Amputee toddler takes first steps

A three-year-old English toddler has taken her first steps with her prosthetic leg.

Marnie Allen-Tomlinson had her lower left leg amputated in October after enduring years of agony.

After being diagnosed with pseudarthrosis, she underwent surgery to fuse the bone back together but it failed to work.

Pseudarthrosis is a condition that leaves one prone to breakages and a complication of the genetic disorder neurofibromatosis, which leads to tumours growing on nerve tissue.

Marnie’s parents decided, after being advised by doctors, that the only way Marnie would lead a normal life was to undergo the amputation.

One month after the surgery, Marnie was fitted with her prosthetic and is able to walk again for the first time.