Toddler Burnt by Possible Etch-Bath on Slide

[ForteOne]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6556823.stm

 

A two-year-old boy is facing surgery after receiving serious burns at a playground slide in the US that had been vandalised with harsh chemicals.

 

Peyton Duschl received second and third-degree burns, mostly to his legs, after using the primary school slide.

 

Vandals had poured industrial-strength drain cleaner over the ride, and opened bottles of the dangerous chemical were found at the scene, police said.

 

A hazardous materials team was called in to clean the site in Maryland state.

 

The boy will have surgery on Sunday and is expected to stay in hospital for several weeks, his mother Carol Duschl said.

 

With a high sulphuric acid content, the cleaner was so strong that the accident and emergency department at the first hospital the boy attended had to be evacuated, said Michael Robinson, from the Baltimore County Fire Department.

 

"I just don't understand what would draw somebody to do something like that," Ms Duschl told US television station WMAR-TV. "What kind of sick joke is that?"

 

There were signs of forced entry to a storage room at Victory Villa Elementary School in Middle River, police spokeswoman Sgt Vickie Warehime said.

 

She said that whoever poured the chemical was also likely to have been burnt.

 

Don't know for sure if it was etch, but a good reason not to use it, none the less.

[inkjunkie]

thats pretty fucked up

[Bruce_1nR]

Morons...

[2006-1984]

Damn, little fuckers.

[Ace Frehley]

the person or persons who did this should be executed. or burned themselves.

[Sick_Boy]

n y the fuk r they taggin school slides if it was etch

[carlo]

it was proabably some people trying to be dicks cause why would you etch a slide?

[Abracadabra]

etch is not used for cleaning drains