A California mother has been accused of setting her seven-year-old daughter on fire this weekend.
Porche Wright, 27, was scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday afternoon on attempted murder charges.
According to a news release from the Sacramento Police Department, Porche was arrested on Saturday after the suspect's friend and neighbors reported seeing Wright pour gasoline on her daughter then light her with a match.
When paramedics arrived at the Sacramento home, the seven-year-old girl was covered in serious burns.
The girl is expected to survive but she is suffering from severe wounds.
Wrights' neighbors who described their horror at seeing the child burn.
'She put gas on her and put a match on her,' Mike Davis said.
Neighbor Frank Taylor says he saw the victim suffering.
'She was burned so bad the skin was peeling off her face and everything … it was really, really severe,' Taylor said.
'People are saying that she wasn’t really a good mom, that she was really always on her verbally abusing them, ‘Taylor added.
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