Stupid kids playing on the phone.

**Spiral** · #1 (**permalink**) 04-13-2006, 03:07 PM

I read this and couldn't believe it:

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Fieger said Sherrill Turner, who had an enlarged heart, would have survived February 20 if help had been sent immediately.

The boy recounted his talk with the 911 operator on Sunday's "Today" show on NBC.

"She thought I was playing on the phone," Robert said.

By the time authorities arrived, Sherrill Turner, 46, was dead.

"This indicates an endemic problem," Fieger said. "There's a discounting of children. Robert did exactly what he was taught to do."

Detroit police are investigating the 911 response. A spokesman did not immediately return a call Sunday.

After Turner collapsed, Robert placed two calls to 911. In the first call about 6 p.m., Robert told an operator his mother had passed out, but an operator asked to speak with an adult.

When he called back about three hours later, an operator told him: "You shouldn't be playing on the phone."

Police arrived after the second call.

In a statement Friday, Police Chief Ella Bully-Cummings said it was important not to rush to judgment and indicated she would have no further comment because of "imminent or impending litigation."

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source : cnn.com

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