Detroit girl, 12, arrested for grisly acid attack on another kid

A 12-year-old girl has been busted for allegedly dousing another child with acid in a Detroit playground last week, state officials said.

The pre-teen, who has not been named publicly, was charged with one count each of assault with intent to do great bodily harm and felonious assault, the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office announced over the weekend.

At a preliminary hearing, the juvenile’s bond was set at $10,000, the office said.

The accused was also scheduled to appear before a judge on Wednesday.

“This is an extremely troubling set of allegations. Instant horrible decision making can have lifelong effects on others. There is no excuse for this,” prosecutor Kym Worthy added in the official statement.

The charges against the 12-year-old stem from the seemingly random attack on Deaira Summers, 11, on the playground at Vernor Elementary School on July 9.

Summers was playing with her siblings and cousin when her cousin the 12-year-old started fighting, according to CBS News.

The alleged perpetrator’s mother handed her a bottle of acid that she threw on Summers, who returned to the park to pick up her purse.

“Two seconds later, it started, like, burning and went through my shirt, my shorts,” Summers told WSAZ. 

“I was screaming and I was crying.”

She was hospitalized for three days, and still has bandages on the severe burns to her back, legs, and arms.

Summers’ mother, Dominique, said that she wants charges leveled against the 12-year-old’s mother.

“I know that a 12-year-old wouldn’t come up with something like that on their own. To even think of something so evil to do,” she told CBS Detroit this week.

In an interview with 7 Action News over the weekend, the concerned mother described how her daughter’s injuries have changed their family’s life.

“It takes maybe two hours what used to be 20 minutes getting dressed,” she said.

“It takes about 2 hours to give her her medicine. I have to give her medication 30 minutes before she takes a bath.”

As of Wednesday morning, a GoFundMe started to cover Summers’ medical costs had almost doubled its initial $10,000 goal.