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03-18-2016, 03:12 AM
Sleeping gay couple severely burned after man pours boiling water on them
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When a man tossed boiling hot water on Marquez Tolbert and his boyfriend as they slept, Tolbert started screaming and just couldn't stop.
"The pain doesn't let you sleep. It's like excruciating, 24 hours a day and it doesn't go anywhere. It doesn't dial down or anything. It's just there," Tolbert said, as tears steamed down his face during an interview posted Thursday on Atlanta's WSB-TV (http://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/exclusive-man-pours-boiling-water-on-gay-atlanta-couple-in-bed/164943370). "You wake up in the middle of the night, you just cry because you want to sleep and you can't."
Tolbert, 21, and his 23-year-old boyfriend, Anthony Gooden, suffered second and third-degree burns because of the February attack, which occurred two days before Valentine's Day. Their assailant targeted them because they were gay. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/17/sleeping-gay-couple-severely-burned/)
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When a man tossed boiling hot water on Marquez Tolbert and his boyfriend as they slept, Tolbert started screaming and just couldn't stop.
"The pain doesn't let you sleep. It's like excruciating, 24 hours a day and it doesn't go anywhere. It doesn't dial down or anything. It's just there," Tolbert said, as tears steamed down his face during an interview posted Thursday on Atlanta's WSB-TV (http://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/exclusive-man-pours-boiling-water-on-gay-atlanta-couple-in-bed/164943370). "You wake up in the middle of the night, you just cry because you want to sleep and you can't."
Tolbert, 21, and his 23-year-old boyfriend, Anthony Gooden, suffered second and third-degree burns because of the February attack, which occurred two days before Valentine's Day. Their assailant targeted them because they were gay. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/17/sleeping-gay-couple-severely-burned/)
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