“Marked for life.” The phrase echoes the pain of the mother of an 11-year-old girl, a victim of violence: The minor was attacked with acid during an event that took place on the playground next to a school in Detroit, Michigan.

The victim’s name is Deaira Summers and her family said the situation arose on July 9, 2023.

As told to WDIV and Telemundo News reports, Deaira and her cousins ​​played at Vernor Elementary School. Another minor under the age of 12 appeared at the scene and is the one accused of perpetrating the attack. They claim that the attacker had an argument with a cousin of the victim.

After the argument: “Deaira Summers and her brothers left the playground, but she returned to get her bag, whereupon she was attacked.”

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I screamed and cried: said the girl who was the victim of the acid attack

Deaira was interviewed by the American media and told about the shocking moment.

He remembered screaming and crying when they poured an unknown liquid on him.

My cousin and a girl had started fighting and once it stopped she said I have something for all of you

Deaira to Detroit Fox affiliate WJBK.

“At first I didn’t feel it, but about two seconds later it started to burn me and it went right through my shirt and shorts.”

Noticias Telemundo also reported that the girl was treated in the caumatology department of the Children’s Hospital because she had second and third degree burns on her back, arms and legs.

“It’s a Traumatic Event”

For the victim’s mother, Dominique Summers, what happened will “mark her for life”.

How come a girl goes to a park with acid, Dominique wonders in an interview published on Univisión.

However, according to what was revealed on the Law and Crime site, Deaira’s mother announced that the corrosive liquid came from the attacker’s mother.

“He gave her the chemical to throw at the kids and told the kids that’s what they get when they mess with their daughter,” Dominique Summers told a station.

Wayne’s prosecution, the medium says, charged the 12-year-old girl with attempted grievous bodily harm and assault.

“It was a traumatic event that she will remember for the rest of her life,” says the parent.

I feel like she did the meanest thing you can do to a girl.

Dominique Summers, Deaira’s mother

Deaira needs care and help getting dressed. “I have to give her medicine half an hour before I bathe her,” the mother describes.

The girl’s grandfather, Billy Summers, wonders how his granddaughter will feel safe going back to the schoolyard.

Dominique, with the pain only a mother feels, told Univisión, “Whoever is involved, I want them arrested for what they did to my daughter.”