Dolls Continue to Take Biting Toll

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. Carly Mize, 3, of Easley, S.C., started crying when her doll snagged her hair. Her mother, Tammy Mize, said a patch of hair was pulled out of her scalp. The Cabbage Patch Snack Time Kid doll, which is supposed to “eat” plastic French fries and other fake food, has no on-off switch. A doll belonging to Sarah Stevens, 7, of Griffith, Ind., had to be taken apart piece by piece when it chewed its way up her hair to her scalp. One doll chewed the hair of 7-year-old Amanda Gomez of New Haven, Conn. Fewer than 10 such incidents have been reported to the doll’s manufacturer, Mattel Inc., a company spokeswoman said.