Released: November 13, 2009

Dangers of window blind cords illustrated

Source: Liz F. Kay, Baltimore Sun (Free Registration)

Kathleen Leeson was loading clothes in her dryer just a few dozen feet away from her foster son in August when he accidentally strangled himself with the window blind cords in her Montgomery Village home.

In just a few seconds, and with no noise, the 2-year-old boy was unconscious. Angel Duenas would die later in a hospital, one of the 12 children per year killed on average by dangerous window coverings.

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