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The Independent UK
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Johanna Chisholm

Six-year-old boy suffers third-degree burns in bullying attack: ‘Mommy they lit me on fire’

Go Fund Me/Kayla Deegan

It was a sunny, spring day when Dominick Krankall decided to heed the call from the boy who lived below him and join him and some neighbourhood kids to play outdoors last Sunday.

The warm embrace that the six-year-old likely felt when being called upon to join the other children, at least one older, the eight-year-old child who beckoned his neighbour to come out, was short lived, his sister Kayla Deegan told WNBC in New York City.

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