Deaira Summers, who's just 11 years old, was having a good time with her mom at the playground when the older girl unexpectedly doused her with acid. Deaira ended up with second- and third-degree burns on her arms, legs, and back. They rushed her to a children's hospital, where she stayed for four days to get treatment for her injuries.
Authorities are still trying to figure out what specifically led the other girl to commit this violent act and where she managed to get the acid from.
From Huffington Post:
Prosecutors charged the 12-year-old Saturday with assault with intent to do great bodily harm and felonious assault and ordered a $10,000 bond.
Deaira was an “innocent bystander” in a confrontation between her cousin and the 12-year-old, her mother said, a dispute that had started the previous day. Deaira left but dropped her purse, and was struck by the acid when she returned to retrieve it.
“I feel like it was the most evil thing you could do to a kid,” Summers said.
“I hope she get what she deserve, and they all get what they deserve,” Deaira told the news station, which showed pictures of the girl’s legs streaked by burns.
“How does a child even think to bring acid to the park?” added Dominique Summers, who believes an adult was also responsible for the alleged attack. Authorities have not said where the acid might have come from.
“Whoever was involved with her, I would like them all to be arrested for what they did to my daughter,” Summers said.
When asked whether there are plans to charge any adults in the case, Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office spokesperson Maria Miller told HuffPost that “other aspects of the case remain under investigation.”
It's a sad day when a child can't even enjoy time at the playground without fear of being attacked.
But I have to agree with the victim's mother: How does a child so young come up with the idea to bring acid to the park?
This isn't confirmed, but according to the mother, the older child's parent was the one who supposedly supplied them with the acid in order to retaliate against the other kids at the park.
