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About Us > Danny's Story
On May 12, 1998, 16-month-old Daniel Keysar (pictured at right) was strangled to death at his licensed
childcare facility when a Playskool Travel-Lite portable crib collapsed, trapping his neck in the
"V" of its folded rails.
Shortly thereafter, Danny's parents, University of Chicago
professors Linda Ginzel and Boaz Keysar, discovered that the
Playskool
Travel-Lite crib had been recalled in 1993. Three children died in these cribs before
the recall and a fourth in 1995. Danny became the crib's fifth victim.
A 10-month-old New Jersey baby, became the sixth child to be strangled to
death by the Playskool crib just three months later.
From 1990 to 1997 more than 1.5 million portable cribs with a similar dangerous design were manufactured. A
total of 16 children have been killed by these types of cribs.
Mobilizing their grief into a movement of positive change, Danny's parents founded KID after
they discovered their son's death was not an accident, as they had originally
thought, but a tragedy that occurred as the result of a flawed system.
Today KID is working to reform the juvenile product system so that potentially dangerous products
never reach the marketplace.
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Danny Keysar
(b) 12/31/1996
(d) 05/12/1998
On May 12, 1998, 16-month-old Daniel Keysar was strangled to death at his
licensed daycare facility when a Playskool Travel-Lite portable crib collapsed,
trapping his neck in the V of its folded rails.
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For more information, check out:
Product Hazards/Portable Cribs
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