A bereaved mother has said getting more rights for parents would take her one step closer to making something positive come out of the loss of her son.
Ellen Roome, from Cheltenham, believes her 14-year-old son Jools died after an online challenge went wrong and his social media accounts could provide the evidence needed. She has been campaigning for "Jools' Law", which would allow parents to access the social media accounts of their children if they die, and the petition is due to be debated in parliament on Monday.
Isnt this more a matter for the police?
Jools was found unconscious in his bedroom in April 2022. An inquest into his death found he took his own life. The coroner at the time said it was unlikely he intended to end his life, but the exact events leading up to his death were unclear.
Sounds like the coroner doesn’t really know what happened, so why would the social media access make a difference? Surely if there was anything to find, the police would have found it?
Forensic data of Jools' phone was not gathered at the time and Ms Roome has been asking for access to his social media accounts for more than two years.
Ah. Sounds as though she’d be better off campaigning for better policing to me…
"more rights for parents"
ReplyDeleteGood luck with that...
"campaigning for better policing to me"
And good luck with That!
But of course you are correct in your general point.
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No mother should have to bury their child, the agony suffered would be unbearable. Unbearable enough to unhinge any parent, I'm not saying that this woman is unhinged but she is evidently seeking to lay blame and create a memorial for her child. This will plague her mind for the rest of her life, poor woman.
ReplyDeleteIt would take a very broad minded mother who would read the private social media content of a 14 year old boy and not be appalled.
ReplyDeleteThe very worst thing that someone can demand is "The Government must do something..." Because, in the first instance it means yet another demand on the taxpayer and second it enables yet more government interference in our lives. It's not like government to miss an opportunity whilst dealing with a specific problem, to make legislation excessively vague so they can deal with a number of other issues on the government's own agenda.
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