Too busy to save babies

Rick Perlstein's picture

"We get so many cases. Once I do a report, I send it in and that’s it. I go to the next case. We could spend more time, but we are under the gun. We have to move on.”

That's the explanation of the Consumer Product Safety Commission's investigator on why they weren't able to warn parents about a crib whose faulty design caused seven infants to be trapped and three to die.

Read the whole thing.





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