Jamoneisha Merritt’s mother posted photos to Facebook of her beaming daughter relaxing after she was released from Harlem Hospital.
Posted by New York Daily News on Friday, August 18, 2017
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A sleepover at a friend’s house ended with an 11-year-old girl in a New York burn unit and a 12 -year-old in police custody after police said the 12-year-old poured boiling hot water over the younger girl’s face.
Police said that Jamoneisha Merritt, 11, was sleeping at the 12-year-old's home when the older girl got a cup of boiling water and poured it on Jamoneisha, WNBC reported.
Jamoneisha’s relatives said the two had been arguing.
Her aunt, Yolanda Richardson, told WNBC, "Her and her friend got into an argument and she told her if she goes to sleep they were going to do something to her."
Jamoneisha woke when the burning water hit her face, back, shoulders, neck and chest.
Girl, 11, hospitalized with 2nd-degree burns after classmate pours boiling water on her at sleepover, cops say https://t.co/WDiTmbRrUD pic.twitter.com/dhIPXrMpK5
— NBC New York (@NBCNewYork) August 10, 2017
She suffered second-degree burns and was taken to a burn unit at Harlem Hospital, listed in serious but stable condition.
Her mother told NY1 that her daughter is in a lot of pain, not only physical pain, but emotional pain too.
"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.
Her mother told the television reporters that those involved had been bullying her daughter.
The 12-year-old was arrested and police charged her with assault.
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