It seems to me to be a quest to eliminate other hypotheses of what happened.
Were her injuries consistent with another person glassing her?
How was the glass smashed? On her eye socket or elsewhere?
An expert should be able to tell us.
However it happened, its a nasty injury, they have to pick glass fragments out of the skin over a period of time. Thats why players get fiesty at eye gouges. Its a sensitive area.
Those with long-term damage, they can suffer mental problems and can require plastic surgery.
Our friends at wiki say:
Effects of eye injury
- Closed globe injury or Non-penetrating trauma: The eye globe is intact, but the seven rings of the eye have been classically described as affected by blunt trauma.
- Perforating trauma: The globe integrity is disrupted in one place and may be associated with prolapse of internal contents of the eye.
- Penetrating trauma: The globe integrity is disrupted in two places (through and through injury). This is a quite severe type of eye injury.
- Blowout fracture of the orbit is caused by blunt trauma, classically described for fist or ball injury, leading to fracture of the floor or medial wall of the orbit due to sudden increased pressure on the orbital contents.
Other clues to what happened will be found on-scene.
The media has reported a large amount of glass fragments found in the bed.... that suggests that the incident happened there.
Now thats a confined space.
The wound appears to wrap around her eye, meaning that at some stage the glass was horizontal to her face. So we can eliminate it falling onto her, unless it was on top of the wardrobe, which is not a convenient place to site a glass.
Is the injury consistent with her falling over and her eye hitting the glass that was on the bedside table or on the floor?
The depth of the gashes may give us an idea of the force used by the girl falling or an arm moving.
It may give us an idea of direction too.
Picture: News Ltd.