A mum has shared a warning after her son was killed while participating in a viral "game."
Tia Bodkins has made an urgent appeal for parents to become aware of a so-called "choking game" where children choke themselves to temporarily cut off the oxygen to their brains.
The children allegedly play this game using belts and ropes in order to give them the feeling of being "high."
Bodkins' 11-year-old son Carson was found unresponsive by his other after playing the game. He was rushed to hospital in Colorado but was then pronounced dead.
The mum told
Fox 31 that she and the rest of her family are living "minute by minute now."
She said:
"We’re all very sad. We miss him very much. We’re just trying to lift each other up.
“We have Internet blocks, Internet protections for all of the boys. But I had let him look at YouTube so he could learn skateboarding tricks. I assumed that's what he was looking at."
Bodkin's husband, Jason Davies, said he wants parents to become more aware of what they're children are looking at on the internet.
He said:
"As parents, the responsibility lies on us to go in and make sure (kids) are protected, and sometimes that might be an invasion of their privacy."
