ESSEX, MD. — Two teenagers were charged with breaking into a school and pouring an acidic drain cleaner on playground equipment that later burned a 2-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 has a high concentration of sulfuric acid, was removed from a storage facility at Victory Villa Elementary School and splashed over the school's playground equipment, police said.

The 2-year-old, Peyton Potochney, suffered second- and third-degree burns, mostly on his legs, after he went down a slide. His mother, Carol Duschl, has said the little boy likely will be hospitalized for several weeks.



Of course, being minors, they won't be charged as adults. Our local news reported that these punks would serve a maximum of 90 days in juvy hall. Nice slap on the wrist!! Hooray for our justice system!!! :angryfire :livid: :mumble: :mad:

Sick. They should have sulfuric acid poured down their throats.

Sick. They should have sulfuric acid poured down their throats.
Here, here. Released to their parents? Great...sounds like they're doing a bang up discipline job as it is!

*insert smilie of one smilie beating the hell out of another smilie*

Sick. They should have sulfuric acid poured down their throats.
No, we wouldn't want to hurt the poor young people that way...that's cruel and unusual punishment. We don't want to hurt the darlings' self esteem! puke: GIVE ME A :censored: BREAK!!! :mad: :angryfire :2mad :sarah: :mumble:

That is so ****ed up!!! At 16 years old, you know right from wrong just as much as you do at 25 years old. These idiots should be locked up for life!!

Since they are not going to jail like they should :mad: Maybe it would be a good idea to have them do 6 months or so of community sevice at a burn unit at a hospital. If they had to see first hand the pain and suffering that they put that little boy through maybe they would be better for it.

And the world just sinks lower and lower. :(

the world would be a better place if 90% of all teenagers were eliminated from it. damn, i would have kicked the crap out of those punks if i were the child's mother.

Maybe it would be a good idea to have them do 6 months or so of community sevice at a burn unit at a hospital.

Well said, I think that would be a great idea. :thumbsup: