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Falling flat-screen TVs a growing threat for kids

By Alex Johnson
msnbc.com

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Samara Brinkley dozed off just for a moment as she was watching cartoons on TV with her 4-year-old daughter.

Then “I heard the boom, and I woke up and I [saw] my child laying on the floor, and I [saw] a pool of blood coming out in the back of her head,” said Brinkley, 26, of Jacksonville, Fla.

Dymounique Wilson, one of Brinkley’s two daughters, died last Wednesday when the family’s 27-inch television fell over on her.

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