Children rushed to hospital after drinking caustic substance

The restaurant is at 2232 Lincoln Highway East near the Tanger Outlets. It serves all-you-can-eat meals featuring Chinese food and sushi as well as Italian and American dishes.

Manager Steve Weng said nothing like this has happened at the Star Buffet in the year he’s been there.

He said the apple juice was bought at a local supermarket and he has no idea how it became contaminated.

Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital officials said Richie was in serious condition Saturday night and Ginaya wasn't listed as a patient.

No test results regarding the caustic substance have yet been released, hospital officials said. East Lampeter Township police reported a test was still pending as of Saturday.

Davis, a city resident who turns 33 later this month, said she and her brother-in-law, Luis Mercado, had all four of her children with her on Friday: Richie, Ginaya, 6-year-old Miguel Mercado and 7-month-old Anthony Mercado.

The drinks came while Luis and the three older children were getting food. When they came back and started eating, Ginaya was the first to take a sip.

“She starting spitting saliva out” and soon threw up, saying her stomach hurt, Davis said. But Davis figured her daughter had just gotten sick.

But after Richie started screaming and throwing up blood, Luis Mercado put a cup to his mouth and realized it tasted like acid. He started spitting up blood, too, Davis said.

Medical personnel examined him, but he did not need to be taken to a hospital.

Miguel’s apple juice was fine, Davis said.

Zaragoza, also a city resident, said the children had gotten individual juice containers at the restaurant before. This time, the juice came in foam cups.

Davis said doctors told her the children would remain under sedation for several days.

East Lampeter Township police confirmed they responded to the incident Friday evening, but did not immediately provide further details.

Because of Richie’s illnesses, he has a gastronomy tube or “G tube” in his stomach and a port in his arm for IV medications, Zaragoza said. He gets oxygen nightly and nutrition supplements through the G tube.

Zaragoza’s Facebook post about the incident was shared more than 1,600 times, sparking hundreds of comments expressing sympathy for the family and outrage over what they suffered.

Both parents are upset, hoping and praying for the children’s swift and full recovery.

“We were supposed to be celebrating his birthday,” Davis said.

What the fuck was in that apple juice?? Sounds like acid of some kind.

>It serves all-you-can-eat meals featuring Chinese food and sushi as well as Italian and American dishes.
Yet the kid was poisoned by the apple juice. What an incredibly unlucky kid.

>>118746
Maybe someone was trying to put him out of his misery because CF is a terrifying way to die

>>118739
>“She starting spitting saliva out” and soon threw up, saying her stomach hurt, Davis said. But Davis figured her daughter had just gotten sick.
So he did nothing while his daughter threw up? He continued as if everything was normal, or was it such a quick succession of events that he couldn't do anything? I am having a hard time wrapping my head around this.

>>118876
common sense bro
>burns in mouth and throat
>stomach burns
>contaminated apple juice
>pains in stomach, throat and mouth

how can you not wrap your head round that one bit with the daughter vomitting?

she obviously drank the apple juice in a quick gulp or two, burning her mouth and throat on the way down,
so when it hit the stomach in that quick gulp may had been a bit to much so her stomach purged it
given the situation i guess the father was first in shock, at her puking and thought she may had been sick until both children would have started crying and screaming in pain within moments after it entering their mouthes.

>>118883
I meant the Dad's reaction
>But Davis figured her daughter had just gotten sick.
He wasn't thrown off by his daughter throwing up in the restaurant, and just went about his business?

fucking parents did it

>>118885
Kids at that age just get sick sometimes they usually throw up and thats the end of it, happens at least once a month for the queasier kids.

>>118888
I was thinking this might be the case as well.

>>118885
>He wasn't thrown off by his daughter throwing up in the restaurant, and just went about his business?
You've never dealt with children before, have you?

>>118738
Sounds like heavy duty oven/grill cleaner. That shit burns to touch. It does look alot like A.J.
Past that the bottles have no similiarity so, how the fuck did it get into a juice bottle?

>>118738
This kid is going to have a heck of a birthday story

>>119004
he is kill...

what do you expect? when you read something about chinese, the first thing that must pop out of your head is "fake" have we people not see the videos on the rekt thread,

>>118745
>acid of some kind.

scientistfacepalm.jpg

http://www.ydr.com/story/news/watchdog/2017/03/06/buffet-where-kids-were-hurt-had-failed-8-inspections/98799480/

>Because restaurants are not required to post notice of failed health inspections, consumers would have no idea that the restaurant had been out of compliance unless they checked the state database or asked the restaurant for its health inspection report.

I smell a business opportunity.

somebody is going to win a pretty nice settlement in the near future over this

>>118970

>Served in cups instead of bottles

What you're saying makes a lot of sense

I'm in hershey saw this on the local news last night. The dad got interviewed and was pissed as fuck someone's gonna get sued real bad

>>118739
>This time, the juice came in foam cups.
What kind of "restaurant" serves shit in foam cups?

>>118970
>Sounds like heavy duty oven/grill cleaner. That shit burns to touch.
Wouldn't it burn through a foam cup though?

>>119084
Either that, or the parents are going to jail and never seeing their kids again.

What happened to the poisoned apple juice? Are they going to run tests on it?

>>119044
>restaurants are not required to post notice of failed health inspections

Fucking Pennsylvania. Here every restaurant is required to post their latest inspection by the door (either on the window/door, or in the entranceway).

>>119137
They also said they bought the juice from a supermarket, which is retarded because they should be buying from a wholesaler like any halfway competent restaurant.

Sounds like management has been shitting the bed for a while.

>>119165
>they should be buying from a wholesaler
I would say that depends on the volume of apple juice being sold. Seems like a low-demand product for some cut-rate buffet.

>>119137
>>119165
>>119169
>had served "individual juice containers" before
>this time served super market juice in foam cups
They probably buy juiceboxes for kids from a wholesaler like most restaurants do, and bought bottled juice and cups at a nearby store because they ran out of the juice boxes.

>>118738
Not really news worthy: low intelligence, wage slaves often fuck up with where they store the cleaning supplies. My bet is that some tard used a pitcher to measure some industrial strength cleaner and then half assed rinsing it out. Then another tard used the pitcher for Apple juice.

A smart manager would fire any tard using service items with cleaning supplies.

It was probably a degreaser that some retard employee picked up carelessly.