Children left seriously ill after parents follow influencer's advice to 'cure' autism with bleach
news article · 2025
LINK
SUMMARY
The Independent (UK), byline Jabed Ahmed, published Monday 2 June 2025 (page datePublished metadata: 2025-06-02T15:18:44.000Z; visible byline dateline 'Monday 02 June 2025 11:18 EDT'). Fetched directly. Reports that Kerri Rivera, described as having 'more than 17,000 followers on Instagram,' continues (as of the article's publication) to encourage parents to give autistic children chlorine dioxide (CD), and that parents report their children have become seriously ill after following her advice. Quotes unnamed experts characterizing her claims as 'sickening' and calling the practice 'wrong, dangerous and harmful to autistic p[eople]' (article text truncated in the fetched excerpt after 'autistic p'). Reports Rivera's chemical 'protocol' is claimed to rid children of parasites.
NOTES
The most recent (June 2025) mainstream reporting establishing that chlorine dioxide/MMS promotion, and specifically Kerri Rivera’s autism protocol, continued to reach new parents and cause reported harm a full five years after the Genesis II Church prosecution began and roughly a decade after Rivera’s first Illinois regulatory action. Retrieved directly from the-independent.com. Cited for the case’s active-continuation and present-day-harm claims; this entry does not claim the article’s “seriously ill” reports were independently medically verified beyond what the article itself reports.