Grigsby's Story Analysis: Not Until A Boy Died

Not Until a Boy Died” the beginning of a worldwide crisis within the homes of small children. “Please do something, Grigsby remembers urging. When the plastic building sets broke, she told the operator, they shed powerful magnets inside her northern Indiana preschool. Grigsby didn't see the loose magnets, not much bigger than baby aspirin” (Callahan 2017 para 2). The fear in this statement started the first real outreaches towards the toy corporations and their dangerous toys they release. Magnetix is a magnetic construction toy consisting of a combination of plastic building pieces containing embedded neodymium magnets, and steel bearing balls that can be connected to form geometric shapes and structures. Thirty days went by, then another
“Thirty days went by, then another 30. No recall, no word from government investigators. The magnets that doctors removed from the preschooler's intestines -- corroded globs in a hospital specimen jar -- sat in a drawer in Grigsby's office waiting for an investigator to examine them.” Grigsby waited and waited with no time put into responding on the report. With being ignored, Grigsbys concerned turned in to worry about other children’s safety who might get ahold of the toys. After months of being ignored they finally heard that “as the agency slowly moved to address dangers of Magnetix toys, injuries mounted. To date, at least 27 children have suffered serious intestinal injuries after swallowing loose Magnetix magnets. Which just proves that the agency’s will wait until something fatal happens before real action starts to be taken. he corporations will deny the safety of children if no real harm comes to them A Tribune investigation found that Kenny Sweet's death is emblematic of how a weakened federal agency, in its myopic and docile approach to regulation, fails to protect children. The result: injury and death. (Callahan, 2006, para
To them the letter set them both to ease with their loss. Just three weeks before Kenny died, the division signed for a certified letter alerting the company that William Finley, the 4-year-old California boy, had been injured by a Magnetix toy. (Callahan, 2006, sec.6.para p.8) Had Mega Brands investigated, it would have discovered that three loose Magnetix magnets cut a hole in William's bowels, allowing deadly bacteria to spill into the child's abdomen. Emergency surgery saved him. (Callahan, 2006, sec.6.para.9) Since the corporation didn’t look deeply or really at all in to the reports or concerns of devastated parents, the tragic incident of Kenny could have been avoided if responsibility would have been taken when alert first shook them. Finally, the parents wrote a letter to their son Kenny sweets” Your days were spent teaching me how much joy existed in our world as every new experience was made more special because you were part of it," he wrote. "We would walk the yard together and touch and smell the many beautiful flowers in the spring and summer. If I put my coat on to run an errand, you would quickly grab your shoes and meet me at the front door." ... Today for me the sun doesn't shine as bright and the future holds less excitement because you are not here to share it with." (Callahan, 2006, final para). When Mr. and Mrs. sweets wrote the letter it