An Indiana father has been arrested after toxicology reports showed his 8-year-old son died due to ingesting 180 times the lethal dose of methamphetamine thinking it was breakfast.
Curtis Collman III died June 21 after overdosing on meth at the home of his father, Curtis Gilbert Collman, 41 years old. Reports said the boy ingested several grams of meth that were on a plate, thinking it was cereal.
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Jackson County police say Curtis Collman III mistook a stash of the drug found at his father’s home for food while he was staying at the Seymour property on June 21. The methamphetamine was discovered on a plate and eaten by the young boy who subsequently fell extremely ill.
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.
Police said that the powerful illegal stimulant can have a brownish, lumpy appearance which a child could mistake for cereal.
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