This 6-year-old boy has a 4 inch opening across his skull

Six-year-old Pheaktra Pov born with a four-inch deep crack across his entire skull seem not to have any hope of having a better life as his conditions gets worst each day. During mum’s pregnancy, she was warned by medical experts that the baby in her womb had a severe ‘problem with his head’ but little did she know that it was going to be as bad as it is today.

Finally, when she gave birth to him, doctors found out that little Pov had a small crevice on the top of his skull, but could not do anything to get it corrected, as a result, they were sent home.

Shockingly, the hole in his head has continued to get deeper and wider - now stretching from his forehead to the base of his skull on the back of his head.

The situation seem to have defied all medical knowledge and expertise, as they told the parents, of their inability to handle the situation. Nevertheless, the little boy’s grandmother, Thorn Hong, aged 67 is said she is determined to find a lasting solution to the boy’s predicament.

Every week, she wheels Pheaktra to the Angkor Watt temple in Siem Reap province, Cambodia, to beg for aids for her grandson, scraping together about £5 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.

"Pheaktra was born with a crack in his head and it’s getting bigger all the time. I can put my hand inside the middle, it is very big.

"Pheaktra’s father left before he was born so it’s just me and my daughter who take care of him. Doctors do not know what has caused this and they said there is nothing they can do.

"Until he was five-years-old it seemed like there was water inside his head and it was swelling and getting bigger.

"I get about $10 to $25 a week from people at the Angkor Watt temple when I go on a Friday, Saturday and Sunday."

Local charities supply free medicine to Pheaktra but it is to prevent seizures and has no effect on the bizarre crack in his head.

Thorn added: "The children’s hospital give us some medicine but it is just to make Pheaktra feel better. We pray everyday for somebody in the world that knows how to fix this."