Woman Allegedly Sets Baby On Fire In Pemberton, New Jersey

PEMBERTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. (CBS) -- Police say a newborn child was found burning in the middle of a road in Pemberton Township, New Jersey.

It happened late Friday night along the unit block of Simontown Road.

Sources say neighbors witnessed a woman, in her 20's, douse a newborn child in an unknown flammable substance and then set the infant on fire.

Responding officers doused the flames and the child was flown to St. Christopher's Hospital For Children with second and third degree burns on the entirety of the baby's body.

The child's condition was not immediately known.

Police have not said if the woman was the child's mother.

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