Woman Set On Fire By Husband With Blow Torch

By By Shayna Jacobs , Joseph Stepansky AND Ginger Adams Otis / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Credit: Susan Watts/Daily News

Carlos Diaz is arraigned Thursday on charges he burned his estranged wife with a blowtorch.

January 28, 2013 Updated Jan 28, 2013 at 10:39 AM PDT

(NY Daily News)

A Bronx mom set ablaze with a blowtorch by her estranged husband was so worried he’d go after her kids next she called her baby-sitter before 911 — even as her face and neck still sizzled from the horrific burns.

From her bed in the burn unit of Harlem Hospital, Cathy Zapata, 38, told the Daily News she ran into her psycho ex after she dropped off their 5-year-old son at his school early Wednesday morning.

The husband was at that same corner, a block away from the school, that he’d been staking out for months.

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