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Philadelphia police are investigating after a girl was discovered on hearth in a park within the metropolis’s Kensington part final week.
Police mentioned 36-year-old Alyssa Morales suffered extreme burns and is presently in essential situation in a medically induced coma at Temple College Hospital.
The incident occurred round 12:30 am Friday on the 1800 block of East Tioga Avenue.
Motion Information spoke with Morales’ mom, Lee Ann Morales, Wednesday. She mentioned her daughter will likely be within the hospital for no less than three months.
“I might like to simply hug you, I might like to the touch you and I can not,” Lee Ann Morales mentioned to her daughter.
Alyssa, also referred to as Bre, has burns to over 60 per cent of her physique, in response to police; they’re reviewing video circulating on-line that exhibits her garments on hearth.
A witness instructed police they noticed Morales with a person and one other lady in an argument earlier than the blaze on Friday.
“She sees the feminine that is with them spray some type of liquid in direction of the male and the feminine, and that liquid then is lit on hearth,” mentioned Chief Inspector Frank Vanore with the Philadelphia Police Division.
Vanore mentioned the person on hearth ran from the scene. When the fireplace division got here out to place out the fireplace, they found Alyssa with extreme burns.
“I really feel damaged. It is identical to I do not know the place to go, I do not know learn how to rise up,” Lee Ann Morales mentioned.
“She’ll by no means have the face she was born with. By no means.”
Her mom mentioned Alyssa has been battling a heroin habit for about 12 years. She’s stored up together with her daughter on the YouTube channel AML FILMS, watching movies about her life in Kensington.
“Yesterday was the day that we have been supposed to satisfy, and it will have been the primary time that I noticed her bodily in about 4 years,” Lee Ann Morales mentioned.
Police mentioned they’re hoping to get some leads from individuals within the space.
“At night time, round midnight, there are people which might be concerned within the drug commerce, promoting medicine, utilizing medicine. There’s plenty of prostitution within the space so we’re speaking to among the people that frequent the world,” mentioned Philadelphia Chief Inspector Scott Small.
Police are working to determine if Alyssa was deliberately set on hearth.
Police mentioned in the event that they discover she was deliberately set on hearth then these accountable might be charged with arson, aggravated assault and reckless endangerment amongst different severe crimes
No arrests have been made.
Anybody with info on this case is requested to name police at 215-686-TIPS.
