An 11-year-old girl in Detroit is "lucky to be alive" after being doused with acid at a local park.
According to Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy, a 12-year-old girl is facing charges of felony assault and intent to do great bodily harm after allegedly throwing acid on Deaira Summers, 11, per People.
Summers was playing with her younger siblings and cousins at a local school park “when an altercation between an older, unknown teenager and one of Deaira's cousins occurred," her grandmother, Debra Golston, wrote on a GoFundMe page.
Summers and her family left the park in a hurry, according to Golston. The eleven-year-old realized she forgot her purse and went back to retrieve it.
“She returned for her purse and was then doused with acid by the older teenager,” the grandmother said.
“Two seconds later, it started like burning and went through my shirt, my shorts,” Summers recalled to WDIV. "I was screaming and I was crying."
According to the family, Summers suffered second and third-degree burns on her back, legs, and arms. She spent four days being treated in the burn unit at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan.
“She is lucky to be alive but will need ongoing care to fully heal from all the wounds she incurred,” Golston said.
Golston and Summers' mother believe the "unknown teenager’s mother brought acid to the park for her child to retaliate."
“You don’t know what you did," Summers' mom, Dominique Summers, said. "I feel like it was the most evil thing you could do to a kid and especially the fact that she was an innocent bystander."
The 12-year-old suspect is due in court on Tuesday (July 18). Police are still determining whether an adult will also face charges.
“This is an extremely troubling set of allegations. Instant horrible decision-making can have lifelong effects on others," Worthy said in a statement. "There is no excuse for this."
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