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A Windsor dad is outraged after his nine-year-old daughter stepped on a nail-filled board concealed in a hole at a Riverside park.

On Sunday around noon, Dennis Godfrey and his two daughters, Lauren, nine, and Grace, 11, were kicking a soccer ball around Realtor Park when Lauren ran towards the brush at one end of the park to retrieve the ball.

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Suddenly, Lauren screamed. Godfrey thought his daughter got scratched by a tree branch, he didn’t expect to see a board with eight 2 1/2 inch nails sticking out of her foot. The board was at the bottom of a one-foot-deep hole which had been camouflaged with sticks, leaves and grass.

“At first it was disbelief and I’m thinking how did you just step on the board,” he said. “But then I saw the hole and it changed to anger and the fact that someone intentionally planted this to hurt someone.”

Why would someone do this?

Luckily for Lauren, who was wearing running shoes, just one of the nails slightly punctured her big toe.