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my first thought would NOT be....."i've got to get on-line"......why wasn't she holding her child instead of playing on the computer? this is nuts, frankly. and i believe her son called 999, because she was busy. so, paramedics HAVE NOT arrived, and she's on her pc? HORRIBLE.The first tweet was a call to pray for her son and came a few minutes after she called 999.
If she has 5000 followers maybe she was thinking that could lead to 5000 prayers for her son.
I don't believe that's going to do **** to help, but obviously some people (perhaps the majority?) think prayers can help in these situations or they wouldn't ask for them when things like this happen.
I don't know the entirety of what she posted, but according to the article:
That was the first tweet after the accident.
Well what else could she do? The paramedics are already there, so she's doing the only thing she can think of that may actually help her child, call for people to pray for his/her safety.
I see nothing at all wrong with that. I don't agree that these prayers were going to do anything, but to attack this woman for doing what she obviously thought might help her child is sick in it's own way.
Now, if she had been tweeting about her shoes or something, the outrage would make sense. But outrage over tweeting for prayers for her child?!?!?!?
Come on.
Read more: Mother sparks outrage by tweeting as rescue workers try to save dying two-year-old son | Mail OnlineRoss sent her first tweet at 10.22pm British time on Monday – just a minute before the 999 call was made.