A tear for you, Rebecca Riley

Girl's death stirs debate over psychiatric meds
Parents of 4-year-old accused of intentionally overmedicating daughter:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17758170/

*sigh*

My heart hurts so much as I sit writing this and crying for this poor baby's soul. And oddly enough, it's not as much for her death as for her life. This particular excerpt from the article just kills me :

"Williams told police that the night before she died, Rebecca was pale and seemed “out of it.” At one point, the little girl knocked weakly on her parents’ bedroom door and softly called for her mommy, but Michael Riley opened the door a crack and yelled at her to go back to her room, Williams said. Later that night, McGonnell told police, he heard someone struggling to breathe and found Rebecca gurgling as if something was stuck in her throat. McGonnell told police he wiped vomit from his niece’s face, then kicked in the door to her parents’ room and yelled at the Rileys to take Rebecca to the emergency room. Instead, Carolyn Riley said, she gave her daughter a half-tablet of Clonidine."

My god.