‘She couldn’t breathe’: California girl suffered brain damage and became a quadriplegic after eating gummy bears

The family of Amelie Paredes Sotelo, a 3-year-old minor from California, United States who choked on a jelly bean and suffered brain damage and was a quadriplegic, sued the candy company that made the ‘candy’ on December 28, 2023. Land sticky dot’.

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According to the testimony of Maria Sotelo, the minor’s mother, her daughter only bit off half of the candy. However, the candy was so sticky that it blocked the girl’s airway, so she had to be rushed to an emergency medical center.

Upon arrival, doctors had to use a special machine to remove the gums, resulting in a slightly delayed procedure that left the minor with a severe lack of oxygen. This caused permanent brain damage and spastic quadriplegia.

The candy “deposited in Amelie’s oropharynx, in the back of her throat (…). “He was unable to breathe for an extended period of time,” the family’s statement shared by ABC News 4 said.

The incident was recorded by the minor’s parents, Francisco Paredes Rivera and Maria Aylin Sotelo Camacho. In the video, you can see the parents running to their three-year-old daughter, Amelie, as she began to choke.

The family sued the company

The family filed a lawsuit against Frankford Candy & Chocolate Company, Frankford Candy LLC and Hasbro in Philadelphia, United States on December 28, alleging that the candy, called ‘Candy Land Gummy Dots’, did not come with adequate warnings.

According to ABC News 4, court documents state that the candy used by the minor was “made in a manner and in a mixture that makes it unreasonably dangerous, due to its extreme viscosity and inability to be properly broken down by the penetration of human saliva,” ABC According to News 4.

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