A South Florida jury has found McDonald's guilty of serving McNuggets at too hot of temperature, which resulted in at least one injury.
She ordered Happy Meals at a McDonald’s drive-through and handed the food to her children in the back seat. One of the nuggets from the 4-year-old daughter’s Happy Meal fell out and was pressed between the young girl’s thigh and seatbelt for two minutes, causing severe burns to her skin.
In addition to the injury the daughter sustained, the mother also must have experienced stress and trauma from not being able to help her autistic daughter in the backseat.
The defense team argued that the nuggets were only at a toasty 160 degrees, a temperature warm enough to prevent salmonella poisoning, while the prosecutors argued that the nuggets must have been over a scalding 200 degrees to cause such burns.
The jury is still out on just how much money Philana Holmes and her daughter will receive from McDonald’s USA and its franchise owner, Upchurch Foods.