LvsAMystry
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I didn't see this posted anywhere here, but it's an ugly one. I feel so horrible for this little girl. Rebecca Riley, Age 4, died December 13, 2006 after being given lethal doses of medications to control diagnoses of Bipolar disorder and ADHD, diagnoses and medications she'd had since age 2. A rarity at so young an age and not necessarily viewed as appropriate by typical medical standards of care. It's alleged her parents used these medications in even larger dosages than prescribed ultimately leading to her death. She died lying on a pile of clothes on her parents' bedroom floor.
The details are shocking. More so when you learn the parents were already under investigation by the local DSS and this child should not have died as there were too many people trying to go through "the channels" to get her help. The father wasn't even supposed to be living there any longer as he was accused of molesting an older step-daughter. She was apparently adopted elsewhere. There are two other older siblings now in foster care and the mother had taken a restraining order out against the father a mere two months prior to Rebecca's death after the father tried to choke the 11 y.o. old brother. There were many, many people it seems that tried to recitify this situation, notifying the appropriate channels to get this child help. Sadly, there were just as many who didn't and who overlooked what was staring them in the face. A real tragedy on so many levels.
The parents, the doctor, DSS, pharmacists, relatives, and so many more have a piece in this little girls death.
Here are some local links that will take you to some press coverage of this:
Boston Herald
Boston Channel
Patriot Ledger - Everyone failed Rebecca
Boston Globe
The details are shocking. More so when you learn the parents were already under investigation by the local DSS and this child should not have died as there were too many people trying to go through "the channels" to get her help. The father wasn't even supposed to be living there any longer as he was accused of molesting an older step-daughter. She was apparently adopted elsewhere. There are two other older siblings now in foster care and the mother had taken a restraining order out against the father a mere two months prior to Rebecca's death after the father tried to choke the 11 y.o. old brother. There were many, many people it seems that tried to recitify this situation, notifying the appropriate channels to get this child help. Sadly, there were just as many who didn't and who overlooked what was staring them in the face. A real tragedy on so many levels.
The parents, the doctor, DSS, pharmacists, relatives, and so many more have a piece in this little girls death.
Here are some local links that will take you to some press coverage of this:
Boston Herald
Boston Channel
Patriot Ledger - Everyone failed Rebecca
Boston Globe