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29 March 2024

Abandoned, bullied... Chinese ‘wolf girl’ hopes for fur cure

Six-year old Liu Jiangli suffers from a rare condition that covers her body in thick black fur. Photo: Whatsondalian

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A rare condition that left a six-year old Chinese schoolgirl covered in black fur may now be curable.

As the picture of this girl went viral over theweekend, news reports emerged that specialists have finally offered her a treatment and hope.

The story is tragic because Liu Jiangli was reportedly abandoned by her parents because of this coating of thick black fur on her face and most of her body.

As an orphaned child she was then bullied.

Left at a nursery by her father, the toddler's grand-uncle came forward to look after her.

He was quoted in news reports as saying that she has been unable to make friends because other children are frightened of her.

Some news sites reported Lui's rare condition as similar to Hypertrichosis Universalis, a one-in-a-billion syndrome that completely covers sufferers' bodies in thick hair.

Brit mom pregnant with 12th child

She is being called Britain’s busiest mother and is now pregnant with her 12th baby.

According to the Daily Mail, Tania Sullivan, 37, is four months pregnant just months after giving birth to twins.

The report also stated that she does not collect benefits to support her ever-growing brood, never hires a babysitter and home schools all her children.

Her children have been names as Ben, aged 19, Stephanie, aged 18, Caitlin, aged 12, Harry, aged nine, Eddie, aged seven, Sid, aged six, Patrick, aged five, Oliver, aged three, Joseph, aged one, Anne and Libby, aged eight months and the new baby is expected December.

Sullivan and her husband Mike, 39, have a 17-seater minibus to cope with the demands of their children .

The family also eat 20 loaves of bread and 50 pints of milk a week.

Cops mistaken for strippers

AUSTRALIA: Police narrowly escaped an undressing after stumbling into a rowdy hens' night in northern Australia where they were mistaken for strippers by the bride-to-be and her friends.

The male officers attended Darwin's Humpty Doo Tavern after reports of a disturbance and were greeted by an enthusiastic group of women who shouted that the strippers had arrived and tried to pull their shirts off.

"The girls were in fine form," Northern Watch Commander Louise Jorgensen told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. "They were most excited about the police presence.

"There were various shouts about how the strippers had arrived."

Jorgensen said the men "nearly had their shirts torn off, but they managed to escape with their dignity intact". (AFP)