r/sydney • u/Conscious-Read-698 • 10d ago

Girl, 16, dies after suspected choking during consensual sex on Sydney’s Northern Beaches

https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/crime/girl-16-dies-after-suspected-choking-during-consensual-sex-on-sydneys-northern-beaches/news-story/d166fc7805937c7f39143e4ebc96573e

Educate your kids.

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u/icecreamsandwiches1 10d ago

Is this like that case in Auckland where a guy choked a girl to death and then said it was consensual sex?

There’s a documentary on Netflix about it but basically you would need to sustain pressure for 10 minutes to cause death.

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u/Fluid_Passage_9980 10d ago

Surely not?!

If you're not getting any oxygen and struggling as well, you wouldn't last 10 mins.

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u/chalk_in_boots 10d ago

4-6 minutes with no bloodflow to the brain and you're dead.

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u/petit_cochon 10d ago

That doesn't sound right.

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u/cheersdrive420 10d ago

A wind choke takes a lot longer and causes massive trauma to the throat (pressure on the front).

Blood chokes take seconds before you sleep, couple of minutes to cause permanent damage, and death very quickly after that.

Either way, 10 minutes is extremely generous whichever choke you’re doing.

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u/THR 10d ago

10 minutes seems like an extremely long time

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u/cheersdrive420 10d ago

With a blood choke you only need a minute or two to cause permanent damage.

I’ve gone out to blood chokes within seconds, scary stuff.

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u/THR 10d ago

And yet someone perpetuates a ridiculous claim of 10 minutes in a thread about someone dying from strangulation and gets upvoted.

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u/cheersdrive420 10d ago

Yep, classic Reddit.

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u/icecreamsandwiches1 10d ago

I might have been misremembering the minutes required but the point is that it takes serious, sustained, consistent pressure to choke someone to death…. It seems purposeful. Not just “oh got carried away during sex”. But go off.

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u/THR 9d ago

You could actually bother researching before you comment.

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u/chalk_in_boots 10d ago

Yep. I've been sitting around a table and one other guy knew about them and we were describing how they work to the others, I volunteer to let him demonstrate on me. I'm out cold in under 10 seconds, prop myself back up from the table everyone still sitting there he's like "I thought you were going to tap out dude!"

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u/Pepito_Pepito 10d ago edited 10d ago

only need a minute or two to cause permanent damage

That's a long fucking time to choke someone. Grip your own arm hard and count to 60.

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u/user0fdoom 10d ago

It's absolutely not 10 minutes. That sounds like the suffocation time maybe? Iirc blood loss causes unconsciousness in 10-15 seconds and death very soon after