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911 call in Florida attack: 'He set me on fire!'

Posted: 06/13/12 at 6:50 am EDT

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- A South Florida woman repeatedly screams "It hurts!" in a frantic 911 call made after being doused in gasoline and set ablaze.

Police released emergency calls in the case Tuesday, a day after the incident at a 7-Eleven store in Boynton Beach.

The 34-year old woman, who has not been identified, pleads for a dispatcher to hurry and says the man who attacked her is outside the store with a knife. She screams that he set her on fire.

The father of the woman's 4-year-old son, Roosevelt Mondesir, is charged with first-degree attempted murder in the burning. In an initial court appearance Tuesday, the 52-year-old was denied bond.

Mondesir does not yet have an attorney.

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