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North Florida Muslim set wife on fire, faces life in prison

Posted on June 29, 2012 

 by creepingsharia

 

via North Florida arsonist burned wife: Palatka man faces life in prison for torching first wife – South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com.

Khalid Abeljawwad Mohd of Palatka was found guilty Tuesday of various charges related to the attack on his wife, Rema Jamel, in March 27, 2010 after she asked him to help extend her visa. (Putnam County Jail)

A 41-year-old Palatka man who doused his first wife with lighter fluid and set her on fire two years ago faces life in prison when he is sentenced in August.

Khalid Abeljawwad Mohd was found guilty Tuesday of various charges related to the attack on Rema Jamel in March 27, 2010 after she asked him to help extend her visa.

“Mohd told her he would not help her and that he intended to bring his second wife from Jordan, where it is legal to have multiple wives, to live in Palatka,” the State Attorney’s Office said in a statement.

Mohd then told her she could not take her children with her back to Jordan and he threatened to kill her and bury her in the back yard, the statement said.

She suffered second- and third-degree burns over 75 percent of her body. She testified at his two-day trial this week.

A jury deliberated for a little more than an hour Tuesday before finding Mohd guilty of attempted first-degree murder with a weapon, arson and aggravated battery causing serious bodily injury with a weapon.

“The defendant carried out this crime with chilling brutality. Because of the testimony of the victim and her son, Mohd’s vicious and senseless rage will not go unpunished.” State Attorney R.J. Larizza said in a statement.

Circuit Judge Patti A. Christensen is scheduled to sentence Mohd on Aug. 8

When she was taken to Putnam Community Medical Center after being burned, Mohd told officials she had a grilling accident. Later, he said that she set herself on fire.

A police report said she told officials Mohd got so angry with her, she tried to call police. But he removed the phone line from the wall so she couldn’t call. Then she tried to go to a neighbor’s house, and that’s when he sprayed lighter fluid on her.

“She stated that when she went to the front door to leave, Mohd pushed her to the floor in the living room causing her to blackout,” the report said. She “stated she remembers walking up in the hospital with her body burned.”

Her two children were playing on the trampoline when she was attacked. Both told police they heard their parents arguing and they said their mother on fire with “yellow stuff” dripping from her body.

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