The Chipmunk Soul

BABY BLUE
This is another digital ATC piece. It is inspired by a documentary I saw recently about a refugee family that moved to the USA from Sudan to try and start a better life. Instead, they lost their youngest child to a mysterious illness not long after moving into their new apartment.

After much research into the death of the child, it was determined that she died from lead poisoning. Specifically, she had been eating paint chips off the porch of the apartment where she often played. The building was old and the death could have been prevented had the landlord simply informed the tenants that the danger existed, which, by law, he was required to do. But instead of putting the money into repainting the porches, he instead was forging signatures onto forms which should have been signed by the tenants, informing them of the hazard. He was convicted of fraud and held responsible for the death of the little girl. Her name was Sunday. She was only two years old.