Two teens charged in playground acid spill!

United States
April 17, 2007 2:25pm CST
Two teenagers were charged with breaking into a school and pouring acidic drain cleaner on playground equipment that later burned a two year old boy on a slide, Baltimore County police said Tuesday. The two 16 year old boys were charged Monday night with reckless endangerment and second degree burglary and released to their parents, officials said. A school resource officer learned about the first juvenile, which police said led them to the second, who was arrested later. Their names were not released. The industrial strength drain cleaner, which was a high concentrate of sulfuric acid, was removed from a storage facility at Victory Villa Elementary School and was splashed all over the playground equipment, police said. The two year old boy Peyton Potochney, suffered second and thrid degree burns, mostly on his legs, after he went down a slide. His mother, Carol Duschl, has said the little boy will most likely be hospitalized for weeks. What do you think about this? What were those teens thinking? I couldn't bare being the small childs mother, seeing that happen to her child.
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@lightningMD (5931)
• United States
17 Apr 07
That is terrible. I hope those boys are prosecuted. I also think they should be made to go see that little boy and see what they did. I hope the judge sentences them to community service let them clean toilets and work with that stuff every day.