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People You Can Interview
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here to listen to multiple recorded
audio interviews on the main
members page of the report site. .
Post an interview request at the Yahoo group
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/supportforthosethatlostachildtothechokinggame/
Post an interview request at http://www.stop-the-choking-game.com/contactus.html
Dr. Thomas Andrew, Chief Medical Examiner
Office of State Chief Medical Examiner # 218, 246 Pleasant St., Concord, NH
03301
603-271-1235 Tel 603-271-6308 Fax
Sue Eastgard, Director
Youth Suicide Prevention Program www.yspp.org
sue@yspp.org
8511 15th Ave NE Seattle, WA 98115 206-297-5922 Tel 206-297-0818 Fax
Linda Taylor, PhD, Co-Director, Center for Mental Health in
Schools
UCLA Dept. of Psychology Box 941563 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563
310-825-3634 Tel 310-206-8716 Fax ltaylor@ucla.edu
Dr. Taylor helps operate a UCLA web page at http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/newnetexchange.htm that
has a discussion thread addressing the "choking game".
Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus, Ph.D. Neuropsychiatric Institute
UCLA Suite 350 10920 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90024-6521
310-794-8278 Tel 310-794-8297 Fax rotheram@ucla.edu
We were referred to Dr. Rotheram-Borus by UCLA as a doctor who could discuss
adolescent risk behaviors.
Anne
Phillips - Ms. Banks lost her teenage son Mike eight years ago to the
choking game. Unlike most choking game victims Mike was playing the game with
several friends when he was injured. click
here to view Ms. Phillips' story . Contact
Ms. Phillips via email at moonbaby@honeyhalllane.freeserve.co.uk
. Ms. Phillips indicates that Mike's siblings, who witnessed
the choking game, are available to be interviewed.
Kelly Miles - Mr. Miles is a deacon at a Tacoma, WA Christian school who has communicated information about the choking game to his
organization's youth group and their parents. Contact Mr. Miles at 253-222-2058
or mileskrcj@aol.com
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Grace Hudson - Ms. Hudson works with the police department in
Florida and has developed a Power Point presentation to give to adult groups
about the dangers of "Household Highs" including the choking game.
Contact Ms. Hudson at 904-230-9944 or ghudson@nfhidta.org
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Scott Metheny - Mr. Metheny is a police officer in Pennsylvania
who has developed a Power Point presentation that he has been presenting to
schools. Contact Officer Metheny at 215-657-4700 or umpd31@msn.com
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Cindy Allard
- Ms. Allard is the mother of choking game victim
Justin Allard, a special needs high school student. Ms. Allard can be reached by
calling 207-698-7674 or emailing CINDYLOUWHO01@msn.com.
Trina Alcott - Ms. Alcott is the mother of choking game victim
Kodee Alcott, 13 who died in New Jersey in March 2005. Contact Ms. Alcott via
email at trixieracer@comcast.net
or by phone at 856-910-0537.
Robert Sapasi
- Mr. Sepasi is the father of Sasha Sepasi who
died in October 2005 in California. Members of the press my contact Mr. Sepasi
by calling 818-521-4999.
Dan Baldwin - Mr. Baldwin is the editor of Teen Choking Game
Report and a parent who has researched the subject of the choking game from
a parent's perspective and has interviewed many parents, school officials and
others who are knowledgeable about the choking game. Contact Dan Baldwin at
951-251-5155 or Dan@TeenChokingGame.com
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Quoted Knowledgeable Persons
Just as soon as possible we will be pulling quotes &
contact information from all existing choking game stories so you can quickly
verify and reference them in your stories.
Doctor - Dr. Gary Park, Director of Critical Care Mary
Bridge Children's Hospital
315 Martin Luther King Jr Way, PO Box 5857, 98415-0857 Tacoma, Washington
98405
253-403-1511 Tel 253-403-4742 Fax gpark@mbcha.net
Dr. Park is attributed to the advice given to
parents about the choking game at the Northshore PTA website. web
link Click the following to read an extended
interview with Dr. Park in Tacoma Weekly
PTA - Michelle Mandoli, Madison PTA
president, said parents “need to educate ourselves about what’s going on out
there, because this is nothing new. I feel we live in a great community and just
don’t think it could happen here, but it does.” web
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Cases
Daniel Sheppard, Tennessee, age 11, died
February 2006, news1
news2
news3
Mitchell Walsh‚ 11‚ a Simmons Elementary
School student from Horsham PA
Alyx Detjen,
11, died January 2006 in Bear Valley Springs, CA Print
news article (archive)
Print
news article2 (archive2)
Sources interviewed: Sgt. David Wattsmade, Bear Valley Springs Police Dept.; Jim
Malouf, Kearn County Coroner
Erich Winters,
15, died 12/18/5 in Tucson, AZ Print
news article (archive)
Sasha Sepasi,
14, died 10/21/5 in Tarzana, CA. Sasha was a gifted athlete and an honor
student. Click
here to watch CBS news TV story. Click
here to read news release from Sasha's school. Click
here to listen to audio interview with Sasha's mother.
Kyle Kelly McCarthy
, 13, died 10/10/5 in Wisconsin.
Kyle used a cloth rope in the basement to make himself unconscious. His father
discovered him fifteen minutes later and revived him using 911 directed
CPR. Kyle never regained consciousness and died the following morning in at
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin.
Waisake Naivaluvou Jr.,
12, Manteca, CA 10/10/5 The San Joaquin County Coroner's Office
has ruled the cause of death asphyxia due to hanging due to autoerotic activity,
according to sheriff's spokesman Les Garcia.
Dylan Blake,
11, St. Augustine, FL 10/7/5 Click
here to view web site for Dylan
Justin Allard,
17, Berwick, ME died 9/27/5. Justin was a special needs student. His
parents are concerned about who told him about the choking game. Click
here to read newspaper report. Click
here to read Principal's lettersent to all parents. Obituary
10/12/5
News Report video
report 1 video
report 2
Alexandra Berlin,
12, 9/26/5 in Washington. The seventh-grader came home from school and
went upstairs to her bedroom. Ten minutes later, her family found her dead. Her
sister said she was playing "the choking game."
Trevor Hodges,
11, September 2005 Kansas Newspaper
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story
Colin Russell,
12, Tacoma, WA 9/7/5 An athletic, musical, highly engaged child. His
family said there were no signs of intentional self-harm.
Kimberly Wilson,
15, Lawrence, KS 8/9/5 She had played "the choking game"
for years but managed to keep it from her family. Newspaper
story archive
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Jeffrey Patton,
16, Clinton, OH 8/28/5 Friends who found him after he choked
himself told police he had played "the choking game" before.
Shawntae Chavez,
14, NM 8/22/5 Web
site about Shawntae
Dalton Eby,
10, Boise, ID 7/8/5 Though his family was unaware, he and a
friend regularly played a game using a rope to cut off oxygen to the brain.
Gabriel Mordecai,
13, Paradise, CA 5/6/5 Gabriel's twin brother, Sam, said an
older boy showed them how to choke themselves. Though his mother found out and
warned the boys of the dangers, Gabriel continued the activity. Web
site published by Gabriel's mother Sarah.
Chelsea Dunn,
13, Nampa, ID 4/14/5 Her family said the game was popular with
a group of girls at her school. Six girls were suspended for a day after a
security camera tape showed the seventh-graders choking each other in a hallway.
Click
here to see web site about Chelsea
Braden Erickson,
13, Tolleson, AZ 5/20/5 Click
here to see web site about Braden
Kodee Alcott,
13, Pennsauken, NJ 3/31/5 A skateboarder, hockey player and
good student, his mother found him dead in their home. Click
here to listen to an interview with Kodee's mother. Web
site about Kodee
Nicholas Andres' Serna,
16, Glendale, AZ 1/29/5 Click
here to read news article from Nick's school. Memorial
web site about Nick published by his mother Michele.
Jeffrey Peak,
14, Ellensburg, WA 11/7/4 Web
site about Jeffrey
Tommy Fortin,
11, New Hampshire 2001 News
story about Tommy.
Jennifer Cernekee,
14, Kenosha, WI 2001 News
article about Jennifer.
Jason Linkins, 14,
NC 4/23/99 Web
site about Jason
Colin Simpson,
19, PA 5/21/1998 Print
news article Video
news article Print
archive Video
archive
Mike Phillips,
Canada, 1997 Web
page written by Mile's mother
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