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Teen Throws Boiling Water In 15-Year-Old Girl's Face For Unfriending Him On Facebook

A teen boy upset with a female classmate for unfriending him on Facebook reportedly threw a pot of boiling water in the girl's face after holding both her and her mother hostage inside their own home.

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In a shocking incident, a youth reportedly threw boiling water on the face of a girl because she had ‘unfriended’ him from her Facebook friend's list

The victim with severe burn injuries has been undergoing treatment at a local government hospital. Meanwhile, the police have formed a special team to arrest the accused, who is absconding.

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In a statement to police, the unnamed victim, 15, said the suspect came to her house in Muzaffarpur, India, allegedly in search of his lost ID card.

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The girl told authorities that her father, a teacher, had been tutoring the suspect , and he was a regular visitor at their house

The police said that the boy used to take tuitions from the girl's father. The boy and the girl became friends and established contact on Facebook as well a year back.

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"I accepted his (Facebook) friend request a year ago because I found him decent then," she said in her statement. "But of late he had become abusive and so I 'unfriended' him last week."

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The suspect arrived at the family's home last Wednesday, and proceeded to lock the girl and her mother in a room

He then boiled a pot of water in the kitchen, and poured its contents on the girl's face, causing her to sustain severe burns on her right cheek and neck.

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With Facebook steadily becoming the exclusive means of communication among teens in India, tragic news stories involving young Indian Facebook users are similarly on the rise

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