Disney Horror: AirTag Meant to Protect Nearly Kills Child, Siblings Left Traumatized

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Precious Eseaye
Precious Eseaye
Disney Horror: AirTag Meant to Protect Nearly Kills Child, Siblings Left Traumatized

A mother's attempt to enhance her children's safety at Disneyland took an alarming turn when an Apple AirTag, purchased for tracking, ironically led to her four-year-old daughter being hospitalized after swallowing one of its button batteries. Lisa Marie, who acquired four AirTags for a family trip to the Anaheim, California, theme park in April, found herself in a terrifying ordeal just weeks later.

After the AirTags malfunctioned during their holiday, Lisa stored them in her car's glovebox, intending to get them repaired. However, on May 23, while in the back of the car, her daughter Lily Grace made a distinctive 'gulping sound,' leading Lisa to the horrifying realization that Lily had ingested a coin-sized button battery. The family immediately rushed Lily to the hospital, where an x-ray scan confirmed the battery had already reached her bowel.

The family endured an agonizing four-day wait for the battery to pass naturally, a period filled with immense stress and fear, as Lily's three siblings worried she might die. Button batteries pose significant health risks, capable of causing severe damage by burning through the lining of a child's oesophagus or bowel, potentially creating a hole. The tragic case of two-year-old Johnathan Huff, who died in 2020 after swallowing remote control batteries that burned his internal organs, underscores these dangers.

Fortunately, Lily passed the battery without requiring surgery and experienced no lasting side effects. Lisa Marie, a stay-at-home mother originally from the US but now residing in Vancouver Island, Canada, recounted her distress, stating she believed her daughter's

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