{"id":7729,"date":"2022-11-07T14:38:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T13:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/07\/archie-battersbees-mother-asks-coroner-to-examine-role-of-tiktok-in-death\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:38:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T13:38:04","slug":"archie-battersbees-mother-asks-coroner-to-examine-role-of-tiktok-in-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/07\/archie-battersbees-mother-asks-coroner-to-examine-role-of-tiktok-in-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Archie Battersbee\u2019s mother asks coroner to examine role of TikTok in death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Hollie Dance believes 12-year-old was \u2018influenced, persuaded or peer-pressured\u2019 into taking part in online challenge<\/p>\n<p>The mother of Archie Battersbee, the 12-year-old boy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2022\/aug\/06\/archie-battersbee-boy-at-centre-of-legal-battle-over-life-support-dies\">who died in August<\/a> after his life support was switched off, wants a coroner to consider what role exposure to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/tiktok\">TikTok<\/a> videos may have played in his death.<\/p>\n<p>Archie sustained a catastrophic brain injury on 7 April at his home in Southend, Essex, when a ligature was found over his head. His mother, Hollie Dance, believes he was injured as a result of taking part in an internet challenge known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/jul\/05\/tiktok-girls-dead-blackout-challenge\">the \u201cblackout challenge\u201d<\/a> and wants the inquest into his death to scrutinise how social media may have contributed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/nov\/07\/archie-battersbee-mother-asks-coroner-to-examine-role-of-tiktok-in-death\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/73799d4678879bb50719123e070641b68237facc\/66_600_1590_953\/master\/1590.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7f87f00da2390fbb7b273a07402f2afd\" title=\"Archie Battersbee\u2019s mother asks coroner to examine role of TikTok in death\" \/>Exclusive: Hollie Dance believes 12-year-old was \u2018influenced, persuaded or peer-pressured\u2019 into taking part in online challenge<br \/>\nThe mother of Archie Battersbee, the 12-year-old boy who died in August after his life support was switched off, wants a coroner to consider what role exposure to TikTok videos may have played in his death.<br \/>\nArchie sustained a catastrophic brain injury on 7 April at his home in Southend, Essex, when a ligature was found over his head. His mother, Hollie Dance, believes he was injured as a result of taking part in an internet challenge known as the \u201cblackout challenge\u201d and wants the inquest into his death to scrutinise how social media may have contributed. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Hollie Dance believes 12-year-old was \u2018influenced, persuaded or peer-pressured\u2019 into taking part in online challenge The mother of Archie Battersbee, the 12-year-old boy who died in August after his life support was switched off, wants a coroner to consider what role exposure to TikTok videos may have played in his death. Archie sustained a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/07\/archie-battersbees-mother-asks-coroner-to-examine-role-of-tiktok-in-death\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Archie Battersbee\u2019s mother asks coroner to examine role of TikTok in death<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7729"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}