Toddler chokes to death on carrot at daycare
A two-year-old girl at a Long Island, N.Y., daycare choked to death on Tuesday after she helped herself to some carrot sticks from her teacher’s bag.
No criminal charges are likely to be filed in the death of Olivia Raspanti of Hicksville, according to the Associated Press. However, officials shut down the Carousel Day Care School, because it did not have a proper license to operate. The center’s Web site claims it has been in business since 1956.
Raw carrots are one of the foods that the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends keeping away from children younger than 4 unless they are closely supervised. For more information on children and choking hazards, click here.
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