Ouff, it has taken me two days to read through all this Archie stuff, and I was not expecting to get to the end to find him still in a hospital bed.
First of all, big well done to everyone in this thread for documenting this so well, especially getting to his mom's facebook before the cleanse. Good work, kiwis.
I'm certain there is some additional mountain of horror under all this.
Yes, he almost certainly killed himself. BUT ALSO: Everyone is also almost certainly right that mom did something awful to prompt it/ straw that broke the camel's back. Was surprised to see the rabbit (are we sure it's a real rabbit in that pic?) b/c I was sure
@A tree was right and she kicked it down the stairs / broke its neck / slapped it about or something in order to distress Archie so much he went and hanged himself.
OR:
Because the 'hanging' account is all over the place: As pointed out, her story is inconsistent and it looks like she's lying when she speaks about it. My horrible underlying thought is that MOM saw the tiktok 'craze' and bullied him into trying it for some kind of video she wanted to go viral, or because she thought she'd cause some medium-term medical damage for attention. Maybe she kicked HIM down the stairs in a temper and when he hanged himself she invented the 'dropped him 8ft getting him down' story to cover his bruises. Something is fucky there, who knows how bad the real story might be.
The "ADHD, uncontrollable child that no school will take" is completely in opposition to the gymnast who is completely ripped. Gymnastics and body building take concentration, discipline and commitment. How the fuck did an ADHD tearaway manage that? Is mom making up/ exaggerating/ exacerbating/ stimulating w/ drugs some anti-social behavior? Or is it caused by abuse?
....Which leads to the idea that some gymnastics nonce got to him - forget who wrote this, sorry. But I suspect that single MOM stripper / pole dancing chav extraordinaire Holly has a parade of rough men coming through the house. Mom's bf is a common demographic for child abusers.
Anyway, I'm speculating of course, but the whole story reeks of being the tip of an iceberg. Tip of a smelly trashy sewer fatburg.
On a gentler note, poor Archie. I'm betting he didn't have the loving family and happy life a child deserves. Rest in Peace, and as my mom would say,
Let him go to the Lord.