Choking Challenge

Nylah Anderson — inspired by “Blackout Challenge” videos on TikTok — went to her mother’s closet in December with a clothes hanger, a purse and a goal of mimicking others she’d watched on the social media platform, a new lawsuit alleges.


The 10-year-old then hanged herself as her mother was downstairs in their Chester, Pa., home, unaware the girl was in mortal danger.

Unable to free herself from strangulation, Nylah allegedly endured “hellacious suffering” until she lost consciousness.


Her mother, Tawainna Anderson, found her hanging in the closet “near the point of death” and performed CPR until paramedics rushed her to a hospital just across the state line in Wilmington, Del.


The girl — described by those who loved her as a precious, fun-loving “butterfly” — died five days later.


“I cannot stop replaying that day in my head,” Anderson said Thursday at a news conference, later adding, “It is time that these dangerous challenges come to an end so that other families don’t experience the heartbreak we live every day.”……..

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/05/17/tiktok-blackout-challenge-lawsuit/