The family of a 7-year-old girl in Michigan whose neck was allegedly sliced open at a playground by a 73-year-old man wielding a pocketknife has filed a $50 million lawsuit against the senior, accusing him of "daydreaming about slashing a child's throat in front of the child's parents and peers."

"He is a monster that has taken more from [the victim] than could ever be given back to her," attorney Nabih Ayad alleges in the family's 10-page complaint , filed in Wayne County Circuit Court on Wednesday, a little over a year after Gary Lansky allegedly attacked Saida Mashrah at Lloyd H. Ryan Playground in Dearborn.

"Lansky has now been adjudicated competent to stand criminal trial, having been carefully evaluated by mental health professionals," the complaint explains. "In other words, he is

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