Be еще sensitive with my son: Angry mother says people 'tut' at her blind toddler as they assume his white cane is a toy

When impatient shoppers see little Oscar O'Sullivan-Hughes using his white cane, they assume it is just a toy and tut disapprovingly at him.

But two-year-old Oscar was actually left blind at birth due to a rare genetic defect.

Now his parents have spoken out to raise awareness of child blindness.

Oscar, who lives with parents Kate Hughes and Anthony O'Sullivan in Wythenshawe, Manchester, has Lebers Congenital Amaurosis.

Ms Huges, 30, said: 'Oscar's used the cane since he's been...