Postal Police: You can't leave a child alone on TikTok
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January 22, 2021
The Guarantor for the protection of personal data "has ordered against Tik Tok the immediate blocking of the use of the data of users for whom the age of the registry has not been ascertained with certainty".
This was announced by a note from the Authority, which "has decided to intervene as a matter of urgency following the terrible story of the 10-year-old girl from Palermo".
The girl would have suffocated to death following a social challenge.
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checks Her organs will save the lives of 4 children.
"We chose to say yes to the donation because our daughter would have said 'yes, do it'. She was a generous child. And since we can no longer have her with us, we thought it right to help other people", still in shock, the little girl's parents 10 years old who died of suffocation yesterday in Palermo tell about their choice.
Immediately after hearing from the doctors that there was nothing more to be done and that the child had been declared brain dead, they agreed to the removal of the organs.
The sample was taken at the Children's Hospital: the liver, which was divided in half and intended for two small patients, the kidneys and the pancreas.
"In this moment of great pain - says the coordinator of the Regional Transplant Center, Giorgio Battaglia - I express to the family our condolences and our closeness. A few days after the yes to the donation expressed by a mother in the excruciating pain of the loss of her daughter , today we had another example of the great generosity and solidarity of two splendid parents who made it possible to save four other children ".
"We are very tried - says Tania Lazzaro, director of pediatric resuscitation at the Children's Hospital - because in a few days we have experienced two tragedies. For both cases I feel I can say that these couples of parents, after their heroic act, have reviewed their daughters lying not on a death bed but on a bed of life. This is the common link linked to the gift. We are all tried ".
He would have participated in the Black out challenge
A senseless death that of the little girl from Palermo perhaps killed by a crazy challenge on Tik-Tok, the Chinese social network very popular among teenagers all over the world.
He would have participated in the Black out challenge, an absurd competition in which the winner is whoever resists the longest after tightening a belt around his neck.
The little girl from Palermo was found in the bathroom with a bathrobe belt wrapped around her throat and hooked to a radiator.
Her parents took her to the hospital, but the brain damage due to the lack of oxygen immediately appeared very serious.
The Prosecutor's Office of Palermo and the Prosecutor's Office for Minors, who are investigating by instigating suicide against unknown persons, have ordered the autopsy.
The exam will take place tomorrow at the Forensic Medicine Institute of the Polyclinic.
The girl had several profiles on FB and Tick-Tok and with the mobile phone, which was seized and from which the investigators hope to acquire important elements to understand what happened, the video of the last moments of the child's life could have been recorded. then had to end up on the Chinese social network as proof of participation in the challenge.
Today, a banner was hung on the balcony of the Perez Calcutta state comprehensive school in via Maqueda, in the historic center of Palermo, frequented by the girl.
"Hello, for years we have held your hand, now we will hold you in our hearts" it was written.
"I met the little girl's classmates this morning. I reiterated to them the danger and pitfalls they hide on social media. I tackled the issue of death that is not perceived by the boys. I found them upset. Our task is to stay their neighbors in this difficult time ", says the head teacher Laura Pollichino.
"This morning Minister Lucia Azzolina called me. I reiterated to the representative of the government, the extreme anger for what happened. - she says - The teachers told me that the mother followed her daughter in an attentive and caring way. Unfortunately the news shows that these episodes are not isolated and that if there is no restraint they can repeat themselves ".