In the third such incident since Christmas, a little girl's hair got caught in the mouth of a battery-powered Cabbage Patch doll that mimics eating.
Three-year-old Carly Mize started crying when her doll snagged her hair Thursday, and her mother said a patch of hair was pulled right out of her scalp."I thought maybe she had stuck her finger in the doll's mouth, so I checked her fingers, but she was still crying," said her mother, Tammy Mize of Easley. "When I picked Carly up, the doll was attached to the back of her head.
"It kept rolling her hair inside the head," she said. "It pulled her hair completely from the root. She is completely bald for maybe a hands-length all the way down the back of her head."
Also on Thursday, a doll belonging to 7-year-old Sarah Stevens of Griffith, Ind., had to be taken apart piece by piece when it chewed its way up her hair to her scalp.
Sarah's aunt, Kelly Nagy, and the owner of the hair salon where the incident happened, worked 30 minutes to free the little girl's hair.
"She must have had it lying by her hair, and it must have sucked it down," Nagy said.
Early Saturday, one of the dolls chewed the hair of 7-year-old Amanda Gomez of New Haven, Conn. Her family told WFSB-TV that emergency workers had to take the batteries out of the doll and cut the girl's hair to free her.