Sinéad O’Connor says teen son on suicide watch died after escaping hospital

On Thursday, the pop star took to Twitter with a desperate plea after her young son Shane was reported missing. The boy's body was later found Friday by police outside Dublin. The cause of death has not yet been released.

According to his mother, Shane O'Connor was suicidal, and had been checked in to Tallaght Hosptial's Lynn Ward as a precaution. Somehow, the troubled teen escaped the hospital and took his own life, according to O'Connor.

"Like, how has a seventeen year old traumatised young person WHO WAS ON SUICIDE WATCH in Tallaght Hospital’s Lynn Ward been able to go missing???" an emotional O'Connor wrote Thursday. "Hospital of course so far refusing to take any responsibility. Anything happens to my son on their watch? Lawsuits."

"26 hours after my son died in the so called care of the Irish State in the form of Tusla, I have yet to receive any contact from Tusla or their representatives," O'Connor also tweeted. "No contact from Tusla is unacceptable."

In a series of tweets Saturday morning, O'Connor tore into Tallaght Hospital and Tusla, Ireland's child and family agency, over their alleged negligience and apparent inability to keep her teenage son from killing himself.

On Saturday, O'Connor continued her social media tirade against Tusla, accusing officials of refusing to take responsibility, calling their imminent press release "a load of lies," that are "couched as always in the omnipotent and false concern they claim to have for the privacy of the children who die on their watch."

As The Guardian reports, the teen was last seen on Friday morning in the Tallaght, Dublin area. His body was recovered later in the day and identified by his mother on Saturday afternoon. Condolences to Sinéad, who has three other children, and Shane's father Dónal Lunny have been pouring in across social media.