A couple in South Boston is demanding changes after their four-year-old was stuck by a needle in a city park.
Shaheim Grant and Caroline Flynn remain hopeful that their son Mason Flynn-Bradford will be OK. Earlier this month, the four-year-old stepped on used hypodermic needle during a family birthday cookout on the greenway along Columbia Road in South Boston.
“Traumatic experience”
“It was a traumatic experience. He didn’t have shoes on. He had socks on. He ran out of the tent and stepped on the needle,” Flynn said.
The family immediately brought him to Boston Medical Center for testing and he is now on several medications…