A Washington state man wanted his private life to remain a secret because he had done some horrible things to his seven-year-old stepdaughter. However, his wife learned about his transgressions and decided to get revenge on the man for molesting the child. She proceeded to set her husband on fire for molesting the little girl, and the man got in his car and drove to a local convenience store seeking help from anyone who had sympathy for him as a molester.

The alleged molester was 52-year-old Vincent Phillips. His wife doused him in gasoline and then set him on fire because he had touched her child inappropriately. The wife, 40-year-old Tatanysha Hedman, wanted to make her husband pay for molesting the young child. She covered him in gasoline and then set him on fire to get back at him for the horrible way he ruined her daughter’s innocence and naivety.

The molester, Phillips, drove to a convenience store after getting set on fire and begged people to help him. They did not know that he was a molester of a seven-year-old child, so, of course, they did the honorable thing and helped the man in his moment of need.

“I’m on fire!” Phillips screamed to the people inside the store. “Help me!”

Someone called the police, and the dispatcher sent an ambulance and officers to the scene. Phillips told the officers, “My wife did it,” before he passed out from the injuries he sustained as a result of the act of revenge.

Police arrested Hedman for setting her husband on fire. However, she told officers that the only reason she did it was that he had sexually assaulted his seven-year-old stepdaughter. Hedman was brutally honest with authorities regarding her husband’s sexual deviancy. She told them that he had abused the little girl, so she decided to douse him in gasoline and set him on fire rather than use a firearm to end his life. Killing him with a shot would have been “too nice” for the sexual predator, Hedman had allegedly said.

Phillips was taken to the intensive care unit of the nearby hospital. However, he has since been charged with first-degree child molestation. Although he was set on fire for abusing a little girl, he was not the only one charged with a crime. Hedman was slapped with assault and arson charges for setting her husband on fire. She remained in jail on a $500,000 bond because of what she had done to the man she vowed to love until his dying day.

While Phillips was completely wrong and horrible to have touched the seven-year-old girl, his wife took things too far when she tried to punish him for it. Instead, she should have called the police and allowed the law to take care of her husband. They would have put him away in jail for a long time, and she would not have had to face criminal charges.