It keeps happening over and over, and nothing seems to be done to stop it.

Another TikTok “blackout challenge” has claimed the life of another youngster.

The challenge has been blamed for several deaths, including the latest reported one – Leon Brown, 14, on August 25.

Leon was found unresponsive in his room in Cumbemauld, United Kingdom by his mother, Lauryn Keating. 

When she found him, she was not aware that he had tried the blackout challenge, a dangerous fad that’s viral on TikTok. Children are challenged to see how long they can hold their breath while strangling themselves. She found out later, from his friend. 

Another UK child, Archie Battersbee, 12, died playing the same perilous game weeks earlier.

An Italian 10-year-old girl tied a belt around her neck and choked herself in January.

After the child’s death, which devastated his mother, she told the Daily Record, “One of Leon’s friends told me he had been doing the challenge on Facetime with them after seeing it on TikTok.

She added, “My Leon thought he would be the one to try it first. Him and his friends probably thought it was a laugh and a joke.”

Keating is determined to help parents be more aware, and prevent other young people from going through the same thing. She said she had no idea her son was doing such crazy things. 

Are parents so concerned these days about their child’s privacy, that they don’t know what they are doing? Or maybe kids are on their own too much.