{"id":6880,"date":"2025-02-17T22:07:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T22:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/mother-continues-fight-for-justice-nearly-a-decade-after-her-baby-died-in-product-that-was-later-recalled\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T22:07:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T22:07:17","slug":"mother-continues-fight-for-justice-nearly-a-decade-after-her-baby-died-in-product-that-was-later-recalled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/mother-continues-fight-for-justice-nearly-a-decade-after-her-baby-died-in-product-that-was-later-recalled\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother continues fight for justice nearly a decade after her baby died in product that was later recalled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>A New York mother has spent nearly a decade fighting for justice after her 6-week-old son died while sleeping in a baby product that was later voluntarily recalled.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, Kiersten Connolly gave birth to healthy twins, Jameson and Dorothy. She said that with the help of Fisher-Price Rock n&#8217; Play Sleepers, she and her fianc\u00e9, James Hatch, were actually getting some sleep.<\/p>\n<p>On May 16 that year, Hatch put the infants to sleep in their Rock n&#8217; Plays. A few hours later, Connolly&#8217;s world changed forever.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I heard James scream out and, I don&#8217;t know \u2026I think I just knew,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Connolly&#8217;s son Jameson had stopped breathing in his sleep.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It took my life. It took everything from me,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Connolly said they waited over a year for answers as to what happened, but never got any. Jameson&#8217;s death certificate stated that the cause of death was undetermined.<\/p>\n<h2>Product recalled years later<\/h2>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t until 2019, four years after Jameson&#8217;s death, that Connolly said she stumbled upon startling news. Fisher-Price announced a voluntary\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpsc.gov\/Recalls\/2019\/Fisher-Price-Recalls-Rock-n-Play-Sleepers-Due-to-Reports-of-Deaths\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">recall of its Rock n&#8217; Play inclined sleeper<\/a>, the same product Connolly&#8217;s son died in.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8220;The anger I felt was \u2026 it was my whole body. It was palpable,&#8221; Connolly said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission&#8217;s records, the product had been tied to <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/infant-sleepers-regulations-deaths-recall\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">at least 100 infant deaths<\/a><\/span> since 2012. A study it commissioned found the angle of the incline increased the risk of asphyxiation and suffocation.<\/p>\n<h2>Congressional investigation<\/h2>\n<p>Shortly after the recall, <a href=\"https:\/\/oversightdemocrats.house.gov\/news\/press-releases\/oversight-hearing-reveals-previously-unknown-infant-deaths-in-fisher-price-s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a congressional investigation<\/a> concluded that Fisher-Price &#8220;<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/fisher-price-rock-n-play-infant-sleeper-deaths-house-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">failed to ensure the Rock n&#8217; Play was safe<\/a><\/span> before bringing it to market&#8221; and found Fisher-Price was &#8220;aware of injuries and deaths in the Rock n&#8217; Play as early as 2012.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even after the CPSC warned the company of safety risks in 2018, it took more than a year for Fisher-Price to recall the product.<\/p>\n<p>Mattel, the parent company of Fisher-Price, did not respond to CBS News&#8217; requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They knew for years that infants were dying and not disclosing it, and during that time, many other infants died,&#8221; said Regina Calcaterra, who represents seven families \u2014 including Connolly \u2014 whose babies died in Rock n&#8217; Plays.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, without admitting guilt, Mattel settled with several families, but Connolly&#8217;s case was dismissed. The company argued in court that New York&#8217;s two-year statute of limitations had passed and Connolly needed to have filed her case before May 2017, which was two years prior to the voluntary recall of their product.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re actually weaponizing the statute of limitations,&#8221; Calcaterra said, alleging that &#8220;for years, they hid the fact that babies were dying.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What they were doing was pushing it down the line. So by the time the recall actually happened, the infants that died early on were not able to file a case,&#8221; Calcaterra alleged.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut blames a law that requires the CPSC, the government agency responsible for evaluating products for safety, to get permission from a manufacturer, like Mattel in Connolly&#8217;s case, before it&#8217;s allowed to warn the public of possible dangers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s really no effective oversight of baby products before they&#8217;re used by your infant,&#8221; Blumenthal said. &#8220;Often, safety issues arise, sometimes causing death, and years pass before there&#8217;s any effective action. This system is broken.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Connolly said she has found strength for her two living children, but her loss is immeasurable. Two years after her son&#8217;s death, her fiance died by suicide \u2014 consumed with grief, she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Connolly lost her appeal, but said she won&#8217;t give up and hopes her story saves lives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will never stop this, this fight and the pursuit to bring justice to the both of them,&#8221; she said of her two living children, prior to her appeal.<\/p>\n<p>In a previous report, Mattel responded to the congressional investigation, telling CBS News it &#8220;disagrees with significant parts&#8221; of the findings. 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