WASHINGTON, DC - A woman found suffering from severe burn wounds on the George Washington University campus Monday morning is reportedly in critical condition.
The woman was discovered by University Police officers just after 6am near the intersection of 22nd and H streets NW.

She was blocks away from where uniformed Secret Service officers found her about an hour earlier near the White House. They did not take her to the hospital.

Secret Service spokesman Darren Blackford says after officers encountered the injured woman, they immediately called for DC Fire and EMS. Blackford says the woman was uncooperative and refused initial treatment. He says when officers tried to offer assistance again; she left the scene before paramedics arrived.

Michael Stoops, the Executive Director of the National Coalition for the Homeless says the secret service officers should have done more.
He says, "They should have been insistent that the woman be taken to the emergency room like they would any other citizen."
He adds, "A person can say no, but even if a person says no, any police officer knows, even if it is Secret Service, knows you can't let a wounded individual wonder the streets of downtown Washington."

The woman was found about just after 6am near the intersection of 22nd and H streets NW on the George Washington University campus.

University police officers on a routine round found the woman partially clothed and writhing in pain.

University officials say she did not have an address, and it isn't clear how she ended up on campus.

Officers took her to George Washington hospital. She was later transferred to the burn unit at Washington Hospital Center suffering from severe burns to her face, neck and chest.