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OnlinePoker

(5,722 posts)
Wed May 5, 2021, 12:33 AM May 2021

'I feel like we all failed her': Grade 6 Saanich girl dies of suspected drug overdose

Three weeks ago Adriana Londono received the worst phone call a parent could imagine — her 12-year-old daughter was dead.

“I just ran to the bathroom and cried and screamed, it was probably the worst moment of my whole life,” Londono said.

Allayah Thomas, who went by Ally, started experimenting with drugs last fall at just 11 years old. Her family says it escalated until she was using meth and heroin.

https://www.cheknews.ca/i-feel-like-we-all-failed-her-grade-6-saanich-girl-dies-of-suspected-drug-overdose-778642/

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Local story here in the Victoria, BC region, but just tragic. This shit is everywhere in this city.

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'I feel like we all failed her': Grade 6 Saanich girl dies of suspected drug overdose (Original Post) OnlinePoker May 2021 OP
OMG jpak May 2021 #1
that is seriously f*d up Skittles May 2021 #2
How does that even happen? BlueTsunami2018 May 2021 #3
Sorry but this one is on the parents.... cinematicdiversions May 2021 #4
Some things leave me speechless ... SarcasticSatyr May 2021 #5
Where does a 12 yo get the money for drugs? Hugh_Lebowski May 2021 #6

BlueTsunami2018

(3,492 posts)
3. How does that even happen?
Wed May 5, 2021, 01:16 AM
May 2021

My daughter at 11 couldn’t go anywhere or do anything without my wife and I knowing about it. There’s absolutely no way this should have slipped by without anyone noticing. Parents, teachers, friends. Someone should have seen this going on. It’s really tough to hide a dope high. Everyone failed this kid.

 

cinematicdiversions

(1,969 posts)
4. Sorry but this one is on the parents....
Wed May 5, 2021, 01:22 AM
May 2021

If you 11 year old is experimenting with meth and heroin, you have simply failed as a parent. There are no two ways around it.

I have all the sympathy in the world but at some point we have to be realistic. This is not a kids today story this is an out of control household.

 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
6. Where does a 12 yo get the money for drugs?
Wed May 5, 2021, 03:50 AM
May 2021

I really hope they find who all was selling to this child. They need to go to freaking JAIL, hardcore.

I'm generally pro-legalization of drugs, but not for 12 year olds.

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