One-Year-Old Boy Eaten Alive By Crocodile, Dad Seriously Injured

By Abdul Rafay in Heartbreaking On 3rd December 2022
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Despite his father's heroic efforts to fight the 11-foot reptile during a terrifying attack, a one-year-old baby boy was eaten by a crocodile.

As the child's 45-year-old father Moherat was securing their boat at a beach on the Borneo coast, the aggressive reptile leaped out of the water and grabbed the child.

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At around 10.30 am on December 1, witnesses who had witnessed the father and kid being attacked by a crocodile in Lahad Datu, a town in the Malaysian portion of the island, dialed emergency services.

Moherat was saved by the public after sustaining serious head and body injuries that are being treated at Lahad Datu Hospital, according to fire and rescue chief Sumosoa Rashid.

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Sadly, though, the father was powerless to protect his defenseless young child, Rashid continued.

"Despite the man's best efforts he ended up with numerous bite wounds and could not stop his son from being dragged underwater.

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“There are several viral videos showing how the victim (his child) was attacked by the crocodile and then grabbed before being dragged to a nearby river."

Despite extensive search and rescue operations, the toddler is still missing and is presumed dead.

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Although crocodile attacks are still uncommon and isolated, an eight-year-old child had his head bit off by a 12-foot crocodile last month while he was fishing with his family in Costa Rica.

Julio Otero Fernandez was fatally attacked by the animal, and his scared family could only watch helplessly.

A witness to that attack reported: "It shook him and ripped off his little head. Then it grabbed him again and dragged him under."

A 14-year-old girl was also killed by a crocodile in Indonesia in July, this time when she was washing her clothes in the river.