Boy dies after mistaking father's crystal meth for cereal

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Huffington Post

Aug 6, 2018
Curtis Collman III, 8, consumed 180 times the lethal dose of drug

An eight-year-old boy has died after apparently mistaking his father's stash of crystal meth for breakfast cereal, according to US police.

Curtis Collman III died at a medical centre in Indiana after eating a massive quantity of methamphetamine left out on a plate by his father, Curtis Collman II.

According to court documents, on the morning of 21 June "the boy told his father he was hungry and his father told him there was no food and returned to sleep", the Seymour Tribune reports.

The boy then consumed a "staggering" amount of the drug, says the New York Post, a quantity equal to 180 lethal doses.

Read more: http://www.theweek.co.uk/95608/boy-dies-after-mistaking-father-s-crystal-meth-for-cereal

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Curtis Collman II



Curtis Collman III
Rest in Peace

[irisblue]

1. 🕯️

[pandr32]

2. awful

[In_The_Wind]

3. .

[sdfernando]

4. Holy Mutha F#%king S@*T!!!

Some people should never be parents.

Such a cute kid too. Hope this guy burns in hell for all eternity..and I don't even believe in hell.

[benld74]

5. Prayers for the boy

That "father" is another story

[Moostache]

6. I am sickened by this story...

That poor child deserved a better life than to be a footnote in the historical decline and decay of American society circa 2018...I have just one question for all of the "pro-life" asssholes in America..."WHERE THE FUCK WERE YOU TO SAVE THIS BOY?"

I could scream myself hoarse for eons shrieking at the hypocrites and the holier-than-thou BS peddlers when it comes to controlling a woman's body or procreation choices...but when you hear of a tale of inhuman child neglect and endangerment and manslaughter like this, you NEVER find them with anything to say or do about it.

An 8 year old boy died a horrific death and this sick as fuck society will shrug it off and go right on marching towards our own demise, anesthetized to reality and the pain all around us as we blithely check Facebook for "likes" and creepily stalk ex-girlfriends and ex-boyfriends while seeking out the next popular meme or 'challenge'...I have a challenge for the internet...SAVE ONE FUCKING CHILD A WEEK...just ONE...stop the horrors of drug abuse and neglect that hit hardest on the innocents...QUIT POSTING PICTURES OF YOUR FOOD AND START LOOKING AROUND...maybe, just maybe a little boy or girl looking for food may find a helping hand instead of a lethal stash...or maybe everyone will look at this story, react with shock and then within minutes be back to inane voyeurism once more...after all, Curtis was just one boy....at Sandy Hook, 20 children younger than he was, were massacred and butchered and we collectively shrugged and moved on...more zombie-like than human, more callous and less caring...more repugnant and less worthy fo a future devoid of such things...

I hate 21st century society and the raging dumpster fire that it entails...if we can't do any better than this, then the sooner climate change eradicates humanity, the better...is THIS why we never find life from the countless alien worlds in the universe? Are all sentient beings doomed to fall to craven self-centered navel gazing and abject immorality? Once upon a time I believed there MUST be a better example out there among the billions of stars...I used to hope for evidence of it to challenge humanity to improve, to become MORE than just political pawns and consumers and hoarders of resources, wealth and privilege...I was wrong.

So sorry we could have been better and were simply not willing enough to care for you Curtis Collman III, may your spirit find peace after being subjected to such an inhumane end.

[B2G]

7. This is horrible, but

how could one eat 'massive amounts' of crystal meth thinking it was cereal??

Wouldn't just one bite have clued him in? The taste, smell, appearance, something?

I don't get this. Sounds to me like a force-feeding.

[secondwind]

11. Looks to be like the poor kid was starving... :-(

[B2G]

12. I don't care how hungry you are.

No way a child ate that much meth on his own.

No. Way.

[JonLP24]

13. Tastes extremely bitter

No way I can see a kid enjoying that but if he mistook a chunk for a cereal bite it may not take much.

[B2G]

15. 180 times the lethal dose is not one bite.

Not even 2 or 3.

[JonLP24]

17. If it was in a chunk or crystal form could be more than lethal dose

It only takes as less than 100 mg to be flying high. I don't disagree with your theory though because of the castle unless the boy dissolved it in milk and drank it.

[B2G]

19. And then there's this:

"He sought help from a female friend, but when the unidentified woman pleaded with Collman to take his son to hospital, the defandant “allegedly ripped her cell phone away, pointed a gun at her head and screamed ‘I’m not going back to prison’”, the Post reports."

[JonLP24]

20. Definitely not defending him

Just speculating on the scenarios well it certainly looks like he'll be heading to prison.

[NickB79]

30. One cereal spoonful of high-grade meth is a massive dose

It probably only took one bite, especially for how small he was 😥

On edit, I found info online stating 100 mg is lethal in children. 180X that is 18 g, which does sound oddly high for a kid to eat.

[B2G]

31. Yeah. It doesn't add up.

Sounds more like murder to me.

[JDC]

8. Horrible.

[csziggy]

9. A drug dealing parent whose carelessness costs the life of a child

Is sentenced to prison while gun toting parents whose carelessness cost their childrens' lives get sympathy and prayers.



That is unequal prosecution giving favoritism to gun lovers!

Either way I am sad for the children but either way they should have been better protected.

[B2G]

10. I think this is more than 'carelessness'. See my post above. nt

[csziggy]

18. you could be right

[iluvtennis]

14. OMG, so heartbreaking. Hope is prosecuted for his son's death. Just like guns, parents

who have small children and want to do drugs, need to lock that shit up.

[truthisfreedom]

16. The crime was its own punishment, it would seem. Any person with

the slightest bit of conscience would suffer every moment for the rest of their life.

[Downtown Hound]

21. Something else is going on here

Last edited Mon Aug 6, 2018, 02:17 PM - Edit history (1)

I will confess to having experimented with meth (back then we called it speed) in my late teenage years. I only did it a total of four times, and the last time was when I was 19 (I'm 41 now and will never touch the stuff again, and won't even have people in my life that do).

Meth is some seriously nasty tasting shit. I snorted it each time, and could feel it run down my nose and into my throat. It was seriously gross. I can't see how a child would not only mistake it for cereal but eat such a huge amount of it unless the child was starving and had nothing else to eat. Cough medicine tastes great by comparison.

[Flaleftist]

25. If the parents are junkies,

no food in the house to the point a kid is starving can be a very real thing.

[Downtown Hound]

26. Which I'm what I'm thinking

Most parents have a hard enough time getting a child to eat an apple. Getting them to chow down on meth is just not something that comes naturally to any child, unless there's an overriding reason.

[jmbar2]

22. Life insurance?

Did he mix it in with the cereal?

[Judi Lynn]

23. Boy dies after mistaking father's crystal meth for cereal

Boy dies after mistaking father’s crystal meth for cereal
Aug 6, 2018
Curtis Collman III, 8, consumed 180 times the lethal dose of drug



York Regional Police
Crystal meth is a potent, highly addictive and potentially deadly chemical stimulant


An eight-year-old boy has died after apparently mistaking his father’s stash of crystal meth for breakfast cereal, according to US police.

Curtis Collman III died at a medical centre in Indiana after eating a massive quantity of methamphetamine left out on a plate by his father, Curtis Collman II.

According to court documents, on the morning of 21 June “the boy told his father he was hungry and his father told him there was no food and returned to sleep”, the Seymour Tribune reports.

. . .

He sought help from a female friend, but when the unidentified woman pleaded with Collman to take his son to hospital, the defandant “allegedly ripped her cell phone away, pointed a gun at her head and screamed ‘I’m not going back to prison’”, the Post reports.

More:
http://www.theweek.co.uk/95608/boy-dies-after-mistaking-father-s-crystal-meth-for-cereal





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Dad refused to call 911 as son died after mistaking meth for cereal, court docs say
POSTED 11:56 AM, AUGUST 5, 2018, BY TRIBUNE MEDIA WIRE

SEYMOUR, Ind. – An Indiana man refused to call 911 as his 8-year-old son suffered for hours and finally died after mistaking meth for breakfast cereal, according to court documents.

Curtis Collman II, 41, faces numerous counts that include neglect of a dependent causing death, pointing a firearm, possession of methamphetamine and intimidation. after police say his son, Curtis Collman III, ingested a large amount of meth.

Court documents show Collman II first noticed there was something wrong with his son on the morning of June 21. The child woke Collman II up because he was hungry, but Collman II said they didn’t have any food and went back to sleep.

The next time he woke up, Collman II said the boy was “not acting right.” He was “twitching and bouncing his face off the floor,” Collman II said. He tried to hold him down, but the boy kept “grabbing his face and (was) scratching his own face.”

More:
https://wgntv.com/2018/08/05/dad-refused-to-call-911-as-son-died-after-mistaking-meth-for-cereal-court-docs-say/

[Snellius]

28. Above photo is not crystal meth. Looks like raw, unprocessed.

Not a tweaker but know enough friends destroyed by this shit.

[BigmanPigman]

32. I agree.

That photo doesn't look like any of the crystal or crank that I have ever seen. Not only is the appearance odd, but like other posters already said it tastes awful, even the tiniest amount and right away. It also hurts/burns, so that would be a deterrent too.

Poor kid, something isn't right about this.

[Snellius]

33. You could never eat it thinking it was anything like Honey Smacks. You'd spit it out.

His father seems to be a hardcore tweaker. Probably deals. Tweakers are the craziest, crazier than crazy, psychopaths on the face of the earth. Crazy and super-charged active. For days without sleep. Especially if smoked or slammed. Crystal is much different than speed. There's a saying in South America, that you would fuck your mother on meth. Sorry for the language. But it's that horrible. Horrible and true.

[radical noodle]

37. Yeah...

your photo looks more like what I've seen (but I've never seen such a large quantity at one time).

[demigoddess]

24. no words

[Snellius]

27. Impossible! Got to be more to this.

Thinking crystal meth was cereal would be like eating a bowl of salt.

[radical noodle]

36. It's hard to tell

how long since the kid had something to eat. He may have been hungry enough to eat anything. That would be my guess.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

29. The Seymour Tribune is the local newspaper.

They're supposed to be a subscription-required affair. I got right into this.

Judge denies bond reduction request

By Staff Reports - 8/5/18 8:22 PM

Tribune staff reports

Jackson Circuit Judge Richard W. Poynter on Friday denied a bond reduction request from a Seymour man accused of refusing to get his 8-year-old son medical help after the child ingested methamphetamine on June 21.

Curtis Collman, 41, will continue to be held on a $50,000 cash bond at the Jackson County Jail in Brownstown because of Poynter’s decision made Friday. That decision followed a hearing Thursday afternoon on Collman’s request for a bond reduction.

Collman’s trial is set for 9:30 a.m. Dec. 4 in the Jackson Circuit Court. He faces a Level 1 felony charge of neglect of a dependent causing death after he refused to call 911 for his son, Curtis Collman III, and prevented others from calling. A Level 1 felony is punishable by a sentence between 20 and 40 years with an advisory sentence of 30 years.

He also faces felony charges of intimidation, failure to register as a sex offender and possession of methamphetamine along with misdemeanor charges of theft and pointing a firearm at an unarmed person.

[Snellius]

34. "failure to register as a sex offender"? Anything's possible with heavy meth users.

Especially involving sex.

[radical noodle]

35. No surprise there was no food

I've seen this up close and personal, and no child should live with meth users.