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Ontario woman charged with assault with a weapon after neighbour sprayed with water gun

A Simcoe, Ont. woman has been charged with assault with a weapon after spraying her neighbour with a water gun.

“I’ve cried myself to sleep many nights,” Wendy Washik told CTV News.

The 58-year-old educational assistant said she was playing with some kids at a backyard barbecue on Sept. 1.

“Because I love kids and work with kids, I asked [one] if he had any water guns and he said: ‘Yeah.’”

Washik then chased the child from the back of the house to the front of the home, and accidentally sprayed a neighbour.

“I was trying to figure out how the water gun was working. It’s not like I play with water guns at my age,” she explained on Tuesday. “I was going through the gate and it accidentally hit the neighbour that was maybe three …