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A five-year-old-girl's arm was sucked into a tiny gap between an elevator and the wall and trapped there for three minutes.
Zoe Garatziotis suffered a gash on her wrist that needed 20 stiches to close, and now has a large and painful scar, and her family filed a lawsuit.
The little girl was having a pool day at the 1450 Washington at Hudson Tea apartment complex in Hoboken, New Jersey, last July and riding to the seventh floor.
She had her hand on the elevator door as it arrived and as the door opened it was dragged along with it, to the horror of her mother Loni Garatziotis.
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Zoe Garatziotis' arm was pulled into a tiny gap between an elevator and the wall and trapped there for three minutes
Security footage showed Loni and her friend Nicole, who were there with Zoe's brother and twin sister and two other children, straining to pull her arm out.
They tried hand sanitizer as a makeshift lubricant, but to no avail, and after three minutes finally pulled her free after slathering her arm in lotion a neighbor gave them.
Zoe needed monthly hospital visits to care for the wound after the family returned home to Palm Beach, Florida.
Her parents sued Taylor
