Londono said her daughter was living with her grandparents who also tried to get help. That was what we really wanted and there was no rehab. They just sent us counsellor numbers, outreach workers and all these things that really weren t enough. Like she needed to go to rehab. There needs to be a rehab facility for kids under 14.
Her grandparents told CHEK news, the Grade 6 student refused to go to counselling.
Gaps in treatment services
B.C. s Representative for Children and Youth Jennifer Charlesworth acknowledged there are significant gaps in treatment services especially for families living outside of urban areas.
VICTORIA Adriana Londono is trying to come to terms with the fact that she will never get to see her 12-year-old daughter again. “She was too young to go,” said Londono. Her daughter Ally died of a suspected fentanyl overdose on April 14. “I was told that she was the youngest to die from an overdose from fentanyl since the COVID crisis began,” Londono said. The BC Coroners Service is still investigating the cause of death, and says the youngest person to die during B.C. s overdose crisis was 13 years old. News of the unthinkably young victim has also reached B.C.’s top doctor.