A group of young boys in Georgia, ages 12 to 15, are facing charges for allegedly dumping hot water on one of their “friends” in a sleepover prank gone wrong, according to police and the victim’s family.

“You got to be in shock to know your friends are capable of doing this to you,” the victim‘s aunt, Nachelle Austille, told local NBC and ABC affiliate WALB. “Like somebody you trusted. It’s just horrible. He never thought something like this would happen to him.”

Tiffany West, the victim’s mother, told the local station that her son, age 12, was at a sleepover at one of their neighbor’s apartments in Tifton — about 180 miles south of Atlanta — when his friends allegedly set upon him.  It’s unclear when the sleepover occurred as West is choosing to keep certain details private.

She says hearing about what happened to her son, who suffered second-degree burns on most of his face, upset her deeply.

Jurors convicted a young Indiana man for murdering his entire family amid a spat over him leaving home without permission.

Raymond Ronald Lee Childs III, then 17, was charged as an adult. His first trial ended in a mistrial after a witness asked him why he committed the act. This second trial ended with jurors finding him guilty in Marion County of six counts of murder, one count of attempted murder, and one count of carrying a handgun without a license, records show. Sentencing is set for Jan. 7, 2025.

That attempted murder charge is regarding his younger brother, the sole survivor of the Jan. 24, 2021, tragedy. That teenager managed to escape with gunshot wounds to the leg and arm, leading to investigators finding the murder scene on Adams Street. There, they found six slain victims: Kezzie Childs, 42, Raymond Childs, 42, Elijah Childs, 18, Rita Childs, 13, Kiara Hawkins, 19, and Kiara’s unborn son, identified by authorities as “Baby Boy Hawkins.”

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As authorities have said, the shooting happened amid a spat over whether Childs III could stay the night at his girlfriend’s home.