If you’ve ever been to a birthday party as a kid or thrown a party for a bunch of kids, you’ll know the menu usually includes a ton of tasty candies and treats, but now one mom is suing the hosts of the party for what they decided to include on the party menu.
Three months ago, Iris Estabrooks dropped her 11-year-old daughter Azriel at a friend’s birthday party, but an hour later she frantically rushed back after the birthday girl’s parents called her saying that Azriel had been found ‘passed out.’
Estabrooks got back to the party before even the ambulance arrived, but no one could tell her why her healthy 11-year-old was unconscious. When the ambulance finally arrived, paramedics found a marshmallow was stuck in the girl’s throat, which caused her to choke.
Azriel was rushed to the hospital but tragically passed away five days later, and now her parents are suing the party hosts who they claim “failed to… carefully review food choices to assure that nothing dangerous would be available to the young children, specifically, but not limited to, marshmallows.” The parents are also accusing the party hosts of failing to “have an adult present who was trained or skilled in clearing the airway of a choking child,” as well as failing to “specifically plan and carry out a protocol that would assure that no young child could wander off without being noticed.”
“When a healthy, normal child goes to a birthday party and ends up choking to death, questions of supervision and response to the emergency naturally arise,” said Stephen P. Sabra, the parents’ attorney. He also said the case was a reminder of how careful parents and caretakers need to be when watching other people’s children.
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Mom Sues After Daughter Choked To Death On Marshmallow At Party is an article from: LifeDaily