A young South Jersey mother is in jail, charged with the burning death of her newborn baby Friday night.
Authorities say 22-year-old Hyphernkemberly Dorvilier of Pemberton Township, Burlington County doused her newborn baby with a flammable liquid then set the child on fire.
It happened around 11 p.m. along Simontown Road. Police arrived and quickly extinguished the flames.
“You see a site like that, it just puts life into perspective,” says Dave Joseph, who lives nearby.
Joseph saw the small fire from his window and went to investigate.
“We actually didn’t think it was a baby, we just thought it was a fire, somebody dumping everything down there, but when we found out what it was, it was just a nightmare.”
The infant was airlifted to St. Christopher’s Hospital in Philadelphia and died two hours later. Dorvilier was taken into custody at the scene.
“She was hiding,” Joseph said. “She was trying to defy what it was. I had her on the ground. I was holding her down because she tried to get away.”
She has been charged with one count of Murder and is being held on $500,000 bail.
Details of the baby’s birth are unavailable at this time. An autopsy is expected to be performed in the near future.
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