Wales Mom Claims ‘Cry Baby’ Doll She Brought For Daughter Makes Crude, Sexual Noises [Video]
A mother from Wales says she’s shocked and heartbroken over being unable to give her 2-year-old daughter the Christmas present she desires most.
Gail Turley of Aberdare, 33, explained to Wales Online that her toddler Kayla had repeatedly pleaded for a ‘Cry Baby’ doll, an animatronic likeness of a real-life infant, ever since she saw an ad for the toy on television.
“It’s the only thing she’s asked for [this Christmas],” Turley relayed. “She saw it on the telly and has been shouting ‘Cry Baby! Cry Baby!’ ever since.”
Hoping to get a good deal on what would surely be a red-hot item for the gifting season, Gail avoided mainstream shopping mediums, such as Amazon.com, and instead focused on bidding site, eBay.com.
“I bought one on [there], and got it delivered,” she continued. “I put it on my shelf, [readying it] to wrap, but I thought I’d [first] give it a try to see if it needed batteries.”
Once she did, she turned the doll around and removed its pacifier to trigger the “crying” sound effect. That’s when, Turley says, she heard something she wasn’t expecting: very adult-like erotic noises.
“I was shocked,” she exclaimed. “I thought ‘Oh my God, I can’t give this to Kayla now!'”
Even stranger, Turley adds, is that several of her friends who also purchased “Cry Baby” dolls for their children are also hearing the very same XXX-rated sounds.
“They all sound the same, apparently. My friend just bought one and her husband had to take it back.”
The makers of the “Cry Baby” line, Baby Wow, note the dolls as three sisters; red-haired Cry Baby Lola, Cry Baby Coney with pink locks, and their purple follicle sibling, Cry Baby La La, who cry “real” tears that can be wiped away with napkins that come along with each purchase.
Furthermore, the dolls are said to make “realistic baby noises,” including the occasional wail or burp.
Along with Turley and her group of friends, a number of those who have purchased a “Cry Baby” doll from Amazon.com have also complained about the toy’s alleged dirty sounds.
“It sounds like a dodgy porn star,” one user stated. “My daughter likes her [doll], but my hubby and I are rather freaked out!”
Another Amazon customer remarked, “If a [real] baby sounds like this doll, I’d be very worried!”
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— Wales (@Wales_News_) December 18, 2016
Gail swears that she heard more innocent vocalizations coming from the “Cry Baby” toy during the promotional ads.
“I listened to the advert on telly and it had a baby crying, so I assumed this baby would be the same.” she states. “But it sounds erotic — that’s the only way I can describe it. When you see something advertised [on television], you expect it to be like that, especially with kids!”
Baby Wow has yet to comment on the “Cry Baby” doll matter, but stories like it are quite common. One of the most notable involved the incoherent ramblings of a Po doll, the likeness of the red Teletubby from the popular English children’s television import, Teletubbies.
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As reported by both the Herald-Mail and CBS News back in 1998, a group of parents claimed to have heard the Po doll spout an anti-gay slur and the phrase, “bite my butt,” when squeezed.
The license owners of the product, Itsy Bitsy Entertainment Co., denied any in-house tampering or malfunction on their end, and responded that most had probably confused a Cantonese phrase, “fidit, fidit” — or “faster, faster!” — as the supposed bad word.
Despite the public outcry, the Teletubby plush went on to become one of the biggest selling toys of the 1998 holiday season.
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