A weekend visit to a Detroit playground ended with a young girl’s hospitalization for severe injuries after an acid attack.
Local news outlets interviewed the victim, 11-year-old Deaira Summers, who recounted the moments leading up to the attack.
The whole ordeal unfolded on Sunday, July 9, at an elementary school playground after a fight between a 12-year-old girl and Deaira’s cousin started that Deaira was never part of.
At one point, Deaira’s mother witnessed the 12-year-old girl’s mother hand her a bottle filled with liquid, which she threw on Deaira, her cousins, and her siblings.
“Her mother met her in the park and gave her the chemical to throw on the kids, and she told the kids that’s what they get for messing with her daughter,” Dominique Summers told Fox 2 Detroit.
Deaira said she felt the acid burn through her clothes and skin at once and immediately ran home to shower.
“Two seconds later, it started like burning and went through my shirt, my shorts,” Deaira told WDIV. “I was screaming, I was crying.”