Archie Battersbee loved to be active, taking part in mixed martial arts and gymnastics. But like most kids his age, the 12-year-old also spent many hours on TikTok, engaging with the billions of videos on the hit social-media app. But that app could have been the reason Archie ended up comatose and at the centre of a heartrending legal battle to keep him alive, his mom, Hollie Dance, believes. Hollie and Paul Battersbee of Essex in the UK lost the fight to keep their child on life-support machines and had to say goodbye when those machines were recently turned off.

Source: The Guardian August 11, 2022 21:25 UTC