After firing her, the family of the 12-year-old girl who died in an alleged TikTok challenge testified at the prosecutor's office: they denounced that she was
instigated by her schoolmates
in a group video call.
This Wednesday they would open the cell phone and they anticipated that it was the third time she had done this practice, the last time she did not survive.
In Capitán Bermúdez, inside the Gran Rosario, Santa Fe, pain goes through all those who knew Milagros and her family.
With schools closed for the summer break and without containment after the tragic event, expectations are set on the judicial investigation.
The case, in charge of prosecutor Juan Carlos Ledesma, from the San Lorenzo decentralized prosecutor's office, found that the girl's death was not caused by the attack of third parties and that she had no previous injuries compatible with any type of abuse.
For them, his death occurred in the context of a suicide.
But the family's statements, which until Tuesday were public but had not been included in the judicial file, went in another direction.
Santa Fe: a 12-year-old girl died after performing a viral Tik Tok challenge
Milagros's mother, father, and aunt gave their testimony before prosecutor Lucente at the San Lorenzo headquarters of the Public Prosecutor's Office.
They were accompanied by psychologists from the team and provided data on "their presumption regarding the motivation of the event."
As they anticipated to
Clarín
, they did not provide concrete information about their statements, but everything will depend on what emerges from the cell phone.
"At the moment there are no indications that are correlative to that line," they said.
"The expertise is carried out on the minor's cell phone awaiting the result. It was confirmed that
there is a video recorded
from the cell phone,"
sources from the investigation told
Clarín .
What does it mean?
The family referenced the "blackout challenge" on TikTok that has already claimed the lives of other kids around the world.
In Río Negro, the same day that Milagros died of mechanical asphyxiation, two other boys suffered the same injuries.
A 13-year-old was found dead along with a friend who was unconscious, they revived him and he was hospitalized in serious condition.
However, at the moment, justice considers it a suicide without the participation of third parties.
In the event that the expert reports verify the complaint by the Santa Fe family, the courts must verify that there were no majors involved in that video call who could be considered criminally responsible for the crime of instigation to suicide, which has sentences of 1 to 4 years. jail.
In the case of minors, classmates, as the family of the deceased girl points out, the juvenile criminal justice system must decide what will happen to the members of that call.
Another element that divides the investigation at this time is the presence of
two other previous videos
in which the girl would have materialized this "challenge".
In those two instances she managed to get out in time and catch her breath.
Not in the third, that she was fatal.
For justice, those could have been failed suicide attempts, but for his family they were part of the same challenge.
The skills could be known this week.
The girl's aunt indicated that after the first studies carried out on the images, the researchers "told her father that she made three attempts, she was able to remove the rope in the first and second, but in the third she could not." as reported by
Telam.
The fact
The Police arrived at the house on Friday at 1:54 p.m., as recorded in the summary.
Around 1:15 p.m., they indicated, the death would have occurred.
Laura Luque is Milagros's aunt and it was her post that triggered the alert:
"Hello everyone. My name is Lali... I make what I am experiencing public. She is Milagros, my little niece... who lost her life today doing a TikTok challenge... please share... my family and I have no consolation..."
, he wrote on Facebook.
When asked by another user, the woman replied:
"Hello. This happened today at noon I can't even write, I just know that until now
her friends challenged her to a TikTok challenge
and she hanged herself as soon as I know more I'm going to share so that what we are experiencing now does not happen to any boy, and neither does his family go through"
.
The woman spoke with Radio 2 of Rosario.
"We decided to talk so that the parents are attentive. The only thing I know is that Milagros was a very intelligent girl, she was very educated by her entire family, by me, by her mother, by her father, she was very aware of what was happening in social networks", began his story.
"My niece was sent a link, a schoolmate. She opened it and was on a video call with her classmates. She did it, there is a video,
she shows herself starting from the beginning until she loses her life
. It's very difficult For us, for her family, because we still don't understand why. She was encouraged, that's the only thing I'm going to say. She was a very intelligent and very happy girl. If someone encouraged her? I'm sure she did," said Laura.
What is the viral challenge
The dangerous "challenge" involves fainting due to lack of oxygen due to suffocation to later be able to recount the experience on the video platform.
According to the preliminary autopsy report, death was caused by "mechanical asphyxiation by hanging" and they confirmed that "there are no signs of abuse or intervention by third parties."
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