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   An 11-year-old girl was severely burned when her friends poured   
   scalding hot water on her as part of a cruel social media stunt   
   in The Bronx, police said.   
      
   The girl, identified by New York 1 as Jamoneisha Merritt,   
   suffered burns to to her face chest, back and shoulders early   
   Monday morning.   
      
   Police have arrested and charged the 12-year-old girl who   
   allegedly dumped the water on her.   
      
   “It don’t make sense,” Merritt’s cousin Starshanae Nixon told   
   The Post. “You don’t do that to a person. They was best friends.”   
      
   The heinous act was apparently part of a moronic stunt known as   
   the “hot water challenge,” in which an unsuspecting person has   
   boiling hot water dumped on them. In other variations, people   
   willingly try to consume boiling water, police sources said.   
      
   Her uncle said outside the hospital that the girl was doing well   
   but was not aware of the damage done to her.   
      
   “I think the only reason why she in good spirits is because she   
   don’t actually see the damage done to her,” Eugene Dalmida, 52,   
   told The Post.   
      
   “They ain’t letting her see her face. I can’t bear to look at   
   her… It gets me too upset.”   
      
   Merritt had been invited to the sleepover party Sunday night at   
   an apartment near the corner of Findlay Ave. and E. 166th St. in   
   Concourse Village, police said.   
      
   As she was sleeping, the girl poured the water on Merritt, who   
   was forced awake by the searing pain caused by the hot water.   
      
   Merritt is currently receiving treatment at Harlem Hospital for   
   her injuries.   
      
   The 12-year-old who dumped the water has been charged with   
   felony assault, police said.   
      
   An adult was present at the home when the incident happened.   
      
   Merritt’s mom, Ebony, told NY1 that her daughter is in   
   excruciating pain and said doctors are not allowing the child to   
   even look at her burns.   
      
   She added that her daughter had previously been bullied by the   
   girl who attacked her before inviting Jamoneisha to the party   
   Sunday night.   
      
   “She’s very sad. She’s emotionally messed up. She don’t   
   understand why they did that to her. She thought they was her   
   friends,” Ebony Merritt told NY1.   
      
   “I was told that they didn’t like her. And they just been   
   bullying her. They’ve been on Snapchat. It’s been going on   
   several times. The girl admitted it. ‘I don’t like her. I wanted   
   to do it.'”   
      
   Late last month, an 8-year-old Florida girl was killed when she   
   drank boiling water through a straw after being dared by her   
   cousin to do so.   
      
   Ki’ari Pope and her cousin had apparently watched several videos   
   on YouTube of people performing the so-called “hot water   
   challenge” before the child severely burned her throat and died,   
   CBS News reported.   
      
   http://nypost.com/2017/08/09/11-year-old-girl-severely-burned-in-   
   sick-hot-water-challenge-prank/   
       
      
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