Could they not have waited until they got home to eat? This is a grocery store, where nearly every kind of snack or treat has a warning label on it. As a mother of a child with such a deadly allergy, she should know better. When your child has an allergy that can kill him, you KNOW what is and is not a danger. You read the labels and are familiar with the products that are made in a special facility free of any tree nuts or peanuts, which a grocery store bakery clearly is NOT, and just by a cursory glance at their baked goods, you see the nuts on them. You are VIGILANT because to not be can mean death to your child.
What a horrible, horrible lesson to have learned. She likely cannot come to grips with the fact that HER actions led to death of her baby boy. She needs someone else to be responsible, because the truth is just too awful to contemplate.
My heart breaks for her; she has to live with this. This is such a tragic story.
And I do NOT like all this lawsuit business!
But there is no way to know that food has not been contaminated. If you can't trust the labeling, what can you trust?
I do think such tragedies will make food providers more aware of the problem and more vigilant and careful.
I also think it will produce a big windfall for the manufacturers of disclaimer labels.