Horrifying! New Jersey mom lit baby on fire

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Hyphernkemberly Dorvilier, 22, of Pemberton Township, N.J., was charged with murder after neighbors claim she set her baby girl on fire in the street.

A New Jersey woman intentionally burned her baby girl alive in the middle of a quiet street, authorities said.

Hyphernkemberly Dorvilier, 22, of Pemberton has been charged with the infant's murder.

Witnesses to the horrific scene claimed a young woman poured a flammable liquid on the defenseless newborn girl about 11 p.m. on Friday, and then set her ablaze in the middle of the road in the Pemberton Township.

"Her demeanor was calm," neighbor David Joseph told the . "She knew what she was doing."

NBC New Jersey police investigate the burning death of a baby girl on Friday night in Pemberton Township.

The woman, later identified as Dorvilier, used a water bottle to douse the flames, and tried to claim she was burning dog waste, the stunned neighbor said.

Police hurried to the small township about 30 miles east of Philadelphia where they found Dorvilier and the smoldering baby.

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New Jersey police investigate the burning death of a baby girl on Friday night in Pemberton Township.

Dorvilier was hospitalized at Deborah Heart and Lung Center, and is now in custody at Burlington County Correction and Work Release Center on $500,000 bond, NBC 10 reported.

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Neighbors claim a young mother lit her baby girl on fire on Friday night in the middle of Simontown Road in Pemberton Township, New Jersey.

Her horribly burned child went by helicopter to St. Christopher's Children's Hospital and died overnight, authorities said.

"We thought, hopefully, it would fight," Joseph told . "It was fighting all night."

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