Girl whose friend scalded her face in a “Hot Water Challenge,” makes amazing recovery .

The 11-year-old Bronx girl — who suffered horrific burns on her face after a friend poured boiling water on her — left the hospital Friday
looking like her old self. “I’m so great,” Jamoneisha “Jamoni” Merritt gushed to the Daily News. .

Jamoni, spent 11 days at Harlem Hospital. “Now I’m dancing and listening to music,” she said. Jamoneisha Merritt is beaming again after her friend severely burned her in a prank gone wrong. .

But her journey back to full health is not yet over. The bubbly middle-schooler will likely miss the start of her 7th grade classes and require home-schooling, her mother said. “Her arm is still raw it hasn’t healed yet ... [and she] can’t go outside in the sun,” said Ebony Merritt. .

“It’s going to take maybe about six months for all her color to come back in.” Jamoni was sleeping over a friend’s house on Aug. 7 when a pal doused her with scalding water in a prank that went gruesomely wrong. The incident resembled the “Hot Water Challenge,” a YouTube-inspired trend in which kids pour boiling water on unsuspecting friends.