‘How Many Children Have To Die?’ Parents Protest Outside Snapchat HQ
SANTA MONICA, CA — After the death of her 13-year-old son Luca, Amanda Faith began to carry around his childhood stuffed toy husky with a heart-shaped urn containing his ashes stitched inside.
Faith said the idea to put the urn inside the stuffed dog named Rusty, which was Luca’s first toy as a child, stems from a time she and her son needed to patch a rip on its arm when Luca was very young. Faith said when performing the “surgery” she took off one of her heart-shaped earrings and sewed it up inside the stuffing.
“Luca was so excited and he said ‘Now Rusty is going to live forever,'” Faith said. “When Luca died, I cut open Rusty’s chest, and there’s a heart-shaped urn in here containing Luca so that he’ll live forever.”
Faith was one of many parents who lost a child to gather outside Snapchat Headquarters in Santa Monica Friday afternoon to protest and bring awareness to the dangers of the app.
According to Faith, her son was able to get easy access to drug dealers on Snapchat, where he connected with a person who started off selling cannabis to the young boy. Faith said her son was eventually able to acquire counterfeit Percocet pills that turned out to be pure fentanyl. They killed her son.
