Mum's horror after son impaled on fence spike

A mum believes her eight-year-old lad is 'lucky to be here' after he was impaled by spiked fencing which pierced his kidney.

Adie Morris, from Treorchy in Rhondda, Wales, is now warning parents of the dangers after the incident saw her son Teegun Williams left in hospital for nearly a week. The 29-year-old said her son had climbed a pillar outside a church in Park Road in Cwmparc, Treorchy, when he slipped and fell onto a spiked fence on September 4.

She described being in "complete shock" when medics told her the spike entered 2.5cm (1 inch) into Teegun's skin, damaging his kidney. Adie told WalesOnline: "He was out playing with his friends and was sitting on a little pillar next door to the church.

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"He then slipped and pierced his side on the spike. He pulled himself off and then walked home to tell me what he had done. He came home and he's quite clumsy anyway so I said: 'What have you done now?' and then he turned around and I nearly fainted when I saw all the blood on his back.

"I panicked and was shaking – it was horrific. So much crossed my mind and I was in complete shock. He was clammy, really white, and shaking – he thought he was going to die."

Adie said the family took Teegun to the Royal Glamorgan Hospital that afternoon before he was later taken by ambulance to Noah's Ark Children's Hospital in Cardiff where he stayed until Friday, September 9.

She said: "He had a CT scan to check what he had actually done and they were matching him for bloods just in case he needed a transfusion but luckily he