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Lakeland girl's death from choking game raises awareness to its ...
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After Palm Coast mother Kate Leonardi's 11-year-old son, Dylan, died in 2005, she thought he had committed suicide. But something about the death didn't add up. He died in similar way to Twan'ya, with a belt on his bunk bed. “I thought he took his life. That was the only thing that made sense at the time,” ...
CDC warns of deaths from 'choking game' - today > health - TODAY.com
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... said it's about time the government took a thorough and serious look at a deadly —and vastly underreported — practice. “Acknowledgement from the CDC that this is an issue is a huge step,” said Kate Leonardi of St. Augustine, Fla., who founded the DB Foundation after her 11-year-old son, Dylan Blake, ...
PressReader - Orlando Sentinel: THE GAME THAT KILLS
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“The amount of children who know what the choking game is greatly outnumbers the parents who are aware of it,” said Kate Leonardi, founder of The Dangerous Behaviors Foundation, a Palm Coast-based nonprofit that tracks choking-game deaths. “Parents need to include a chat about the choking game ...
Deadly game: What may seem harmless to teens is killing them
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Kate Leonardi, 32, the founder of the Florida-based Dylan Blake Foundation, said such stories are becoming all too common. Every year, hundreds of children die or give themselves brain damage trying to asphyxiate themselves, she said. The rush of cutting off blood flow to the brain produces a feeling of ...
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