A nine-year-old girl has become the youngest victim of the NekNomination drinking craze.
The girl, Rhiannon Scully was hospitalised after downing a cocktail of vodka and whisky that was forced on to her by friends who had seen similar stunts on Facebook.
Scully was found riding home ‘all over the place’ on her electric scooter and still in her school uniform by her horrified mother, who picked her up and called an ambulance.
She later had to have her stomach pumped and was monitored overnight in a hospital.
Policed confirmed that both Scully’s family and her friends’ families were questioned about the incident but decided no action was required.
Michelle, 32, Scully’s mother, claimed that the drinking dare was filmed on a mobile phone but deleted soon after. The alcohol was taken from a cupboard at her friend’s house without the knowledge of any parent.
Scully, a primary school student from Leadgate, County Durham, is the youngest person linked to the deadly drinking game that has now become a global craze and sees people being filmed while performing crazy challenges.
Mrs. Scully said she found her daughter with her eyes rolling into the back of her head after the drinking dare.
She said: “When I saw her I was raging, I was upset and angry. I was also scared because we didn’t know what would happen at this point.
“I saw her in her uniform with two other friends. I ran to her, she was falling over and she didn’t know where she was. She could have been run over, she was riding her scooter at the time.”
Mrs. Scully said she and her husband Paul, 39, believed that their daughter had drunk vodka and whisky mixed together with orange juice after being encouraged by her two friends, also aged nine.
The unemployed mother said the doctor calculated she had drunk around half a pint of the concoction.
‘”Even a fully grown adult would hesitate to mix vodka and whisky,’”she said. “She was being sick in the bathroom before the paramedics got there.
“We found out in the ambulance that it was a NekNomination. Rhiannon said ‘them stupid NekNominations’. She added: “I wouldn’t like to see this happen to any other child and I wouldn’t wish the feeling I felt as a parent on my worst enemy.
“They need to teach children in schools the dangers of alcohol.”
Her husband Paul added: “Rhiannon was on a drip all night and had to have her stomach pumped.”
Medics alerted police to the incident last month and the family then received a visit from officers. The NekNominate craze is only thought to have started in January this year in Perth, Australia, but has quickly spread via social media.
It is a drinking game in which people post videos of themselves on Facebook and other social media sites drinking dangerous and bizarre concoctions of alcohol and then dare their friends to outdo them.
