Atirou água a ferver a um casal gay que estava a dormir (Noticia) - Throw boiling water to a gay couple who was sleeping (News)

Martin Blackwell queimou o enteado e o namorado enquanto eles dormiam porque não queria "homossexualidades" em casa

Um homem foi condenado esta quarta-feira, na Georgia, Estados Unidos, por ter atirado água a ferver a um casal gay que estava a dormir. Martin Blackwell enfrenta uma pena de até 80 anos de prisão, após o tribunal ter descrito o ato como perverso e premeditado.

Tudo aconteceu a 12 de fevereiro. O casal de namorados Anthony Gooden e Marquez Tolbert estava a dormir quando Martin entrou no quarto e lhes atirou com água a ferver. Os dois acordaram aos gritos.

"Eu acordei com a dor mais inimaginável que senti em toda a minha vida", testemunhou Marquez, em tribunal, a chorar. "Eu não percebia o que estava a acontecer", continuou, segundo o New York Daily News.

Martin Blackwell terá ainda dito após ter atirado a água "saiam da minha casa com a vossa homossexualidade".

Anthony e Marquez ficaram gravemente feridos e foram submetidos a várias cirurgias. Marquez ficou 10 dias internado no hospital e Anthony cerca de um mês, para além de ter passado duas semanas em coma induzido.

Os dois trabalhavam juntos e namoravam há um mês, na altura do ataque. Eles tinham ido dormir a casa de Anthony após terem feito o turno da noite.

Martin era namorado da mãe de Anthony há dois anos e de vez em quando dormia na casa dela, pois era camionista e passava pouco tempo na cidade. Pouco tempos antes do ataque, Anthony tinha revelado à família que era gay, notícia que não foi bem recebida por Martin.

Naquele dia, Martin deu dinheiro às outras filhas da namorada para irem comprar comida. Quando as adolescentes saíram de casa, o padrasto meteu uma panela com água no fogão e esperou que fervesse, segundo o procurador.

Wayne Hood, o polícia que foi chamado ao apartamento após o incidente, afirmou em tribunal que Martin lhe dissera que na altura o enteado e o namorado estavam a fazer sexo. Martin disse ainda ao polícia que apenas "lhes atirou um bocado de água quente".

Anthony disse em tribunal que o casal nunca tinha feito sexo.

O estado da Georgia não tem legislação específica para crimes de ódio, mas o FBI abriu uma investigação que trata o caso como tal, segundo a imprensa americana. Martin Blackwell foi acusado de agressão e ofensas corporais graves.

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Martin Blackwell burned her stepson and her boyfriend while they slept because they wanted "homosexualities" at home

A man was sentenced Wednesday in Georgia, United States, for throwing boiling water to a gay couple who was asleep. Martin Blackwell faces a sentence of up to 80 years in prison after the court has described the act as perverse and premeditated.

It happened on 12 February. The unmarried couple Anthony Gooden and Marquez Tolbert was asleep when Martin entered the room and shot them with boiling water. The two agreed screaming.

"I woke up with the most unimaginable pain I felt in my entire life," Marquez testified in court crying. "I did not realize what was happening," he continued, according to the New York Daily News.

Martin Blackwell will have even said after hurling the water "get out of my house with your homosexuality."

Anthony and Marquez were seriously injured and underwent several surgeries. Marquez was 10 days in the hospital and Anthony about a month, in addition to having spent two weeks in a medically induced coma.

The two worked together and were dating for a month at the time of the attack. They had gone to bed the Anthony home after making the night shift.

Martin was Anthony's mother's boyfriend for two years and occasionally slept at her house, she was trucker and spent little time in the city. Little time before the attack, Anthony had revealed to his family that he was gay, that news was not well received by Martin.

On that day, Martin gave money to other girlfriend's daughters to go buy food. When teenagers leave home, his stepfather put a pan of water on the stove and waited to boil, according to the prosecutor.

Wayne Hood, the police was called to the apartment after the incident, he said in court that Martin had told him that at the time her stepson and her boyfriend were having sex. Martin also told the police that only "threw them a bit of hot water."

Anthony said in court that the couple had never had sex.

The state of Georgia has no specific legislation for hate crimes, but the FBI has opened an investigation that is the case as such, according to the American press. Martin Blackwell was charged with assault and grievous bodily harm.