A COUPLE have been charged with child sex abuse after their baby son suffered horror injuries so severe surgeons had to fit him with an artificial anus.

The parents - who we are not naming to help protect the child's identity - allegedly abused the tot at their home in the city of Ludwigshafen, Germany.

2 The couple have been charged with grievous bodily harm and sexual abuse Credit: Central European News

The mother is accused of causing the boy severe internal injuries when he was just six weeks old.

Chief prosecutor Hubert Stroeber said: “She wanted to get sexual satisfaction.”

The father also allegedly took part in the abuse of the boy, causing a "bloody wound" in the baby's genital area as well as a “visible and painful bruise”, according to prosecutors.

The couple took the baby to a hospital where doctors detected severe peritonitis, the inflammation of the peritoneum typically caused by the rupture of an abdominal organ.

Shocked medics also found the baby to suffering from a skull injury, a cerebral haemorrhage, fractured ribs, bruising to the lungs and heart, and bleeding from the eyes.

They also suspected that the tot suffered from older fractures.

According to local media, the baby required emergency surgery and an artificial anus as a result of the horrific injuries.

Mr Stroeber added: “Even professionals in my public prosecutor's office were shocked.”

The little boy, who is now seven months old, is currently living with a foster family.

Family and friends told local media the mum had shown signs of cruelty even as a child when she had allegedly tortured two guinea pigs to death.

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The couple met in November 2017, and she soon became pregnant before delivering a healthy baby boy at the end of August last year.

They have been detained in custody since last November.

The public prosecutor's office has now charged them with grievous bodily harm and sexual abuse. Their trial is scheduled for May.