This is messed up: A 6-year-old was gashed when sliding down a playground slide in Dutchess County—because a razor blade was placed there! Police arrested an 11-year-old boy for putting the razor there (investigators found the razor "had been inserted into the slide through a hole created from underneath the slide, so that just the edge of the blade stuck up into the slide and would cut anyone sliding down") and apparently the boy had vandalized the Pleasant Valley playground before. The victim, Sean Yambo, required 30 stitches to close up the laceration (it's pretty gory-looking). His father told WCBS 2, "It was horrifying to say the least. Every night we're changing the gauze and what not. The pain, the agony, the screaming," and added, "I feel bad for the other kid who was involved who did it. He's 11, so something is wrong with him, too."
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