Pheaktra Pov was born with the defect after doctors warned mother Srey, 40, when she was seven-months pregnant that her baby a problem with his head.
The youngster had a small crevice on the top of his skull but doctors were baffled and sent them home without any further treatment for the boy.
Shockingly, the slit in his head has continued to get deeper and wider – now covering from his forehead to the base of his skull on the back of his head.
Doctors told Srey that there is nothing they can do but Pheaktra’s grandmother Thorn Hong,67, is determined to find a cure.
His family says they are praying for a cure for their son (Picture: Viral Press)
This six-year-old boy has a four-inch deep crack across his entire skull – that’s getting bigger by the week.
Pheaktra Pov was born with the defect after doctors warned mother Srey, 40, when she was seven-months pregnant that her baby a problem with his head.
The youngster had a small crevice on the top of his skull but doctors were baffled and sent them home without any further treatment for the boy.
Shockingly, the slit in his head has continued to get deeper and wider – now covering from his forehead to the base of his skull on the back of his head.
Doctors told Srey that there is nothing they can do but Pheaktra’s grandmother Thorn Hong,67, is determined to find a cure.
She wheels Pheaktra every weekend to the Angkor Watt temple in Siem Reap province, Cambodia, to beg for donations for her grandson, scarping together about 5gbp a day.
Thorn said: ‘My daughter checked when she was three-months pregnant if anything was wrong and the doctors said everything was fine.
‘But at seven months they said there was a serious problem but it was too late to do anything.
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