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Article: Deaths in cradles haunt families Concerns raised on design, testing
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 4, 1994
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Did Alexander Marden have to die?
Nearly three years after they found their 3-month-old son dead in
a cradle swing at their West Bridgewater home, John and Ruth Marden
are still haunted by that question.
There are few things worse than burying a child, but what the
Mardens have discovered in the wake of their son's death makes it
even harder for them to accept.
They have learned several infants died in the same kind of cradle
swing before their son died, including one more than a year before.
They have learned that Graco, the Pennsylvania-based company that
manufactured the cradle, did not pull it off the market immediately
after being informed of the initial deaths.
And they have learned ...