An 18-year-old Texas man with autism is facing permanent blindness after a bully threw drain de-clogger into his eyes.
Brody Morgan, who is currently in a burn unit, was walking on the street when his supposed friend Branden Jolly came up with a stolen package and opened it to find a tube containing a powder the boys couldn’t identify.
Jolly spilled the powder on Morgan’s shirt leading the teen to push him away. That’s when Jolly allegedly threw the powder back on Morgan, this time, onto his face.
Morgan’s mother recalled the horrific moment he returned home screaming in pain.
She initially thought it was only salt in his eyes and tried to wash them but his condition only got worse.
“It looked like they were bruised, black,” the mother said. “We went into the emergency room, and they immediately realized that it was not salt, and they kept trying to get from me what it was, and I had no idea.”
Hospital staff determined that the powder was actually drain cleaner; Court records said that the packaging clearly mentioned that the powder was drain de-clogger.
Jolly was charged with causing injury to a disabled person. His family claims the incident was accidental but a third teen who witnessed the ordeal said otherwise.
“[Morgan] was saying, ‘You shouldn’t do that. That’s bad.’ Something along those lines…and I think that sort of irritated them. These boys knew Brody had autism,” Morgan’s mom said.
