Mum kills 4 week old daughter in Microwave

Jury convicts Ohio mom in baby's microwave death

• May 14, 2011
  Jurors in an Ohio woman's third trial found her guilty on Friday of killing her baby daughter by cooking her in a microwave oven. China Arnold was convicted of aggravated murder in the death of 28-day-old Paris Talley in August 2005. Arnold could receive the death penalty. The sentencing phase will begin on Monday.
  
  Arnold's first trial ended in a mistrial. She was found guilty in the second trial, but that conviction was reversed last fall. An appeals court found there was misconduct by prosecutors and that the trial court made an error by not allowing a material witness to testify in Arnold's defense.
  
  Prosecutors have said Arnold, 31, intentionally put the baby in the microwave after a fight with her boyfriend. The defense had argued that someone else was responsible. Medical experts testified that the baby died after her temperature reached 107 to 108 degrees Fahrenheit and that she probably was in the microwave for more than two minutes, dying quickly afterward.
  
  "She died because she was overheated," said Dr. Marcella Fierro, retired chief medical examiner for Virginia. ‘She was cooked.’ Messages seeking comment from the prosecutor and defense attorney were left at their offices, but a gag order in the case prevents anyone connected to it from commenting outside court. Assistant Prosecutor Dan Brandt told jurors in court that Arnold's actions were ‘even more purposeful’ than a slaying with a gun or knife, the Dayton Daily News reported.
  
  "Baby Paris is without life, but she's not without a voice," Brandt told jurors in closing arguments. "Please listen to her." Brandt said that Arnold had to carry the baby over, place her in the microwave, shut the door and press buttons. Then she waited while her child cooked to death, Brandt said. Defense attorney Jon Paul Rion argued that the evidence pointed as much to Terrell Talley, the baby's father, as it did Arnold.
  
  "This doesn't make sense to you," Rion told jurors. "It doesn't. I've been watching your faces."
  The prosecutor cut and fit evidence to show "this loving mother somehow was so evil that she killed her baby in this way," he said. Rion said Talley's testimony that Arnold said ‘I killed my baby’ left out important context: She only meant that she failed as a mother by allowing the crime to happen and not that she killed her child.
  
  The defense attorney also said that Talley's sneakers were stained with a bodily substance that should have been tested. Arnold also was very intoxicated, Rion said.
  "No mother is going to do this, in this way," Rion said. "China Arnold is innocent of these charges."
  Brandt said that Arnold admitted to police that the baby woke her up and that she was alone, beside her other sleeping children. There also were no signs of a break-in, he said.
  "She eliminated everyone else," Brandt said.
  
  Talley testified Arnold was drunk, but not so drunk that she would not know what happened. He said she told him the baby would still be alive if he hadn't been unfaithful to her.
  
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Mother Murders 6 week old daughter in microwave oven

 

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – A mother is accused of an unthinkable crime after police said she murdered her baby in a microwave.

It is a brutal crime so rare, there are only three other documented cases in United States history. Sacramento Police said it was the first time they’d ever seen another case like this.

Ka Yang, 29, was arrested for killing her baby in a gruesome fashion, essentially cooking her 6-week-old daughter, Mirabele Thao-Lo, in the kitchen microwave on March 17. Yang had told CBS13 in an exclusive interview in May that the death was an accident.

“I never thought that with my seizure I would lose my little girl,” she said.

She told CBS13 that se dropped the baby on a space heater during her own medical emergency.

Police said she is lying.

“Even when people hear this story that don’t really believe it,” said Sacramento Police Sgt. Norm Leong.

The arrest warrant shows investigators were suspicious because there was no damage to the space heater, the baby’s clothes were not burned, her hair did not appear to be burned or singed, although there were serious burns to her face. Police also found a pacifier for Mirabele inside the microwave.

After a three-month investigation that included consulting with several medical professionals, forensic specialists, and government agencies, it was determined Mirabele died as a result of being burned in a microwave oven.

“The injuries aren’t seen that often. In fact, we couldn’t find three other cases in the nation that had injuries caused by a microwave,” said Leong.

The arrest warrant also showed Yang’s polygraph test found that she was deceptive. She told investigators she might have a split personality.

Police said they don’t know what led up to the killing or what Yang’s motive was.

Yang’s other three children have been ordered into the custody of her grandparents.
Yang is now facing multiple murder charges.

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Teenage mother 'intentionally burned her 15-month-old son's genitals with a hair straightening iron'

 

By RACHEL QUIGLEY
PUBLISHED: 18:19 GMT, 4 May 2012 | UPDATED: 18:19 GMT, 4 May 2012

A mother has been arrested after admitting to police she burned her 15-month-old son's genitals with a hair straightening iron.
Jodi Rock, 19, from Tahlequah, Oklahoma, remains in jail on $200,000 bail after she was charged with felony injury to a minor child.
Her son has been taken into state custody.

Intentionally burned: Jodi Rock, 19, of Tahlequah, remains in the Cherokee County jail on $200,000 bail on a complaint of felony injury to a minor child
According to the three-page arrest affidavit obtained by Tulsa World, Rock told investigators while she was straightening her hair, she touched her hand to the iron then she took and closed the iron’s clamps on the toddler’s genitals.

The toddler had three burns marks which started on the inside of his right thigh, across his testicles and on to the left inner thigh.
'The burn to the left inner thigh appeared to have marks indicating a pinch,' the affidavit states.
The police were called by hospital officials for a possible child abuse case.
At first she tried to implicate her boyfriend and other family members before eventually confessing.


The affidavit also stated that medical examiners found a number of other injuries on the boy.
Several new fractures were found on his left shoulder and 12-week-old fractures were found on his right shoulder.
Forearm and wrist fractures that were somewhere between a day-old and 12-weeks-old and the bones in the forearm and wrists had never been properly set, the affidavit states.
When investigators were called to the hospital, the toddler appeared to be 'glassy eyed' and 'withdrawn'.
When they saw the child's shoulder, investigators noted 'it was slack and had an obvious deformity that was impossible to not notice. The child visually appeared to be in agony'.
Authorities said Rock also said she or her boyfriend could have hurt the child's arms because they both play rough with him by 'pulling him up by the arms and throwing him up in the air and on the bed and such'.


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