“We have no consolation, we gave him so much love…”, said Laura Luque, aunt of a 12-year-old Argentine girl who died doing the challenge.
The aunt of milagros sotothe 12-year-old Argentine girl who died for doing a TikTok challenge, accused that her main suspicion is that “someone encouraged her” his niece to submit to “Blackout Challenge”a dangerous viral challenge that has claimed the lives of several children.
“We have no consolation, we gave her so much love…”, Laura Luque told television in her country, also warning that “I feel that someone encouraged her”.
According to Laura, there is a complete video of the “Blackout Challenge” (or “blackout challenge”) that ended with the death of her niece. “Milagros did the challenge twice and on the third time she mightn’t get the rope off her neck”recounted.
It is there that he launched his suspicion: “I feel that someone else encouraged her in the environment of friends.” “We have many doubts regarding everything that happened to him. She was a very smart girl. She suffered a lot of bullying, she told us that no one wanted her at school because they said she pretended to be pretty, because she was blonde and had light blue eyes, ”she recalled.
What does the “Blackout challenge” consist of?
The “Blackout challenge”, also known as the “suffocation challenge” or “fainting challenge”, consists of holding your breath for as long as possible, using the necessary implement, such as ropes, elastics or belts.
The main -and dangerous- objective has to do with passing out from lack of air and then telling what they felt on TikTok.
“What actually happens in the brain is a starvation of oxygen similar to when someone is drowning, suffocating or having cardiac arrest,” Dr. Nick Flynn explained to Irish Examiner. “If you have low oxygen to your brain for more than three minutes, you can have brain damage, and if you have low oxygen to your brain for more than five minutes, it can lead to death,” she added.
In March 2021, a 12-year-old American boy, Joshua Haileyesus, was left brain dead following completing a controversial TikTok challenge. Haileyesus was found in the bathroom of his house by his older brother, with a belt still around his neck.
Due to the irreversible damage caused by the loss of oxygen in his body, his family decided to disconnect him from his artificial respirator weeks later.
Prior to that, another case of a 10-year-old girl had shocked Italy. The student passed away following performing the same challenge and it was her five-year-old sister who found her unconscious. This led to the Italian government itself banning the TikTok social network for children under 13, one of the most influential groups in society.
In August 2022, the parents of the little Archie Battersbee received authorization from the English justice to disconnect the child, who was in a coma following attempting the dangerous Blackout Challenge, putting an elastic around his neck to stop breathing.
What is known regarding the Milagros case?
According to the results of the tests, the girl lost her life by hanging and no signs of abuse or participation of third parties were detected.
Laura Luque was the one who alerted everyone to the fact on her Facebook account so that parents are aware of what their children might be subjected to.
At the moment, the case is being investigated for an alleged suicide, but the Justice seized the victim’s cell phone, because it was in his bedroom.
