Heartbreaking final photo of nine-year-old girl killed by asthma attack after ‘parents failed to refill her inhaler and ran sobbing child a bath instead of taking her to hospital when she turned BLUE’ – as pair are charged over death

A little girl died after her parents didn’t call an ambulance for three hours when she had such a severe asthma attack she turned blue.

Amy Lynn Modrow, 9, died Feb. 17 when she was declared brain dead after a week in the intensive care unit at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis.

Her parents Anthony and Rachel Modrow, both 34, were charged Wednesday with second-degree manslaughter and accused of negligently causing Amy’s death.

Amy’s father allegedly didn’t refill her asthma inhaler for a month and her mother let her ‘chicken nugget’ use a steam bath instead of calling an ambulance.

As she lay dying in the hospital, her parents documented her condition on social media and appealed for donations, raising more than $10,000 online.

‘My children are fighting for her life after a severe asthma attack. Help us,” Rachel wrote on Twitter.

After Amy died, she posted a tweet tagging professional wrestler Rebecca Quinn and telling her friends, “Let’s show this post.”

“My 9 year old just passed away, she was one of your biggest fans. You impressed her so much. You were her hero. Thank you for giving her someone to look up to. She always wanted to go to Wrestlemania,” she wrote.

The post was accompanied by a terrifying photo of Amy in hospital, hooked up to machines with a tube down her throat.

Anthony made a series of Facebook posts sharing his grief in the weeks between Amy’s death and his arrest.

‘It’s official that Amy wasn’t sedated and didn’t wake up. She’s brain dead. They’re giving her until Sunday for organ donation. I have to go home, it hurts so much. I said goodbye,” he wrote on the day she died.

He wrote on March 25: “Going to work with the kids and Amy’s memories hurt. Home, where she died. I’m not okay.

‘Usage[d] to be a proud homeowner. Now I’d rather look at sales and the bus building I should have done after Amy graduated. My house is eating me alive.”

Amy’s asthma attack started when she was at a sleepover on February 9. Her friend noticed she wasn’t feeling well and told their mother.

The friend’s mother became increasingly concerned the next morning because her inhaler, prescribed in her grandmother’s name, was not helping.

She called Anthony, who, according to court documents, just sighed and handed the phone to his wife, who told her to take her home.

The friend’s mother told her that Amy was “not faking” the asthma attack and offered to take her to a doctor but was turned down.

Amy texted her mother at 7:09 a.m. requesting her medication, and by the time she got home at 7:30 a.m. she was wheezing, breathing heavily, could barely walk, and asked to see a doctor.

Instead, her mother reportedly did nothing until she finally called a family friend at 10 a.m. to come see her.

When the friend arrived, Amy’s skin was blue, she couldn’t lift her arms and she was crying, but Rachel simply gave her a steam bath, court documents allege.

The friend insisted that Amy had to go to the hospital and eventually grabbed her, carried the girl to the apartment complex parking lot and called 911 at 10:40 am.

Paramedics did not arrive until 10.57am and worked on her in the car park before rushing her to hospital.

Anthony allegedly said that Amy told him a month before her death that her inhaler was empty, but he never refilled it.

Prosecutors wrote that pediatricians they consulted said Amy would have had a much better chance of survival if her parents had sent her to the hospital immediately.

They also said that a steam bath is not a recognized treatment for an asthma attack.

The couple was in court Thursday, where bail was set at $25,000, with the condition of home confinement if they did so.