Child's death was anything but a suicide

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Child's death was anything but a suicide

By FRED GRIMM

April 27, 2009

Calling the death of Gabriel Myers a ''suicide'' lets his killers off the hook.

The 7-year-old was propelled by a vast

conspiracy of abuse and neglect and

malpractice.

The boy only finished the job on April

15, when he locked himself in the bathroom of his

Margate foster home and coiled a shower hose

around his neck.

We know that his mother, currently in jail in Ohio,

her parental rights severed by the courts, seemed

to be preoccupied with other matters,

including

drugs.

AN ALARMING PATHOLOGY

And we know that something awful in his short, sad

life had triggered an alarming pathology of

aggressive sexual behaviors. This stuff

doesn't

occur spontaneously. Someone, reportedly an

older child, inflicted this kind of learned behavior on

a small child. Gabriel was

abused.

''Kids act out like this because someone hurt them,'' said Andrea Moore, the longtime child advocate in Broward

County and director of

Florida's Children First. ``And they are trying to tell us they're hurt.''

Gabriel was a child of obvious and urgent needs. He needed help, attention and therapy. What he got was Lexapro,

Zyprexa and Symbyax

(a combination of Zyprexa and Prozac).

None of the three powerful psychotropic drugs

doled out to Gabriel while he was a foster

child was approved for children. All three drugs were known to

raise the risk of ''suicidal tendencies'' in children.

And Moore points out that none of these anti-psychotic and anti-depressant drugs had a damn thing to do with

repairing Gabriel's

underlying problems. ``Give me a break. There is no drug that cures the pain of childhood sexual

abuse.''

POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS

The drugs, which come with a long and sobering list of possible side effects in children, have been doled out to troublesome kids to make
them more manageable. Eli Lilly was fined $1.4 billion -- that's billion with a B -- in March for nefariously marketing the
unauthorized use of Zyprexa for children, despite the known risks. A big chunk of those kids, like Gabriel, were foster kids, whose
lives by definition were inflicted with the kind of trauma apt to cause unruly behavior.

State officials across the country seemed happy to pay $25 a pill to keep their unruly wards quiet. Eli Lilly also targeted elderly Medicaid
patients. The federal lawsuit cited a ``thinly veiled marketing of Zyprexa as an effective chemical restraint for demanding, vulnerable and
needy patients.''

Foster kids were essentially guinea pigs in a vast, public-financed drug experiment.

Of course, safeguards supposedly protected foster kids. Florida requires so-called ''informed consent'' before some doctor pumps a kid
up with psychotropics. Parents are asked first -- though most foster children would hardly be foster children if it wasn't for lousy decisions by
irresponsible parents.\

Absent a parent, a judge must give the OK for psychotropics. But the courts and case workers from the Department of Children & Families
are all too overwhelmed by caseloads and beset by budget cuts to spend time contesting a doctor's judgment.

''No one was looking out for Gabriel,'' Moore said.

What Gabriel got, instead of real help, were powerful adult drugs laden with dangerous side effects. His cause of death was listed as
suicide. It was just another misdiagnosis.

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