8-Year Old Dies 6-Months After She Was Dared To Drink Boiling Water

Months after a little girl drank boiling water through a straw. Ki’ari Pope, eight, of Boyton Beach, has died. The little girl was said to have complained to her mother’s boyfriend that she couldn’t breath on Sunday night.

Ki’ari was immediately rushed to the hospital but was unresponsive. She was pronounced dead at 12.15am. Pope’s mother, Marquisia Bonner, says the little girl was dared to drink the boiling water by her cousin in March.

Police revealed that the little girl received a tracheotomy that left her deaf and with chronic respiratory problems, but was declared‘medically compromised.’ .

State authorities investigated that March incident and at least nine other allegations of either abuse or neglect involving the girl since her birth.