In one widely shared video, a teenage girl sits on a bed, painfully thin and unable to speak. Her face appears to twitch; her body jerks as she makes distressed sounds. Then, near the end, she becomes eerily still.
For her family, the footage became proof that something extraordinary and malevolent had happened to her. The reported medical conclusion was devastatingly ordinary: severe bronchopneumonia, dehydration, malnutrition, and cardiac arrest.
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