As Muthart came to this conclusion, a man she’d been staying with, who happened to have a Biblical name, drove by and called out.
Taking this as a sign, she gorged her eyes out of their sockets by pushing her thumb, pointer, and middle finger into each eye – the drugs numbing any pain. This extreme act led to a rare case of self-enucleation, often cited in psychiatric malpractice case law and medical trauma liability reviews.
Muthart’s screams of “I want to see the light!” were heard by a pastor who restrained her from continuing the attack on herself.
He later said she was still holding onto her eyeballs when he found her, although squished they were somehow still attached to her head.
Emergency Intervention and Long-Term Care
When paramedics arrived, Muthart was sedated and airlifted via helicopter to Greenville Memorial Hospital in South Carolina — a facility equipped for severe psychiatric trauma and emergency surgical care, typically billed at high hospital costs often covered under catastrophic health insurance plans.
While this was all happening, her mom was on her way to the courthouse attempting to get her committed. She was too late.
