Ankur Desai
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I would have done anything to get the medicine for Khalil.
The child is directed on camera to plead for help.
I want to be a normal kid.
I want to go to school.
They were going to upload it to social media.
Millions of dollars pour in, but the families never receive the money.
He told us it wasn't successful.
As I understood it, the video just didn't make any money.
World of Secrets, the child cancer scam from the BBC World Service.
Listen now wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
Even if you've never heard of London's Lindo Wing, you might well have seen a photo of it.
It's the maternity ward where Kate Middleton and before her, Princess Diana and Princess Anne have given birth to royal babies.
And hours later, tradition is they pose with their newborn on the steps.
But that image of an immaculately presented mother and child is a world away from many women's experience of childbirth.
Our reporter Will Chalk has been finding out about a piece of public art designed to address that imbalance.
She's called Mother Verite.
She's a seven foot tall sculpture made of bronze depicting a woman wearing only a pair of disposable postpartum underwear over a still swollen belly, cradling a newborn child to her breast.
The bodies of more than 40 real new mothers were scanned to create the figure and the very first place she was put on display was here at the Lindo Wing.
Her message isn't lost on the mothers I speak to.
I love to see a real woman because we're not all skinny, flashing back to our own body as soon as we pop the baby out.