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If we all agree the death of Kayla Allen could have been prevented, what
could have been done to prevent it?
There is strong evidence that the home environment was unsafe for Kayla.
The most obvious example of that is the poison being stored in an area
which had easy access to children. That coupled with the fact that this
poison was allegedly stored in a container labeled "water" stored
next to other containers that were identically labeled.
Could that poison have been stored somewhere other than where it was stored?
Would that have saved Kayla?
There is also evidence of prior physical abuse in the home where Kayla
died. This earlier evidence is documented by photographs taken by the
victim's grandmother and reported to authorities both in Michigan and
North Carolina.
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There is overwhelming evidence that a blood relative, an aunt, had contacted
several governmental agencies with testimony and accounts of abuse by
Kayla about prior mistreatment by her guardian and her guardian's husband
a year or more prior to Kayla's death. Serious concern for the health
and welfare of Kayla was seemingly ignored by officials.
There was "acting out" issues brought to the attention of school
officials and passed on to DSS.
Accusations of sexual abuse, unresolved in that no perpetrator was ever
uncovered. One suspect was cleared by investigators and by a lie detector
test.
So where was the Department of Social Services?
Since it is unknown as to the exact time Kayla Allen drank the poison
that supposedly killed her, we do not know what the reaction time was
for the chemical to interact with Kayla's blood and causing her to aspirate.
In an earlier post we looked at the timeline. There is some evidence that
would contradict the "new mother's" account that Kayla drank
the poison one-half hour or so before she died. By some accounts the poison
would have had to be consumed much earlier than reported and in much higher
potency than reported.
So where are the studies about pesticide poisoning that will show us what
it takes to consume a lethal amount of pesticide?
One study in the August 2003 issue of American Journal of Public Health
looked into accidental exposures to pesticides by children. The children
involved in these cases averaged 2 years old and most of them swallowed
the poisons, although a few breathed them in or got them on their skin
and in their eyes. 99% of the unintentional exposures to the poison took
place in the home. Of the 2,520 reports studied they found NO DEATHS and
only 3 children out of the 2,520 that suffered any major clinical effects.
Another study into the Sri Lanka population, by the World Heath Organization,
claims over 8,500 suicides were committed by persons intentionally ingesting
pesticide poison. The leading cause of death in hospitals in Sri Lanka
is pesticide poison. Suicide is the leading cause of death among women
in China, the preferred way of killing oneself in China is pesticide poisoning.
So as it seems accidental ingestion rarely causes death, much less serious
clinical effects and intentional ingestion causes perhaps hundreds of
thousands of deaths worldwide. So how does Kayla die from accidentally
ingesting such a minuscule amount of poison compared to that which a depressed
woman in Sri Lanka would consume?
To move forward I would invite each of you to examine symptoms of pesticide
poisoning, numbers of deaths attributed to accidental ingestion of pesticide
and likelihood of a spirited little 7 year old girl ingesting poison,
of any sort, in an attempt at taking her own life.
Hopefully some of you will take it upon yourselves to look into this,
call your poison control centers, your hospitals, your doctors, search
the internet and report back to us with your findings. Be sure to bring
to the forum verifiable facts.
I am still in the process of investigating DSS and will report back when
I have made some more headway.
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