Boy Blistered after Licking Used Condom, Grandma Says

[JohnSmith2007 353]

Boy Blistered after Licking Used Condom, Grandma Says

Published : Wednesday, 25 Aug 2010, 12:28 PM CDT

ATLANTA - A Georgia woman said a weekend outing turned into a horrifying experience when her young grandson developed blisters after he found a used condom in their hotel room and put it in his mouth.

According to Carmen Jones, the incident happened on Aug. 1 at the Wyndham Gardens hotel in downtown Atlanta, where she had taken the boy and his cousin for a weekend of family fun.

"We wanted to do something for them for the weekend before they started school," Jones said. "The plan was we were doing Six Flags on Saturday and the aquarium on Sunday."

After a full day at the theme park on July 31, Jones said, the exhausted family returned to the hotel.

Jones said at first glance room 329 looked perfectly clean, except that there was no soap and no towels.

Then, she said, she noticed something more troubling. "I'm like, 'Girl, you know, these sheets don't smell clean,'" Jones said.

The next morning, Jones said, she awoke to a horrifying scene.

"When I looked at my grandson, he had a used condom all down his throat -- his tongue in it everything. And there was semen in the condom," she said.

Jones immediately took the condom out of the boy's mouth and called hotel management., she said.

Days later the child developed a fever, Jones said.

"That's when I had seen the open blisters inside of his mouth, inside of the bottom lip, all on his tongue," Jones said.

The boy is being tested for STDs and HIV but Jones' attorney said the family is awaiting the results before deciding how to proceed.

The hotel said it is examining the police report before providing further comment.

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[Nagishkaw 510]

[JohnSmith2007 353]

I hope it was a reaction to latex and not something much worse that is causing the blisters. The poor grandma, I can't imagine what she is going through right now.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

bet she won't stay at a $19.99 a night hotel again.....

[nab 74]

oh what a horrifying experience!

[JohnSmith2007 353]

bet she won't stay at a $19.99 a night hotel again.....

It was the Wyndham Gardens hotel in downtown Atlanta. Those are generally higher end hotels.

[Ban Hammer 13,344]

i hear a maid being fired.

[natty bumppo 297]

i hear a maid being fired.

the thread reminds me of those wonderful experiences when i traveled a lot ...

just had a flashback of one of those "room presents" i discovered at an embassy suites in tulsa ... it was rather disgusting ....

Edited August 26, 2010 by frank bama

[Obama 2012 1,714]

I can totally imagine the woman saying that, rolling her neck, and snapping her fingers. Ohhh so wrong.

OK, If the kid is old enough to go to Six Flags, he's at least 8 years old, probably 11-12. In what universe is the first thing to go through your mind when you find a slimy condom in a hotel room, is to put it in your mouth and down your throat. They should get that kid tested for down syndrome.

If it is an older child, I would almost call BS on the story then too. Probably planted it themselves so they could sue someone....

[mawilson 2,133]

Hello herpes!

[HAL 9000 96]

Hello herpes!

That's what it appears to be... fever... blisters... yikes!

That sucks...

[Ban Hammer 13,344]

Hello herpes!

unlikely - from exposure to displaying symptoms in less than a day?

That's what it appears to be... fever... blisters... yikes!

That sucks...

time for you to reboot.

[IncorrectPolitics 26]

OK, If the kid is old enough to go to Six Flags, he's at least 8 years old, probably 11-12. In what universe is the first thing to go through your mind when you find a slimy condom in a hotel room, is to put it in your mouth and down your throat. They should get that kid tested for down syndrome.

The kid was probably autistic or something, autism is rampant these days. At that age I probably wouldn't have known what a condom was and thought it was a balloon but if it had slimy junk in it I would have avoided it like the plague. Also most likely it was a latex allergy causing the blisters.....I noticed another poster said herpes but I believe herpes has a longer incubation period.

Latex allergy blisters

[HAL 9000 96]

unlikely - from exposure to displaying symptoms in less than a day?

time for you to reboot.

The symptoms usually are supposed to break out within a couple of weeks AFAIK. Maybe the kid is immunocompromised in some capacity?

Similar viruses I work with in lab can begin replicating and expressing their reporter proteins in a matter of hours at the site of intended infection. And this is 1µl of virus/10g tissue infected. Imagine (ewwww) what kind of viral load is contained in a used condom.

But its most likely a latex allergy, which isn't unheard of.

[Ban Hammer 13,344]

latex allergy is the first thing that came to my mind.