He had signs of hanging and his family believes that he made a dangerous challenge known as the “blackout challenge”, which has already caused other deaths in the world.
Source: Clarin
A tragic event moves the province of Santa Fe: a 12-year-old girl she was found dead in her bedroom. The tests confirmed that he died of hanging and no signs of abuse or third-party involvement were found. His family points to a dangerous viral challenge on TikTok.
The incident happened in the town of Captain Bermudez and it came to light after the victim’s aunt made a post on her Facebook account telling what had happened and alerting other parents.
It is that as detailed by the user Laura Luque, her niece miracles He died while trying to carry out a risky challenge on the social network that is all the rage among the youngest.
Santa Fe: a 12-year-old girl died after performing a viral Tik Tok challenge.
“Hello everyone. My name is Lali. I make public what I am living. She is miracles (referring to a photo that accompanies the post), my little niece, who today (for the last Friday) lost his life doing a TikTok challenge. Please I ask you to share. My family and I have no consolation,” the woman published along with an image of the girl.
As confirmed to Clarion sources of the case, Milagros she was found dead in her room. An investigator with access to the cause confirmed that the preliminary autopsy report revealed that death was caused by “mechanical asphyxiation by hanging” and that “there are no signs of abuse or intervention by third parties.”
Although from the Justice they do not confirm or rule out the hypothesis of the viral challenge -and from the legal point of view the fact is part of an alleged suicide-, they reported that the girl’s cell phone was kidnapped since he was at the scene of the event.
The challenge referred to by the victim’s aunt is known as blackout challengewhich consists of holding your breath for as long as possible.
The dangerous target is faint from lack of air to later be able to tell the experience on the platform characterized by its short videos where users share stories, do dances, recipes, among other content.
The school the girl attended echoed the tragedy and shared a statement about it.
“As an educational community we accompany the family of our student Milagros Soto in this terrible moment. We will always remember Mili as a great student, companion, sweet, good and kind. RIP and shine for her the light that has no end”, says the document signed on behalf of the school No. 23 “Tte. Gen. Pablo Riccheri”.
The statement from the school the victim attended.
The investigation of what happened was carried out by the Public Prosecutor’s Office (MPA), through prosecutor Juan Carlos Ledesma.
Two other deaths from the same challenge
The two girls, aged eight and nine, died while participating in a “blackout challenge” that went viral on TikTok last year, claiming the lives of several children.
The families of the victim sued the social network for the deaths and filed a complaint in which they explained both cases.
One is that of Lalani Erika Renee Walton, an eight-year-old girl from Texas, died on July 15, 2021 in what police determined was “a direct result of attempting the TikTok blackout challenge.”
It is about a minor who often posted videos of herself singing and dancing, hoping to become “famous on TikTok”.
“She also believed that if she posted a video of her doing the Blackout Challenge, she would become famous, so she decided to give it a try,” the complaint explains. And she adds: “Lalani was eight years old and she did not appreciate or understand the dangerous nature of what TikTok was encouraging her to do.”
The other victim named in the lawsuit was nine-year-old Arriani Jaileen Arroyo, who received a phone when she was seven and “little by little became obsessed” with posting dance videos on TikTok and became “addicted” to the app.
On February 26, 2021 Arroyo was found not breathing by her five-year-old brother and could not be resuscitated.
