A Dec. 28 lawsuit alleges that a California toddler lost the use of all four limbs and suffered severe brain damage after choking on a sticky candy.
Amelie Paredes Sotelo, 3, became a quadriplegic after a Candyland gummy dot blocked her airway and caused a brain injury when medical professionals struggled to remove the candy, according to the complaint. It is said that news wire report.
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“These candies were a ticking time bomb. Once a happy, energetic child, now permanently disabled, unable to speak, swallow, move, and remain disabled for the rest of his life.” We will continue to pursue justice for this innocent girl,” said attorney Thomas Bosworth. He represents children and their families, he said. “It is shocking that just one of these dangerous gel candies in her body could cause this level of brain damage.”
According to the report, footage captured by the family's Ring doorbell camera on December 13, 2022 shows the victim's parents, Francisco Paredes Rivera and Maria Airin Sotelo Camacho, removing candy from their daughter. The video shows them trying various methods to try to solve the problem. Sotelo reportedly currently suffers from convulsive quadriplegia as a result of brain damage sustained without oxygen. The girl is reportedly unable to control most bodily functions and she must be fed through a permanent gastronomy tube.
According to the complaint, the victim was taken to the hospital, where doctors eventually aspirated the candy from the oropharynx at the back of his throat, but doctors found that “due to the product's excessive stickiness and unusual lack of flexibility, “It was extremely difficult,” he said. (Related: State seizes $170,000 worth of drug-laced candy and snacks ahead of Halloween)
Philadelphia-based Frankford Candy and Chocolate Co. and Frankford Candy LLC, along with Rhode Island-based toy company Hasbro, have been sued for product liability, failure to warn, negligence and negligence, according to the paper. He was accused of causing bodily harm. The complaint alleges that the companies designed the candies to “cause a tendency to abnormally adhere to tissues of the palate, oropharynx, throat, hypopharynx, trachea, and esophagus.”
