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Heartbreaking Loss: 8-Year-Old Dies After Participating In Deodorant Challenge, Urgent Warning Issued
After allegedly participating in an online deodorant challenge, a girl was discovered dead by her grandfather; her distraught mother has issued an urgent warning.
In her house on the outskirts of Brasilia, Brazil, Sarah Raissa Pereira de Castro was discovered lying unconscious on the sofa while holding a phone and a can of spray.
While rescue personnel frantically attempted to save her life, the girl was sadly discovered “with purple fingers and lips” before being taken to the hospital.
However, Ceilandia Regional Hospital tragically declared Sarah dead three days later.
The pillow she was discovered on was wet with the aerosol spray, according to the results of the police investigation into her death.
Cassio Maurilio, Sarah’s bereaved father, has directed viewers to a video that promotes the risky trend.
Due to the risky online craze, people have sprayed antiperspirant on their skin for as long as they can.
Sarah is believed to have perished as a result of inhaling the fumes from the spray.
The young girl’s heartbroken mum, Maria Fabiana, said, “I left her all ready for school and went to work. The last memory I have of her was in good health.”
“I have another daughter who is 13 years old and she has always been very close to Sarah, always just the two of them, she is very shaken.”
“So, I have to stay strong to help her, even though I am dying, along with Sarah.”
Police confiscated the phone. According to Globo, Sarah was utilizing to determine who made and distributed the purported video that the young child viewed.
A person found responsible might be prosecuted with double-qualified homicide and, if convicted, could get a heavy penalty of up to 30 years in prison, according to local officials.
The absence of filters on social media platforms to shield kids from potentially harmful online trends has been criticized by Sarah’s father.
Cassio said, “These platforms, which are there, full of children watching, full of life to live, have no filter.”
“Why are there no filters for children’s videos?”
On Monday, young Sarah was laid to rest, and her mother issued a terrifying caution to parents of small children.
She said, “Watch your children. The internet killed my daughter.”
Sarah’s school was closed for a day in remembrance of her passing, and instructors and pupils paid their respects to her.
Sarah was recognized as a “memorable student” by one of her teachers.
Izabella Nogueira said, “A very affectionate, very calm girl, who captivated everyone every day.”
“We taught them to dream, to spread their wings. And now we have to hand it over to God.”
Sarah’s cause of death has been determined by an autopsy report, which police are now processing.
It follows other children who suffered in previous years as a result of deodorant-related problems.
In May 2022, 14-year-old Giorgia Green suffered a cardiac arrest after spraying deodorant in her bedroom.
Additionally, experts urged parents to warn their children about the dangerous “deodorant challenge” that swept the nation in 2018.
After participating in the dangerous trend, schoolchildren were reportedly showing up at school with sobbing burns on their arms.
In May, a Year 10 student suffered burns after playing with a friend.
Jamie Prescott, a mother from Bristol, said that her daughter Ellie, 15, had an injury that was invisible until it began “weeping excessively.”
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