An X-ray showed Beck, who has autism, swallowed magnets from a magnetic building toy -- 13 in all, WTMJ reported.
His parents didn’t realize that Beck had eaten the magnets after snapping the toys apart.
Jennifer White said the magnets cut holes in his intestines as they tried to connect to each other, through his organs.
"I really thought these were safe. Absolutely thought that he would be OK. If I had any inkling that this would have happened, I would have just got rid of them," Jennifer White told WTMJ.
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