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Woman Gets Beaten & Set On Fire By Couple She Met Off Facebook
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A husband and wife, plus a family friend and a teenager, allegedly assaulted a woman they met online and set her on fire. In a video posted on the victim's Facebook page, the 20-year-old can be seen with burns to her face and arms.
In that video, the victim says she 'deserved the abuse' allegedly suffered at the hands of Michael and Tamara Rhoades, Steven Mills and a 14-year-old. "This letter is to let everyone know that I hurt myself and that nobody did anything to me. Everything that's happened has been because of me. I brought this on myself," the victim said in the video. However, police say, that confession was a coerced. In the background a man's voice can be heard telling the victim what she should say next. "Now tell 'em about what you did, why we asked you to leave," the male voice says in the video.
Authorities say the 20-year-old victim met Michael and Tamara Rhoades online two years ago. Officials say they lured the victim from her home in Pittsburgh to live in their North Philadelphia row home."
Source: AP