Boiling water poured over gay couple asleep - US

Tolbert in hospital severely burnt

Mother's boyfriend poured boiling water

A young gay man in the US has a long recovery ahead of him, after suffering severe burns. Boiling water was poured over him as he lay sleeping with his partner. The mother's boyfriend did it because he was gay.

It's beyond belief that someone would hate so much as to do this, simply over their sexuality. And the christians reckon they're being persecuted? I don't see any gays doing that to anyone.

Tolbert also has a "go fund me" page here. 

A young couple is recovering from severe burns after police say a man threw burning water on them -- because they are gay. 

The victims told Channel 2’s Nicole Carr that they were sound asleep, resting after a long day at work, when they were attacked. 

"The pain doesn't let you sleep. It's just, like, it's excruciating, 24 hours a day, and it doesn't go anywhere,” Marquez Tolbert said. “It doesn't dial down, anything. It's just there." 

Tolbert believes that the second and third-degree burns along his neck, back and arms are scars of hate. 

"Why else would you pour boiling hot water on somebody?" Tolbert asked. 

The 21-year-old and his boyfriend, Anthony Gooden, were severely burned last month when the men say Gooden's mother's boyfriend walked in on them sleeping in Gooden's College Park apartment and poured scalding water all over them. 

"I can barely think straight because the burning, the stinging is everywhere,” Tolbert said. WSB-TV