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Man With No Face Fears His Unborn Child Will Look The Same
Mohammad Latif Khatana, 32, from Kashmir, India, cannot see or work due to the severe creases on his face.
Strangers spit on the road as he walks, disgusted by his features.
He is now over the moon that his wife is seven months pregnant, but worried his son or daughter will look like him.
He said: “I cannot wait to be a father and have some happiness in my life. But I worry every day and pray my child is not born like me.”
Latif, who lives high in the mountains with his 25-year-old wife Salima, in Tuli Bana, in Jammu and Kashmir, travels to Srinagar for four months of the year to beg and find money.
He was born with a small lump on his face but it has continued to grow and form huge flaps across his face, making it impossible for him to see. He said: “My mother still cries when she looks at me. She feels so much guilt and cannot understand why her youngest boy was cursed.”
Latif is the youngest of two brothers and three sisters and is the only child suffering this condition.
Without his siblings he would’ve lived a very lonely childhood without friends.
“Nobody wanted to play with me as a child,” he added. “The boys in my village used to beat me and taunt me every day. I lost my left eye when I was eight years old and they used to call me one-eye freak.”
As an adult Latif has continued to face many struggles. He is a strong man but because of his failing eyesight and facial condition no-one will give him a job.
He said: “I’d love to do an honest day’s work like a normal man providing for his family. It would make me so proud, but no one will give me a chance. I have to beg and hope people take pity on me so that I can feed my family.” Latif, who sometimes earns 400 Rupees (£5) a day begging, remembers many occasions when people spat on him as they walked past.
He recalled: “Three young girls walked past me once and they spat at my feet and ran away with scarves covering their mouths. I was so embarrassed.
“I was shocked at how cruel they were. I felt very depressed for days. But I had to pick myself up and get on with it.”
However, four years ago Latif finally met the love of his life.
His parents tried hard to find him a wife but no girl would come forward, until Latif heard about Salima.
“My wife has only one foot, and so for many years she struggled to meet a husband. As soon as we met we knew we were right for one another,” he remembers. “We were both medically incomplete, we were a good match.”
They married in a traditional Muslim summer ceremony with 400 guests, in August 2008, and have been very happy ever since.
He added: “I feel very blessed to have met Salima, she is good for me
“I feel a little normal now I have a wife, a little more complete than I did before. And now that she is pregnant with our first child I am even happier. No matter how I look I am a happy man right now.”
But Latif, who is in no pain and takes no medication, still worries his child will be born with the same facial condition.
He said: “We can’t afford to see a doctor now, we’re too poor. And no doctor in the past has told me not to have children. I can only hope and pray that our baby will be healthy.”
Latif’s brother decided to sell some land eight years ago to pay for a trip to send Latif to see a doctor. But there was nothing they could do.
He remembered: “The doctor told me that my condition was due to a solar eclipse when my mother was pregnant with me. I don’t know whether to believe him.
“And now there is so many veins going through my creases that surgery would be too dangerous. I have lost all hope of help.
“This is how I’ll look forever.”
thesun.co.uk
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kakolwe
October 9, 2012 at 4:54 pm
Such are the SAD incidents around earth. Empathy.
Tom Bar Know Call Cheekalah
October 9, 2012 at 5:06 pm
Why havin children? .The best way is for India to declare him a Tourist asset them put him on payroll & see how much some of us will fly to see him as we fed up of seein lions,monkeys,elephants & hungry hynenas(HH).
Elephant Man
October 10, 2012 at 12:56 am
are you still making babies? Maybe one of yours should look that. It would be good for zambias tourist attraction. id!ot
Tom Bar Know Call Cheekalah
October 10, 2012 at 7:18 am
@Elephant Man..Tomba nsofu chikala.U are the worst blogger I have came across after yo mum’s va.gina…Asss clown faggot feedin on elephant farts mathafacker.Gotta ride yo mum’s pus.sie boat usin yo di.ccck.stany.oko.
Princess
October 9, 2012 at 5:11 pm
Batumfweko nichichani chi mwe?
So
October 9, 2012 at 5:57 pm
Every cloud cloud has a silver lining *jst saying#
Badger
October 10, 2012 at 9:13 am
It sure does
Shameless
October 9, 2012 at 6:06 pm
I hope they will have a health baby and a saviour through that same baby. There is a reason for all things and i believe there is one for this too. God bless this family!
mkonzi
October 9, 2012 at 6:41 pm
Peolpe this is no joking matter. Wish someone could come up with some kind of a solution. Just that I’m hopeless in terms of doing anything about it
Tupac
October 9, 2012 at 7:06 pm
Jehovah may you PLEASE forgive me for all the insults.Olo banitukwane sinizayamba kubwezamo nalekerathu kuchoka lelo.Nizoona ndimwe akuru mulungu.
PornStar
October 9, 2012 at 9:06 pm
I’ll miss the old Tupac. Ulya wine uwansele. Posako amano mwaiche.
Culture
October 9, 2012 at 7:32 pm
Jehova, have mercy on this family. Review yo powers to the people by blesing this family in Jesus name.
Prince TDC
October 9, 2012 at 7:41 pm
@ Tupac! Congrats bt…hope its u doin ths!!!!friends?
Genaro the Analyst
October 9, 2012 at 8:20 pm
Am Sorry man, your child has a greater chance of being normal,yo face development myt be som fom of cancer. Analyse
Mosquito
October 9, 2012 at 8:23 pm
Sympathy,
Lord have mercy on your sevant.
memish
October 9, 2012 at 8:44 pm
@Tupac..may God bless all your days amen
mtototo
October 9, 2012 at 9:46 pm
I’m surprised that some pipo can ridicule this man the way they have. People how can u make fun of out of this condition? Nowonder, God punishes you.
Joe
October 10, 2012 at 12:08 am
Iwe apo,why wa tembenuka anso..mhhmm? Waona kwati mulungu akukonda just becaus su oneka so..koma ulichipuba…
stega
October 10, 2012 at 12:50 am
for every situition God allows on his people there is a reason.Your child will not be affected in any way,i feel 4u so badly just dat ma hands ar too short 2 help u
Elephant Man
October 10, 2012 at 1:01 am
rubbish!
Elephant Man
October 10, 2012 at 1:11 am
You tube has so much footage about people with such conditions, this Indian guy is even lucky he can walk around… in many cases people with Proteus Syndrome “elephant man disease” are worse off than this guy. all the same its not a laughing matter.
Man of God
October 10, 2012 at 7:10 am
God help this family for are the creator king in Jesus’ name.
kelo
October 10, 2012 at 8:53 am
Just last week I was watching on TLC how a man with a similar (but worse than his) problem had a successful operation in the USA. This man should just go there and will have his face back to shape again.
PROGRAME IYA BEST
October 10, 2012 at 9:17 am
@abene tupac his a loving and merciful God
Deejay mac
October 10, 2012 at 9:18 am
God will help.Amen
Sibiligani Walibongani
October 10, 2012 at 1:56 pm
A big congrats to TUPAC my friends, surely i have always hoped that if only one day he could change but and now i have witnessed something out of it. Keep it up my dear and may you always be guided by God as long as you keep praising him. remember your creator while you are still young.
As for the man in the pic, God is the provider of all things. Imagine how many people are in such situations and God still hearken unto them and provide for the daily needs. I can but only wish you and your wife Gods blessings and remember to look up to him always.
mali
October 10, 2012 at 4:02 pm
BUT FOR SURE, INST THIS SAME COUNTRY WE SENT OUT TONGA GENTLE FROM SOUTHERN PROVINCE, CANT THEY SORT OUT THEIR GENTLEMAN, CAN THOSE WHO WORKED ON OUR MANY BE TOUCHED AND WORK ON THIS ONE, U MEAN THERE IS NO TUMFWEKO THERE, OR ANYOTHER EBSITE THAT DISPLAYS FACIAL PROBLEMS LIKE THESE. PLEASE GUYS IN INDIA HELD YOUR OWN AS WELL.