Teen Burns Girl's Face With Boiling Water Over Her Unfriending Him On Facebook

A spurned teen took revenge on a girl by burning her face with boiling water after she unfriended him on Facebook, according to police in India.
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The from Bihar state reportedly came to the 15-year-old victim's house on Wednesday and said he had left his I.D. in the home. After this he allegedly shoved the girl's mother aside and poured water on the victim's face.

The teenager girl was rushed to the hospital where she was treated for burns to 20 percent of her face including her right cheek and right side of her neck.

Police are currently looking for him after he fled, following the incident. He is an undergraduate student at a Muzaffarpur college.

Speaking later with journalists the victim said,

"My father is a teacher and he (the accused) used to come for tuitions to our home. I accepted his (Facebook) friend request a year ago because I found him decent then. But of late he had become abusive and so I unfriended him last week."

As social networks are becoming the exclusive means of communication among teens in India, tragic news stories involving young Indian Facebook users are similarly on the rise, some reports indicate.

In October, a 17-year-old Indian girl was said to have committed suicide after her parents banned her from Facebook, according to the Indo-Asian News Service.
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