A young boy under the influence of methamphetamines gouged out his own eyeballs and ate them in a hospital’s emergency department, a Federal Liberal MP told an ice summit on Friday. The member for Dobell, Karen McNamara, said the disturbing incident happened at Newcastle’s John Hunter Hospital, according to The Daily Telegraph.
Ms McNamara recounted the tale to an audience saying:
“There is nothing at all recreational about this drug,’ Ms McNamara told the summit.Let me tell you a story that demonstrates this … about a young boy taken into an emergency department for treatment who gouged out his own eyeballs and ate themWe have to get these kinds of stories out to young people.”