An average sore throat shouldn’t be a death sentence, but for one 11-year-old, it was. Now the family demands to know what went wrong – We Got This Covered
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An average sore throat shouldn’t be a death sentence, but for one 11-year-old, it was. Now the family demands to know what went wrong

The family tried everything they could.

Frankie-Rae Law, 11, came to his mother on Nov. 14 with a respiratory issue. The boy lived in Braintree, England, with his mother, Keleigh Law, and his grandmother. At first, they all thought his issue was just a sore throat.

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Off to the local general practitioner they went, and they were immediately sent home, with the doctor calling it “just a virus.” We’ve seen other situations where doctors have sent people away prematurely, with the latest patient even being sent back when they were still in labor. That’s ultimately what makes figures like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. so dangerous, because while it is true that sometimes medical practitioners don’t always get it right, he instead uses such occasions to spread conspiracy theories.

Keleigh had no idea what was about to happen when she arrived home with her son. At first, he was his normal self, which she describes as a lovable and playful child. In fact, her last moments with Frankie-Rae happened just past midnight when he awoke at 1:40 a.m. to come play around with Keleigh while she was on her phone talking to a friend.

Keleigh explained how quickly things suddenly turned for the worst, saying, “But then it got to 1:43 a.m., and he was gasping for air like he had something stuck in it. He told me, ‘I can’t breathe.’ He is pacing up and down because he was so scared, and within two minutes, he went eerily silent.” Keleigh added that her son went to the bathroom, and that’s where he lost consciousness.

As her son lay on the bathroom floor, his lips started turning grey. That’s when Keleigh’s mother reportedly came into the bathroom and did CPR on her grandson for 30 entire minutes until the paramedics arrived. The paramedics then said that it was too late for them to use the defibrillator because Frankie-Rae had no heart rhythm or pulse at that point.

They still took Frankie-Rae to the hospital, but when they arrived, they informed Keleigh that it was unlikely her son would make it out of this, and eventually, at 3:00 a.m., Keleigh said her final goodbyes to her son. The story quickly took an afterlife on social media, with multiple users outraged on X.

One user suggested that this must be medical malpractice. Another wondered how we can get doctors to take all patients seriously. Another suggested that Frankie-Rae could have had Covid — which certainly lines up with what Violet Affleck was advocating for at the UN, something that strangely got pushback for no other reason than people would rather ignore that significant moment in modern history.

According to People Keleigh said of her late son, “He was such a lovable child, and since he’s passed, I’ve got numerous messages from people I don’t even know. I have just never noticed how loved he was by so many people. His smile literally lit up a room.”

Up until this moment, the Law family is still receiving condolences from every corner of the globe that heard their tragic story.


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Fred Onyango
Fred Onyango is an entertainment journalist who primarily focuses on the intersection of entertainment, society, and politics. He has been writing about the entertainment industry for five years, covering celebrity, music, and film through the lens of their impact on society and politics. He has reported from the London Film Festival and was among the first African entertainment journalists invited to cover the Sundance Film Festival. Fun fact—Fred is also a trained pilot.