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Lionessa

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2. After reading the entire article and the conditions he and his sibs lived in,
Fri Jun 15, 2012, 10:21 AM
Jun 2012

I'm willing to bet it was a suicide. No ten year old puts that many pills in his system without having an idea to die unless they were either forced upon him or he's mentally disabled to the point of being akin to a toddler thinking they were candy. The bitterness though of most drugs would lead me to believe even the latter is highly unlikely.

Perhaps, and I hope, his sacrifice will somehow be a benefit to his sibs as they may now get the help they need to get away from a careless and useless parent.

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