PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A little girl burns her hands while making homemade slime.
Kathleen Quinn was taking part in a popular do-it-yourself project at her Massachusetts home.
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She said her skin felt “really hot and tingly.”
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“She was crying in pain, ‘My hands hurt, my hands hurt,’” said Siobhan Quinn, Kathleen’s mother. “We looked at them and they were covered in blisters.”
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