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Boy burned by slide
A two-year-old boy in Middle River, Maryland, was severely burned after he went down a slide that had been splashed with industrial-strength drain cleaner by vandals at an elementary school playground. Peyton Duschl was scheduled for surgery yesterday morning and likely will be hospitalized for several weeks, said Carol Duschl, the boy's mother. "I just don't understand what would draw somebody to do something like that," Duschl told WMAR-TV. Someone had broken into the school, stolen several bottles of the drain cleaner and splashed it all over the playground equipment, authorities said.
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