A gay couple in Georgia suffered horrendous burns after a violent homophobe allegedly threw boiling water on them in bed.
Tolbert said he was in the hospital for 10 days and had to have skin taken from his thighs to his back. |
Marquez Tolbert, was sleeping over the apartment of Anthony Gooden, both 21, when Martin Blackwell — the boyfriend of Gooden's mother — scalded them awake two days before Valentine’s Day.
“Get out of my house with all that gay,” Blackwell allegedly said.
Tolbert told WSB-TV
that he is still in pain from second- and third-degree burns that
required skin to be moved from his thigh to his back over 10 days in the
hospital.
Gooden just got out of the hospital last week, and a GoFundMe page set up to pay for medical expenses said that at one point had been induced into a coma.
The page says that they were forced out of the apartment by Blackwell, and went door to door before eventually finding someone who would help them.
The couple says that there was no fight before the attack and that they “had no idea of the hatred he held in his heart.”
Fulton County jail records show that Blackwell remains in jail and faces two charges of aggravated battery.
Public records show that he previously served time for an aggravated assault in the early 1990s.
Blackwell reportedly said of his victims, "They'll be alright, it was just a little hot water on them."
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