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Hi my name is Niki and I would like to share the story of my beautiful Godson Dionté-James Rooney. I want to say his name as many times as I can as I dont get to hear it much anymore.
Dionté-James Rooney was a 19 month old baby. He lived in London with his 3 year old brother and his mother Eileen.
Dionté was a loving, happy and playful baby with a lot of joy in his heart and always happy to see people (weather he knew them or not!). He was always smiling and love to be involved when people were around. He was a little person in his own right, with such a big personality for a 19th month old baby.
Dionté-James Rooney unexpectedly died in his sleep on the 29th July 2014, his mother Eileen put him to sleep one evening and woke up the next morning with his 3 year old bother telling her that there was something wrong with Dionté. She went into their shared room where her 7 year old nephew was, as they had, had a sleepover the night before. There she found Dionté- James unconscious and blue she tried her best to revive him and continued until the ambulance she had called arrived. There was nothing they could do however, and they pronounced him DOA. They explained he had most likely passed at some point during the night. The boys had gotten up and played thinking that Dionté was asleep, they watched as Eileen screamed for Dionté and while she tried to revive him. They watched as the paramedic told Eileen that her he had past away.
Dionté's Funeral was on the 22nd August 2014, Eileen paid for the Funeral, wake and burial. She then saved up for a 2x2 Personalize headstone with messages from his brother and family. She saved her money for months to put her little boy to rest in the way she felt would honour him. Now, after she has had the headstone made and is ready to put it on his plot she has been told that where he is, there is no room for a headstone, as it is lawned land! She was not told this a year earlier when she originally bought the plot.
Now it has come to the stage where his body is being exhumed and reburied in the original type of plot that was planned. This is just another horrible thing in a very long series of unfortunate events.
The whole thing has been one massive horrible shock to us all that love Dionté-James. I miss him terribly much. I am telling you all this because I want you to understand and I want to share his story. He died of SUDI (SIDS).
Eileen is my Earth sister, she is not my sister by blood but I couldn't love her more if she was. She is one of the most caring wonderful people I know and it devastates and completely breaks my heart that she has had to endure any of this. It was so hard the first time burying Dionté, now she has the re-burial of Dionté hanging over her for a second time. She is a young single mom who took care of the complete costs of burying Dionté the first time and is still recovering from the debt of that. Now that he needs to be Exhumed and reburied she has no way of affording it. I want to help her so much and I really wish I could. I will help in every way I can because that's what family's do. She has been trying to fund raise between friends and family but to be honest I don't see her making anywhere near enough. She has had so many hard times in life I just want Dionté to rest in peace for his sake and hers.
Please help us honour Dionté-James. No mother should have to bury her child twice.
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