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After a two week old baby girl died in a rocking sleeper chair, her devastated mum has issued a hear
Mar 8, 2023
After a two week old baby girl died in a rocking sleeper chair, her devastated mum has issued a hear.
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Erica Richter's daughter Emma was just
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two weeks old when she died nearly three
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years ago while using a Fisher-Price
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Rock and play sleeper I think about her
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all the time
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I think about what life would be like
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with her still around
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she'd be three years old Richter told
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Good Morning America well I see children
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I think about her all the time because I
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just never expected life to be like this
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before we start can we get this video to
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1 000 likes please hit the like button
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and subscribe to the channel now Richard
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is using her voice to speak out so that
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no other parents have to endure what she
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has with Emma's death Victor took part
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in a congressional hearing this Monday
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that followed up on a report from the
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house committee on oversight and reform
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that found Fisher Price ignored repeated
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warnings that its Rock and play sleeper
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was dangerous before the device was
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recalled in April 2019.
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now this is all I have to remember my
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daughter her outfit from the hospital
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that still smells like her
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we trusted a name brand and we were
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wrong
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to The Honorable members of this
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committee I ask you would you put your
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children or your grandchildren in the
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sleeper Erica Richter of Portland Oregon
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holds her newborn daughter Emma in 2018.
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the oversight committee's report based
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on a two zero-month investigation
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alleged that Fisher Price failed to
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adequately consult with pediatricians or
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take other key steps to ensure the Rock
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and play's design was safe before
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releasing it to the public and that it
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ignored multiple warnings from
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International Regulators pediatricians
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and customers that the product was
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dangerous
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weak Federal oversight allowed the
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product to stay on the market for a
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decade the report said during that time
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the company took in at least dollar 200
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million in Revenue according to the
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report
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the report found more than 50 infant
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debts were linked to the sleeper at the
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time of its release prevailing Medical
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Science held that infants should sleep
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flat on their backs on a firm surface
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The Rock and play puts infants at a 30
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degree incline many of the children who
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died were younger than three months old
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according to an analysis by the consumer
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reports published just days before the
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2019 recall
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the cause of death for some of the
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babies was asphyxia or the inability to
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breed do the child's position
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when I got the Fisher Price Rock and
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play sleeper I didn't think anything of
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it other than it was a Fisher-Price
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product so it must be safe and if so
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many parents are using it and raving
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about it then certainly adequate testing
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was done and it's safe to use Richter
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told GMA
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it didn't cross my mind that this
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product was called the Fisher Price Rock
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and play sleeper would be unsafe in any
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way
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there was nothing that occurred to me
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that would indicate that it wouldn't be
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safe for Emma to use she said Erica
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Richard's daughter Emma died in a rock
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and play sleeper in August 2018.
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Richter said she only found out after
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Emma's death about reports of other
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deaths associated with The Rock and play
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which she heard from news reports and
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other mothers coming forward
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I think about what life would be like if
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I had known
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and I think about other mothers a lot
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she said being able to finally join some
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of the mothers in a more public way has
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been something that's been really
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important to me and something that I've
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been waiting a really long time for
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because my heart goes out to all of them
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we're kind of in this club that nobody
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wants to be in that nobody should ever
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be in it's just so tragic that it had to
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go on for this long Victor added I
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really commend all the other mothers who
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have come forward and to have talked
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about this because that's how we can
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save lives as if we're talking about it
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while Richard said she finds blame in
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corporate culture at Fisher Price and
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has a regulatory problem she also sees
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it as a consumer awareness issue saying
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that mothers like herself need to stick
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together
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we need to talk about this and we need
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mothers to talk about this with each
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other and families said Victor Who's
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involved in litigation against Fisher
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Price we can take this and share this
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information with each other and save the
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children's lives Erica richer whose
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daughter died in a rock and play sleeper
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in August 2018
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speaks to Good Morning America
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Fisher Price said in a statement to ABC
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news that there's nothing more important
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to the company than the safety of its
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products and that its heart goes out to
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every family who suffered a loss
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The Rock and play sleeper was designed
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and developed following extensive
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research medical advice safety analysis
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and more than a year of testing and
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review
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Fisher Price spokesperson said it met or
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exceeded all applicable regulatory
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standards as recently as 2017 the U.S
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consumer product safety commission
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proposed to adopt an ASTM voluntary
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standard for a 30 degree angled inclined
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sleeper as federal law independent
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medical and other expert analysis
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verified that the sleeper was safe when
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used in accordance with its instructions
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and warnings the spokesperson said on
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Monday Fisher Price recalled its four in
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one rock and glide soothers a model of
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baby soothers after four infants who
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were unrestrained and placed on their
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backs were later found dead lying on
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their stomachs
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a similar product the two in one
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soothing play glider has also been
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recalled no doubts have been linked to
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it earlier this month the consumer
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product safety commission approved a new
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federal rule for infant Sleep Products
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that will go into effect in 2022
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products will need to be tested to
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confirm that the angle of the sleeping
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surface is 10 degrees or lower and that
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they comply with the cbsc safety
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standards for bassinets and cradles
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Richter said she hopes to see an
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independent Authority established to
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oversee the safety measures of Fisher
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Price moving forward
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she's calling on Congress to repeal
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provision 6B of the consumer product
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safety act that she claims allows
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companies like Fisher Price to
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self-regulate when it comes to product
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safety the way the system is set up the
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agency that's there to protect consumers
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consumer product safety commission
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actually can't do its job she said
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accountability to me is a government
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function my government stepping up and
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changing that speaking of what
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individuals can do to bring change
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Richter added we can certainly act we
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can call our elected officials and
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express outrage we have mechanisms to
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correct the system