Heartless thieves target four-year-old cancer patient
Heartless thieves have ransacked the home of a four-year-old cancer patient, in spite of a sign on the front door that reads: “Welcome. This is the house of a child with leukaemia”.
After breaking into the Alexandra Hills home in Brisbane, the thieves stole approximately $15,000 worth of possessions, including a iPad used by young Eddison, who has been battling cancer for a year, to lift his spirits during chemotherapy treatment.
“He wants to come home and he wants to sleep in his own bed and play with his toys but we can’t,” devastated mother Angie Mitchell said.
Ms Mitchell said it was obvious that a child with cancer lived in the home, as the front room is decorated with photographs of Eddison with a shaved head and tubes in his nose and leukaemia awareness posters.
“They are just lower than scum,” Ms Mitchell said.
“This is the only thing you can see as you walk through our front door.
“It just screams there’s a child with cancer who lives here. You know, it just screams it!”
The thieves turned the house upside down, breaking items which they could not take and leaving Eddison’s medication strewn across the kitchen floor.
“The first thing I checked was if my wedding rings were there and they weren’t,” Ms Mitchell said.
“Everything they couldn’t carry, like the soundbar, or the TV, they just smashed and threw on the ground.
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“I just cried. Everything’s broken.”
The family are insured, but now face the daunting task of cleaning up the mess and assessing damages.
A Queensland Police spokesman told Yahoo7 that no charges have been laid and the investigation is ongoing.
