Thread: Tot Choked on Condom in Hotel Room, Parents Sue

Suit: Tot choked on condom | Philadelphia Daily News | 01/30/2009

When Amy Wolfe heard her youngest child chewing and choking on the condom, she rushed over to help him and retrieved it from his mouth, but according to the lawsuit, the boy already had "ingested the contents."

I don't believe the hotel should be responsible unless the condom was lying out in the open (which isn't likely, since the family didn't see it the night before). A little kid is capable of getting into a lot of areas that an adult (like the cleaning crews) can't. It's perfectly reasonable to expect that there are some things that the cleaning crews won't find.

IMO, if anyone's responsible it's the family. The kid (22 mos old) wasn't in a crib, and he had no supervision. Condom or not, most hotels aren't child-proofed like a home with children would be. Someone should have been watching the kid.

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.

The four year old is definitely too young to understand it, and the nine year old probably is too. These people jumped at their chance to get rich.

ewwww

thAt's pretty sick

You guys are all missing the picture, you guys are focusing on the fact that he choked on a condom (which may be gross but honestly lets not all focus on that fact). The question here is who is to blame and what is to be done about it.

Fact, the room was not clean. Which I am pretty sure it has to go through a thorough cleaning after every checkout. I don't think ANY of you would sleep in a hotel if they told you when you went in "Oh hey don't worry about it but we didn't wash our sheets and you may find a used a condom which MAY have an STI".

The bottom line is this kid is going to have some serious things to go through if he has contracted an STI. The Family IMO isn't to blame, you're telling me you are going to leave your kid in a crib at all times when you aren't holding him? BULLSHI* like hell you are, sure someone should have been watching the child but who's to say they weren't but the child on the toilet needed help at that particular moment? I dont know about you but at age 9 I had already seen a skin flick and a condom and drugs and booze so I would remember if my sibling had ingested a condom, not to mention how many times this is going to be brought up in the future.

NO I sure as hell don't think this is one of the "give me money, NOW!" schemes. I would defend this family until the day I died. Yes they will get money for what happened but no it will not be some huge substantial sum that will make all you people go "oooh look how much money they got".

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first off u hire cleaning people to clean the rooms.... up and down clean the rooms.........so what i rent a hotel room and only the obvious spots r supposed to be clean ...no they should clean the whole f'in room........ i would sew everybody.......

please tell me it wasnt a used rubber? lmao this is sad but at the same time gross.... wow JUST WOW

who would think a Hotel room would be sterile?

yea really what smart parenting

Originally Posted by 1998xGTP

Fact, the room was not clean. Which I am pretty sure it has to go through a thorough cleaning after every checkout. I don't think ANY of you would sleep in a hotel if they told you when you went in "Oh hey don't worry about it but we didn't wash our sheets and you may find a used a condom which MAY have an STI".

I'm sure it was cleaned to a reasonable standard. We can't know for certain without knowing where the condom was, but since the family spent the night and the kid didn't find it until the next morning it's safe to assume it wasn't out in the open.

There are places under and behind furniture that kids can reach but adults can't. The maids don't remove the furniture to clean the room, and it's not reasonable to expect them to (unless you want to pay them a lot more). Leaving your child unattended in your own home (which should be reasonable child-proofed) is one thing, but a hotel room is a different situation entirely. There are plenty of dangers to small children in hotel rooms besides used condoms.

The maids can't be expected to catch everything that could fall under/behind the furniture, and parents should be more careful in a hotel than they need to be in their own home.

How do we know the condom wasn't out in the open? Maybe the child slept all night and they had him out for a few moments. The child was on the pullout for gods sakes, you are telling me that the pullout shouldn't be cleaned or at least checked? We wouldn't even be having this if the child had died, everyone would be up in arms saying they should sue and the hotel should be put out business and there should be stiffer regulations and routines they should have to follow.

^I wouldn't be saying that even if the child had died. I'd be saying that, if the parents have more children than they can effectively watch, they should have them in a pen when they're in a non child-proofed area (like a hotel room). What if the kid had choked on a nickel, or been electrocuted playing with an electrical cord? Even without the condom there are plenty of dangers in a hotel room that wouldn't be in a child's nursery at home.

You're all for stiffer regulations, but how much do you want to pay for them? Many hotel maids aren't even strong enough to move heavy furniture all day long, and they certainly won't do it for the wages they're paid as maids. Do you really want to pay to have movers come in and move the furniture in every room every day to make sure nothing's fallen behind or underneath it?

Originally Posted by Warhellride

The maids can't be expected to catch everything that could fall under/behind the furniture, and parents should be more careful in a hotel than they need to be in their own home.

actually..we are. the first thing I did was walk through the room,make sure noone was in it..strip the entire bed take the bedding outside..clean everything!we move and clean under the bed and TV. We were even required to make sure nothing was under the matress.

If that maid did not see the condom..she was obviously not trained to look for drugs. I have found used condoms,porn,drugs,guns,wallets,jewelry,teeth..eve rything i can't and couldn't imagine at 20 years old!

wow thats intense man