Basically I'm asking this because I'm trying to understand. I see two options:
option 1: the oven is lacking several expected safety features and it is actually dangerous.
option 2: the oven has the usual safety features, you (and your toddler) were perfectly safe, you just didn't know this because you don't understand how gas ovens functions, and what safety features they have.
On any modern oven if you turn the gas on and the flame goes out (or does not light at all) the gas flow stops. You have to keep the knob pressed in to start the flow just turning the knob does not on itself enables the gas to flow. At the same time the action of pushing in the knob starts sparks which light the gas flowing out.
For a toddler (or you) to blew up the oven they need to turn the knob, push it in, and the ignitors need to fail to ignite, and you or your toddler need to keep pushing the knob. Are you saying that the ignitors failed? or that the thermistor failed to shut off the glass flow?
