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The father of an Ohio 13-year-old who died after overdosing on Benadryl tablets in an apparent TikTok challenge is speaking out after burying his son.
Jacob Stevens of Greenfield, Ohio, decided to partake in the challenge with his friends earlier this month and landed in the hospital, where he ultimately was declared brain-dead before his parents took him off life support, according to his father, Justin Stevens.
“They sit back and make billions and billions of dollars,” Stevens said of TikTok, “and I can’t even wake up and say hello to my kid anymore, you know?”
Stevens told Fox News Digital on Monday that his son’s smartphone was like his “lifeline
Any time that I ever tried to get into his phone, he would just set up the passcode or something… and he would hold to it that he was not letting me into his phone, so then I’d just take the phone,” Stevens explained. “I believe technology today is a downfall. What ever happened to playing with Matchbox cars in the mud pile on the side of the house all day and ever…
