22 month old chokes...

[Sprailenes 47]

http://www.momlogic.com/2009/02/child_chok...used_condom.php

What would you do if your 22-month-old boy choked on a used condom left behind in a hotel by a previous guest? That's exactly what happened to one family and now they're suing mad!

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According to a lawsuit filed by the Wolfe family of Pittsburg, Mass. they were heading home from the holidays in Florida, on Jan. 3, when they checked into room 142 of the Homewood Suites in Mount Laurel, NJ for a brief overnight stay before finishing their drive home.

The stay was uneventful until the morning they were scheduled to check out. Father Steven Wolfe had gone out to get breakfast and coffee, mom Amy Wolfe was helping their four-year-old son on the toilet and their nine-year-old daughter was playing Nintendo. What no one knew though was instead of being on the pull-out sofa watching TV, where everyone though he was, their toddler was chewing on a condom -- A USED CONDOM -- that had been left in the room by a previous hotel guest.

The mother, Amy, heard her little boy chewing and choking on the condom she rushed over and and tried to get it out of his mouth, but he had already "ingested the contents " the lawsuit stated.

The family's lawsuit claims hat Homewood Suites and its subsidiaries, Hilton and Blackstone, put the boy at risk by leaving the "life threatening" item in the room and subjecting the boy to an increased risk of contracting a "sexually transmitted disease, including HIV or AIDS, or some other, potentially life threatening, potentially fatal illness."

"The baby had to go through a lot of testing, and continues to, because of this disgusting, horrific incident that essentially violated the whole family, but mostly the young boy," said the Wolfes' attorney, Norm Hobbie, of Eatontown, Monmouth County. "It's an extremely sensitive time for them."

The 15-count complaint contends that all five Wolfes suffered severe mental anguish witnessing the incident, and that the boy's siblings likely would have "psychiatric scars" because of it.

It says that Steven Wolfe has been forced to spend "great sums of money" to help cure his wife of a "loss of enjoyment of life."

Momlogic called the Homewood Suites where the family stayed to see what they had to say about the Wolfe's lawsuit. We spoke to the manager Melanie who told us, "We don't comment on pending litigation."

What would you do in this situation? Besides being totally GROSS, the first thing you'll need to do is stop your child from choking! Check out how to do the Heimlich maneuver and CPR on infants and children.

Ugh that hotel is just down the road from me.

[Sister Fracas 5]

OMG!!!!!

[Jasman0717 9]

Ugh

[Nagishkaw 510]

Ick.

[Sprailenes 47]

The nastiest part was that he had already "ingested the contents" by the time his mother got the thing out of his mouth.

So nasty.

[Nagishkaw 510]

It's nasty, yet so sad at the same time.

[EstebanTrabajos 7]

uhhhhhh that boy is going to have a dark secret to hide in the near future

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Probably something to keep hidden from the kid when he grows up.

[Sprailenes 47]

"And then mommy and daddy got stinking rich... because.... we won the lottery... yeaaa thats it"

[EstebanTrabajos 7]

Let just say we just had a "money shot"

[Yoink 7]

Cha-ching.... but gross... I hope the parents don't give him the birds and bees convo in a decade and he has a relapse

[Nessa 23]

sick and gross

[one...two...tree 2,762]

It sounds too easy for a lawsuit. I hope the hotel has a good lawyer.

[alienlovechild 75]

The disease part is a legit fear but how much for "psychiatric scars"?

"The baby had to go through a lot of testing, and continues to, because of this disgusting, horrific incident that essentially violated the whole family, but mostly the young boy," said the Wolfes' attorney, Norm Hobbie, of Eatontown, Monmouth County. "It's an extremely sensitive time for them."

The 15-count complaint contends that all five Wolfes suffered severe mental anguish witnessing the incident, and that the boy's siblings likely would have "psychiatric scars" because of it.

It says that Steven Wolfe has been forced to spend "great sums of money" to help cure his wife of a "loss of enjoyment of life."[/quote]

What exactly did the father pay for to "cure" his wife?

It this case is true, there should some settlement but expect plenty of phonies to claim their infant was choking on a condom. It's easier to do than say put a human finger in a bowl of Wendy's chili.

[mawilson 2,133]

I always leave used condoms in hotel rooms for babies to choke on. The hardest part is to get them to ingest the contents.