2 juveniles charged in reference to pouring acid on slides at Longmeadow playground

Two juveniles are being criminally charged in reference to a June incident during which 4 kids have been burned by pool acid that was poured on slides at a Longmeadow playground.

The 2 younger individuals, whose names are being withheld due to their ages, have every been indicted by a Hampden County Grand Jury on 4 counts of assault and battery on a toddler with harm, 4 counts of assault and battery with a harmful weapon, and vandalism, based on the Hampden County District Legal professional’s workplace. 

On the morning of June 11, Longmeadow police and firefighters have been knowledgeable that kids at Bliss Park Playground suffered burn-like accidents. On the identical time, police and firefighters have been notified {that a} suspicious substance had been discovered on three slides on the playground. They quickly decided that the substance was muriatic acid — a pool chemical used to deliver down the pH of swimming pools.

Hampden County District Legal professional Anthony Gulluni in an announcement known as the incident “surprising and horrible.”

“Our collective effort to cost these we imagine are accountable ought to clarify that defending this neighborhood’s kids is amongst our highest priorities,” he mentioned. “Whether or not the risk and hurt brought on have been supposed as pranks or malicious acts, it won’t be tolerated.”