Police: Mom arrested after son dumped boiling water on 11-year-old friend during sleepover

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Kentucky authorities say they’re filing charges against the mother of a child accused of pouring boiling water on an 11-year-old boy as a prank.

WYMT-TV reports Billy Oliver says a friend poured scalding water over him Tuesday while he was sleeping as part of the viral “Hot Water Challenge.” Photos show Oliver at a hospital’s burn unit with second- and third-degree burns.

"It was a ten. On a zero to ten scale of how bad it hurt, it was a ten," said Billy Oliver.

Patricia Oliver, Billy's mother, is asking parents to educate their children on what can happen if they participate in the "Hot Water Challenge."

"Talk to your children people please," she wrote on Facebook. " went to sleep and woke with his friend throwing boiling water on him, laughing while my child fit to get his clothes off...While my child slept, he boiled water and poured on my sleeping baby."

She is making it her mission to spread awareness of this viral "challenge."

"Education is the only thing we can do right now. The parents need to speak; you need to talk with your child. My child had stayed many a night with this boy, and I never would have put him in danger, but it's a challenge you know," said Patricia Oliver. "It's a challenge, guys, these challenges are deadly, they're dangerous. It's not what you want to wake up to."

The friend’s mother, 42-year-old Angela Guth of Manchester, is accused of not seeking medical help for Oliver. She has been arrested.

Clay County Attorney Joe White says Guth is facing criminal abuse and endangerment charges. Clay County Sherriff’s spokesman Clifton Jones confirmed to the Lexington Herald-Leader the office is filing charges.

The “Hot Water Challenge” involves people drinking or pouring pour boiling water on themselves or someone else.

Attorney Joe White said children do not understand the consequences of these "pranks."

"Think about children, they don't always perceive the risks that might be involved in some of the activities that are on there. And I'm sure that many of the activities that they see on the internet don't show the dangers that go along with those activities," he said.