A grieving mom has revealed how her son died in entrance of his buddies whereas trying a lethal TikTok choking problem.
Leon Brown, of Cumbernauld, Scotland, was simply 14-years-old when he was discovered unresponsive in his bed room after reportedly trying the identical harmful TikTok development as Archie Battersbee.
His heartbroken mom, Lauryn Keating, issued a warning to fellow mother and father after her son’s good friend revealed he had needed to duplicate the choking sport after seeing it on the video-sharing app.
She claims Leon’s buddies had been watching him try the problem through Facetime when tragedy struck and the schoolboy misplaced his life.
The 30-year-old informed the Each day Report: ‘One in every of Leon’s buddies informed me he had been doing the problem on Facetime with them after seeing it on TikTok.
‘Him and his buddies most likely thought it was amusing and a joke. However Leon did not come again round. It went horribly mistaken.
‘I had heard of this problem, due to what occurred to Archie. However you do not count on your individual little one to do it.
‘Please warn them, these on-line challenges aren’t value their lives. They are not value ‘likes’ or no matter they’re doing it for.’
Leon Brown, of Cumbernauld, Scotland, (pictured above along with his mom) was simply 14-years-old when he was discovered unresponsive in his bed room after reportedly trying the identical harmful TikTok development as Archie Battersbee
His heartbroken mom, Lauryn Keating, issued a warning to fellow mother and father after her son’s good friend revealed he had needed to duplicate the choking sport after seeing it on the video-sharing app
Archie Battersbee (pictured), 12, was present in his Essex house with a ligature round his neck in April and have become the topic of a heated authorized battle after medical doctors declared him mind lifeless and finally withdrew life assist
Leon’s family and friends gathered to launch balloons in his reminiscence final week – and hope the teen is given a standing ovation by Celtic followers at their subsequent house sport.
The membership’s well-known package, signed by his buddies, was left mounted on a railing at their native park following the schoolboy’s loss of life.
Ms Keating later mentioned she was shocked when she searched TikTok and located a trove of movies selling comparable choking video games.
She mentioned: ‘I went on TikTok and wrote out phrases much like blackout problem. The quantity of video outcomes that got here up on it’s ridiculous.’
It’s understood Leon’s buddies had been watching him try the problem through Facetime when tragedy struck and the schoolboy misplaced his life
Ms Keating later mentioned she was shocked when she searched TikTok and located a trove of movies selling comparable choking video games. The video-sharing app claims to have eliminated movies of the ‘Blackout Problem’ and put measures in place to forestall customers from looking out the development
The Chinese language-run video sharing app claims to have eliminated movies of the ‘Blackout Problem’ from its platform and has put measures in place to forestall customers from sharing or looking out the development.
A TikTok spokesperson mentioned: ‘Our deepest sympathies exit to Leon Brown’s household throughout this extremely troublesome time.
‘The protection of our neighborhood is our precedence and we take any declare a couple of harmful problem very critically.
‘Content material of this nature is prohibited on our platform and could be eliminated if discovered.’
Leon’s loss of life comes simply weeks after Archie Battersbee’s life assist was eliminated following a protracted authorized battle after the teen had additionally reportedly tried the ‘Blackout Problem’.
The development, which has swept throughout social media and encourages customers to asphyxiate themselves, go out and regain consciousness on digicam, has been linked to the deaths of dozens of youngsters in the US.
Tragic Archie was discovered unresponsive at his house in Southend, Essex on April 7 and spent months clinging to life in an induced coma
His mom, Hollie Dance (pictured above) has publicly shared her perception that Archie’s tragic case started after the schoolboy took half in a lethal on-line ‘Blackout Problem’
Police are understood to be investigating whether or not he had taken half within the harmful craze that’s mentioned to have killed greater than 80 youngsters because it first circulated on-line over a decade in the past.
In July, a lawsuit was introduced in opposition to TikTok by the households of two younger ladies within the U.S. who declare the internet hosting service’s ‘harmful’ algorithms had been guilty for his or her youngsters’s deaths.
Tragic Archie was discovered unresponsive at his house in Southend, Essex on April 7 and spent months clinging to life in an induced coma.
His mom, Hollie Dance, has publicly shared her perception that Archie’s tragic case started after the schoolboy took half in an internet ‘Blackout Problem’.
She demanded family manufacturers like TikTok and Fb take motion on harmful challenges just like the one she says killed her son – the place members strangle themselves with ligatures till they faint.
She mentioned that ‘sick individuals’ are ‘grooming our kids to do these challenges’ in an interview with the Mirror.
‘And it is disgusting. The individuals – they’re typically adults, not youngsters – who’re demonstrating these challenges are sick’, she mentioned.
