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The Queens mother accused of setting her daughter on fire in an apparent voodoo ritual pleaded guilty for the heinous crime and in exchange will spend the next 17 years in prison.

Marie Lauradin, 29, admitted to Queens Supreme Court Justice Richard Buchter — through an interpreter — that she poured accelerant on six-year-old Frantzcia Saintil and placed her in the middle of a circle of fire inside their Queens Village home on February 4, 2009 in a voodoo ritual.

Lauradin plead guilty to first-degree assault and agreed to be sentenced to 17 years in prison on June 6.

Lauradin’s mother, Sylvenie Thessier, 70, stood by during the incident while 25 percent of her granddaughter’s body was covered with second and third-degree burns — including her face. Thessier plead guilty to reckless assault earlier this year and was sentenced in April to one to three years in prison for her irresponsible role in the unthinkable abuse.

The mother and daughter duo both face deportation to Haiti upon completion of their sentences.

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