6 Year Old Connecticut Child Suffers Horrific Burns All Over His Face After Being Bullied With A Gasoline Filled Tennis Ball

A 6-year-old boy in Connecticut has been hospitalized with second and third-degree burns after his family said a bully covered a tennis ball with gasoline, lit it on fire, and threw it at his face.

The incident unfolded Sunday afternoon when Dominick Krankall was playing in the backyard of his family’s Bridgeport home on Louisiana Avenue with other children who live near them.

Preliminary reports indicate that up to four unattended children were seen playing with gasoline and lighting objects on fire the day of the incident, the Bridgeport Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security said in a statement.

Dominick’s sister told NBC New York her brother was playing in the backyard when "the bully called his name and lured him over around the corner."

"In a matter of seconds he came back around the corner screaming, saying, 'Mommy, they lit me on fire,'" the sister, Kayla Deegan, said, according to the news station.