Four-year-old hugs the security guard trying to search him

A four-year-old Ashburton boy has melted the hearts of the cricket-going public.

The boy was being checked by security at the MCG on Wednesday night, but didn’t know how to respond to the guard’s signals.  

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‘It was one of those moments that was just so powerful,’ the boy’s father, Thomas Reeh, told Nick McCallum.

‘It was special to witness that nobody’s born to hate.’