10yo Offers Savings For Lost Phone With Dead Mum Pics

Story By: Jonathan MaciasSub EditorJoseph GolderAgency: Central European News 

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This is the moment a poor 10-year-old boy pleads for someone to return his phone and offers his savings as a reward after he accidentally left it in a taxi because it contained photos and videos of his dead mother.

Little Gino Lopez lost his phone when he jumped out of the taxi in the city of Cordoba in the central Argentine province of the same name.

According to local media, Gino’s 22-year-old mother died of leukaemia when he was just over one year old.

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In the footage, the 10-year-old boy says: “I left my phone in a taxi today and it had all the photos and videos of my mum. She died when I was very young.”

The youngster added: “My phone is a Samsung J7 Prime and I do not want to lose it because when I miss her, I watch the videos and I do not want to forget her or her voice.”

At the end of the clip, the boy says: “I will offer my savings as a reward.”

Gino’s grandmother Dora, who was travelling with the boy in the taxi, told local media: “I am sure the taxi driver does not have it because I know him and he is a good person.”

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According to local media, a computer shop owner in the neighbourhood has given the boy a new mobile phone and helped him to recover some photographs of his mum that were uploaded to the cloud.

The shop owner is also offering the same phone model (Samsung J7 Prime) to anyone who returns the boy’s lost phone.

Leukaemia is a type of blood cancer that usually begins in the bone marrow and results in a high number of abnormal blood cells.

The symptoms are bruising, feeling tired, fever and an increased risk of infection.

According to the NHS, 3,100 people are diagnosed with leukaemia in the UK each year and it is most common in people aged over 75.

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