An Indiana girl could have died after swallowing thirty magnetic parts of one of her toys. Eight-year-old Haley Lents was lucky to have survived eight holes the magnets tore in her intestines.
Haley was playing with her Magnetix building set about two weeks ago when for an unknown reason, she decided to swallow the toy's balls and bars. She was rushed to Riley's Children's Hospital in Indianapolis for emergency surgery.
Haley says she feels good now, but learned her lesson. Her parents say they want to keep the tragedy from happening to another family. Jason and Amy Lents say the warning on the packaging is not enough and want the toy removed from store shelves and from Haley's school classroom.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is investigating Magnetix and Haley's case. Lents says Mega Brands asked him to send them the toy and issued a statement saying a redesigned, magnetic-free toy would be in stores in July.
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