{"id":4191,"date":"2023-11-02T16:13:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T15:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=4191"},"modified":"2023-11-02T16:13:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T15:13:55","slug":"six-year-old-boy-will-never-be-the-same-after-his-friends-mean-prank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=4191","title":{"rendered":"Six-Year-Old Boy Will Never Be The Same After His \u201cFriend\u2019s\u201d Mean Prank"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Connecticut prankster has ruined the life of a six-year-old boy after setting him on fire. The other child covered a tennis ball with gasoline, lit it on fire, and then threw the ball at the six-year-old victim\u2019s face, setting him on flames. Although the young victim, Dominick Krankall, thankfully survives the gruesome attack, he is not out of the woods as he battles the severe second- and third-degree burns that cover his face and legs.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy six-year-old brother could\u2019ve died. The kid covered a ball in gasoline, lit it on fire and threw it at him. All in a matter of seconds,\u201d wrote the victim\u2019s sister, Kayla Deegan, on a GoFundMe page. \u201cHe\u2019s going to be scarred for life mentally and physically.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Young Dominick was playing with other children in the backyard of his family\u2019s home on Louisiana Avenue in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He was with other children, who are reportedly tenants in the home, when one of the children decided to play with fire.<\/p>\n

Deegan said that an eight-year-old child, a neighbor, entered the property and broke into the shed where he was able to get his hands on gasoline, lighters, and the tennis ball that he would later throw at Dominick\u2019s face. The sister said that after the bully threw the ball at Dominick, he \u201cran away and watched him burn.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to John Cappiello, a representative of the hospital where Dominick is receiving care, the boy \u201cremains in fair condition.\u201d As luck would have it, the boy lived near the Connecticut Burn Center at Bridgeport Hospital, which is one of only sixty-two similar facilities across the entire United States of America.<\/p>\n

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Deegan was furious that her brother was attacked.<\/p>\n

\u201c(The assailant) has a history of bullying, and he has gotten away with too much. The mother thinks he is innocent. The family thinks it\u2019s a joke,\u201d Deegan wrote. \u201cEven though Dominick can\u2019t talk because he\u2019s in a lot of pain and all swollen, he said to my mom, \u2018Please don\u2019t take me back there.\u2019 This is extremely unfair and shouldn\u2019t ever happen to ANY CHILD!!! We need justice for our little Dominick.\u201d<\/p>\n

Right now, authorities have yet to press charges against the eight-year-old prankster who set the six-year-old boy on fire by throwing a fireball at his face.<\/p>\n

Deegan spoke to NBC New York about the attack and how she wants authorities to do something to get justice for her brother.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s heartbreaking, it\u2019s sickening to know the family. There\u2019s nothing being done about this,\u201d Deegan told the news station. \u201cThis needs to be seen everywhere so everyone knows Dom\u2019s story and what he had to go through, and the extent it went to for someone to hopefully do something.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dominick\u2019s family is eager for their little boy to get better. They\u2019re accepting donations from people online. They\u2019ll put the money toward the hospital bills as well as toward finding a new home where they can be safe.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not safe here. Anything helps, even a share. Thank you all for the support. I\u2019m sure Dominick appreciates it,\u201d the family wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Connecticut prankster has ruined the life of a six-year-old boy after setting him on fire. The other child covered a tennis ball with gasoline, lit it on fire, and then threw the ball at the six-year-old victim\u2019s face, setting him on flames. Although the young victim, Dominick Krankall, thankfully survives the gruesome attack, he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4195,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191\/revisions\/4195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}