The 6-year-old boy, whose eyes were gouged out by a suspect still at large, is undergoing treatment at a local hospital in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province on Tuesday. Photo: CFP

Police in North China's Shanxi Province are on a manhunt for a woman who gouged out the eyes of a 6-year-old boy, and offered a 100,000 yuan ($16,335) reward for information leading to the arrest of the suspect.

Police initially ruled out the possibility of organ trafficking.

The boy, surnamed Guo, was lured by an unknown woman on Saturday evening into a field, where she gouged out his eyes.

The current condition of the boy is stable but he will suffer from a permanent loss of vision, according to Yang Caizhen, office director of the Shanxi Eye Hospital.

"Our hospital has provided the best treatment we can. Due to uncertainty, we cannot provide exact details about further treatment," Yang told the Global Times.

"We will arrange psychological counseling for him based on his condition," Yang added.

The boy has not been told of his loss of vision yet. "When he asked why it is black outside, the family only told him that his eyes were injured and were wrapped up with gauze. We don't know how to explain the whole thing to him," a relative of the boy told the Beijing Youth Daily.

The boy said that a woman with a non-local accent called his name and asked him if anybody in his home played mahjong before taking him to the field, according to his mother Wang Wenli.

"We had no disputes with anybody," said Wang, adding that neither she nor her husband, both peasants, had any idea what had driven the criminal to commit the act.

"The suspect has committed a crime of intentional injury, and the punishment will be very severe, as the victim is underage and the suspect caused permanent damage," said Liu Tao, an associate professor of the criminal investigation department at the People's Public Security University of China.

Global Times