Baby Flashbanged by Cops Has Surgery Delayed Due to Worsening Health

Worsening health postponed surgery to repair the deep chest wound caused when a flash-bang grenade landed on thew child’s pillow in the play-pen where he was sleeping. He also suffered severe burns on his head and face.

“Right now the focus is prayers for the child,” Davis said. “His fevers have been spiking. He is not out of the woods yet.”

[...]Bou Bou is in a medically induced coma in the Grady Memorial Hospital burn unit and breathing on a ventilator because a lung has stopped working, said his mother, Alecia Phonesavanh

Doctors said he had a 50 percent chance of survival, family members said.