Inside ‘the boy in the tent’: Conditions were worse than anyone knew

The boy is out of the tent.

Nearly two weeks after KIRO Newsradio first reported on a nine-year-old living in a fentanyl-filled encampment off Aurora Avenue, the tent has been abandoned. Andrea Suarez, founder of We Heart Seattle, said she believes the child is now receiving medical care, though his exact situation remains unclear.

What is clear is that he is no longer living in the conditions a cleanup crew discovered when they entered the tent after it was abandoned…

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