Pursuits
The Cheap Toys You Buy Your Kid Are Rarely Inspected
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On a Sunday evening in December 2011, 4-year-old Ixchel Tamayo was coloring a poster of Jessie, one of her favorite characters from the Disney film “Toy Story,” with six white-capped mini-markers.
Ixchel ran back and forth to her parents, who were hosting a prayer group in the dining room of their Philadelphia home, to show off the poster. The last time, she was gasping for air as she clutched a capless marker. She died of asphyxiation at the hospital with the cap stuck in her windpipe.