Despite his family’s pleas, a judge has ruled that a 12-year-old boy who suffered brain damage is dead and that life support treatment should be discontinued.
Archie Battersbee was discovered comatose with a ligature around his neck at his house in Essex on April 7.
It was initially thought to be a “freak accident,” but his family began to suspect he was participating in a dangerous online challenge.
Doctors at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel believe the young boy is brain dead and should be taken of the ventilator.
However, his parents, Hollie Dance andPaul Battersbee, who are traumatized, say his heart is still beating and they are desperate for his treatment to keep going.
Hollie previously stated that she has felt her son squeeze her fingers ‘with a tight grip,’ and that she believes it is ‘his way of letting me know he’s still there and just needs more time.’
She told viewers on ITV’s Good Morning Britain earlier this month that she was ‘fighting for his life.’
‘If I don’t explore every avenue and if I don’t fight for his life, then, later on, we realis
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