A grand jury indicted a man and woman from West Palm Beach, Florida with attempted murder for trying to set a toddler on fire in New York.
The Seneca County Sheriff’s Office said 28-year-old Jamie Avery and 25-year-old Lisbeth Collado face charges of attempted aggravated murder, second-degree attempted murder, second-degree arson, second-degree attempted arson, and first-degree attempted assault.
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The charges stem from an incident on May 3 at the Love’s Travel Plaza near Waterloo.
Deputies responded to a report of several fires at the plaza. They said Avery and Collado tried to light their one-year-old child on fire. Deputies found the child covered in a flammable liquid. They found a second child, a four year old, with head injuries, abandoned in a tractor-trailer.
Both children are out of the hospital and expected to make a full recovery.
The sheriff’s office said the suspects share an address on Old Military Trail Road at North Military Trail Road, just north of Okeechobee Boulevard.
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