Christina Leach (pictured) offered to give the man a massage at his home in Silver Springs, Pennsylvania, before setting him on fire and stealing his van.
A man who was tied to a bed and set on fire has miraculously survived after jumping from a second storey window.
Christina Leach, 27, was inside the man’s house after offering to give him a massage when she poured a flammable liquid on to his chest and set it alight, police said.
Leaving him to burn, Leach allegedly stole the keys to the man’s work van and drove off, but was later arrested.
Police in Silver Spring Township, Pennsylvania, said the man, who was not named, had invited Leach into his home on Saturday because she offered him a massage, the NY Daily News reported.
Sergeant Leroy Hippensteel said: ‘She tied him to the bed and poured a flammable substance on his upper torso and lit him on fire.’
After he was set alight, the burning man wriggled free and jumped out of his bedroom window before driving to a nearby Turkey Hill dairy ice cream store.
A shop assistant there called the emergency services before the victim was flown to a burn center. His current condition is not known.
Fire crews were also called to his home later put out the blaze at his home.
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