Mother killed baby daughter in microwave

adey
By adey

"A mother in the United States has been found guilty of murdering her baby daughter by cooking her in a microwave. China Arnold, 28, put one-month-old Paris Talley in the oven after a fight with her boyfriend.

A jury yesterday found her guilty of aggravated murder and she was remanded for sentencing, with the prospect that she could face the death penalty.

Arnold showed no reaction when the verdict was announced at a court in Dayton, Ohio, but wept as she was led from the dock. Relatives in the courtroom cried and covered their faces with their hands.

At the time of the murder in August 2005, Arnold, her four children and her then boyfriend, Terrell Talley, lived together in a flat on a housing complex in Dayton.

Arnold claimed someone else had killed the child. An eight-year-old boy told the court he saw another boy walk into the kitchen of a nearby apartment with the baby, heard the microwave go on, and later saw the burned baby in the oven.

But Paris's DNA was found inside a microwave in Arnold's apartment, prosecutors said. A forensic pathologist testified that the baby died after being in the microwave for more than two minutes.

Defence lawyer Jon Paul Rion said Arnold was too drunk to remember events on the night of the murder. She had a blood-alcohol level nearly four times the legal driving limit.

Arnold told a cellmate that she put the baby in the microwave because she feared her boyfriend would leave her if he found out the child was not his.

Jurors, who returned their verdict after eight hours' deliberation, will return on Tuesday to consider whether Arnold should face the death penalty."

Thia is just beyond me!!! Mothers all around the world have been known to commit infanticide whilst suffering mental stress and/or post-natal depression; I can only assume this woman's brain 'broke' at the time, any other reason is too horrific and disturbing to even comprehend. Don't get me wrong, what she did is beyond words and she should face the full force of the law but it is even more vomit inducing to consider that she may have been sane at the time!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/30/usa1

By Dii• 10 Sep 2008 22:33
Dii

Waevr she did to her child is extremely sick...she should be in an asylum for sure.

By Salmamohd• 10 Sep 2008 21:44
Salmamohd

do u think dat wat i wrote u din understand????

By corleone• 10 Sep 2008 20:48
corleone

lol that'd be one tight corkscrew...

anyhow, the chinese do have compulsory sterilization after one child.. yes?

By Oryx• 10 Sep 2008 20:31
Oryx

did a pig prick drop on your head

oh sorry I meant Big Brick.... you see when you dont write clearly it can cause unecessary offense.

By t_coffee_or_me• 10 Sep 2008 20:24
t_coffee_or_me

Pass the bobcorn n bebsi please

 

 

 

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By Salmamohd• 10 Sep 2008 20:21
Salmamohd

ok...teach me atleast u knw dis proper english of urs....

By Gypsy• 10 Sep 2008 20:15
Gypsy

What does her having four kids from different fathers have to do with it? Salamaohd, it's called proper English, learn to write in it.

By Salmamohd• 10 Sep 2008 20:13
Salmamohd

what da fuck.....she should b just put in da same oven n just do da same wat da bitch did wd her child....she was a bitch coz she had 4 kids n den dat also frm different fathers ....she must b punished badly for wat she did.....

By MAJID• 9 Sep 2008 09:11
MAJID

that wonman should be hang till dead other wise kill her with wise sward..

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By britexpat• 9 Sep 2008 09:03
britexpat

She has been sentenced to life in prison without parole..

"No adjectives exist to adequately describe this heinous atrocity," Judge Mary Wiseman told China Arnold.

"This act is shocking and utterly abhorrent for a civilised society," the judge said,

She has asked for a retrial..

By thexonic• 31 Aug 2008 06:32
thexonic

What a pathetic wh*re. How could someone be so heartless...

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By Gypsy• 30 Aug 2008 19:40
Gypsy

I suggest they're put in general population. They get killed, it hurts, and it's already in the hands of criminals.

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By Stratty• 30 Aug 2008 18:21
Stratty

Thats a good idea,and I'd appreciate the ride, thanx - it was a good lunch yesterday :)

By anonymous• 30 Aug 2008 17:21
anonymous

glenndale - someone who is capable of killing their own flesh and blood is not going to have any thoughts of how much pain they've caused. They are just too evil to think about anybody else.

By Glenndale• 30 Aug 2008 15:58
Glenndale

I think we should look long and hard at the society we want to bring children into, if there is a situation of no future worthy of bringing children up, ie stable household, and viable parents. That poor child paid with it's life, for being in the wrong household and being born to the wrong mother. I think the death penalty is a cop out here, let her spend 25 years in jail remembering every day the torture and pain that she caused, that would be the punishment of my choosing.

By princess habibah• 30 Aug 2008 15:42
princess habibah

I have to say that I feel the same way sometimes about people getting pregnant. I can never understand how God allows people to have children when they treat them so badly.

however if it were the case then I would probably vote for all of southern california to stop having children because I believe raising them in this rat race is also just as inhumane as beating them!

So where do we draw the line on such things? And when does this type of thinking take us away from putting our trust in God.

Horrible things happen and I can only have hope that God has an ultimate plan and reasoning behind all of this. All of a sudden Heaven is starting to sound a great reward for those who have and will suffer in this world.

Maryum : Umm Hasan bint Abdullah Alshabrawishi

By teena maria• 30 Aug 2008 15:14
teena maria

The baby is so innocent,the hury should not think twice,she's a murderer! Death penalty is the only answer!

By labda06• 30 Aug 2008 14:54
labda06

LOL MagicDragon....hahahhaahaha!!

"Quit hanging on to the handrails . . . Let go. Surrender. Go for the ride of your life. Do it every day." Melody Beattie

By anonymous• 30 Aug 2008 14:47
anonymous

"Post natal depression"? labda? When my first child was born I had another Jack Daniel's. When my second child was born I had a few more Jack Daniel's.

By Gypsy• 30 Aug 2008 14:39
Gypsy

Labda, I agree, post-natal depression really needs to be given more attention.

People already kidnap babies MD, and it'd be easier to find out who kidnapped them, since they wouldn't have a license.

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By anonymous• 30 Aug 2008 14:38
anonymous

I think if your "sterilizing" policy comes true, gypsy, we'll have a new crime rising: baby-kidnapping.

By labda06• 30 Aug 2008 14:37
labda06

What needs to happen is there must be a worldwide ban on all these daft love songs that play on emotions and drive women, and men, to unthinkables!!

Im only half joking. Seriously.

Post nastal depression should be given more media coverage as well.

"Quit hanging on to the handrails . . . Let go. Surrender. Go for the ride of your life. Do it every day." Melody Beattie

By QT• 30 Aug 2008 14:33
QT

11/12 years old where they just became intelligent and compansionate!

Oh wait, they have it already, it's called "Good Parenting!"

By Gypsy• 30 Aug 2008 14:33
Gypsy

Easier to sterilize people then to stop them from having sex. And education doesn't really solve the problem, some of the most uneducated people are some of the world's best parents, while some of the most educated are some of the worst.

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By anonymous• 30 Aug 2008 14:31
anonymous

I hope they come up with a form of education someday that you just give to girls and boys at the age of like 11 and they'll just be prepared and informed until they pass a bunch of tests to prove themselves good parents, then they can have the s*x.

By Gypsy• 30 Aug 2008 14:26
Gypsy

I hope they come up with a form of birth control someday that you just give to girls and boys at the age of like 11 and they'll just be sterilized until they pass a bunch of tests to prove themselves good parents, then they can have the antidote.

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By QT• 30 Aug 2008 14:24
QT

...problems!"

I admit, they won't solve them all!

By labda06• 30 Aug 2008 14:22
labda06

Like the mother who stuck her baby in a freezer because she couldnt get him to stop crying.

This is absolutely pathetic. How come to become an adoptive parent one must go through all kinds of scrutiny but to get preggers, well, no one pays any mind.

"Quit hanging on to the handrails . . . Let go. Surrender. Go for the ride of your life. Do it every day." Melody Beattie

By anonymous• 30 Aug 2008 14:17
Rating: 2/5
anonymous

of course not, QT. Imagine, with her name, she wouldn't even have survived then!

By Gypsy• 30 Aug 2008 14:16
Gypsy

My desire to have people sterilized isn't new. I grew up working with child welfare agencies, orphanages, etc. I know that there's no practical way to enforce it, or really anyway to stop people from having children that doesn't go against human rights. But a gal can dream can't she?

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By QT• 30 Aug 2008 14:15
QT

:-P

By QT• 30 Aug 2008 14:15
QT

...these "basics" that we still haven't managed to get right yet should solve many of these problems!

By anonymous• 30 Aug 2008 14:13
anonymous

It doesn't matter what your intentions are, gypsy. You were always defending democracy, you urged education to be enforced. You had a social view so far. What made you change your mind to use "force" all of a sudden?

By Gypsy• 30 Aug 2008 14:11
Gypsy

Yes, I'm sure Hitler say back and said all those brown haired people like to burn their children in microwaves, we need to stop them from breeding.

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By QT• 30 Aug 2008 14:09
QT

:-P

By Gypsy• 30 Aug 2008 14:07
Gypsy

I don't want to sterilize people to create an Arayan race MD. I want to sterilize people to try and prevent children being born into situations were their parents toast them in microwaves.

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By anonymous• 30 Aug 2008 14:04
anonymous

gypsy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Germany (1936 - 1945)

By Gypsy• 30 Aug 2008 14:01
Gypsy

Nah, I'm wondering if you can't sterilize people by force.

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By QT• 30 Aug 2008 13:57
QT

lol

By Gypsy• 30 Aug 2008 13:48
Rating: 2/5
Gypsy

4 kids by 28, 4 different Dads (probably not sure who the fathers are). I think you should need to get a license before you're allowed to have kids.

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By owen• 30 Aug 2008 13:26
owen

this woman shouldn't be put on the cell but on a mental assylum.. sick!

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By Stratty• 30 Aug 2008 12:30
Stratty

Murder by the state might satisfy your outrage, but it wont stop it happening again - otherwise it wouldnt have happened this time. Worth it? Enough punishment points?

Up for the JJ by the way :)

By Rizks• 30 Aug 2008 12:07
Rizks

WTF ......

SICK SICK SICK people.....we find in this World..!!

I wished i was the lawyer and i would hav punished tat Bl*dy MF Mother but putting her in tat oven for atleast an HR....

By coelacanth• 30 Aug 2008 11:46
coelacanth

Put her inside the Microwave oven for 30mins so that she'll feel what the baby felt during the 2 minutes of torture! I hate it when people kill children...worst babies...and much worse...mother killing her own child. SICK!!!!

It's not because things are difficult that we don't dare, it's because we don't dare that makes things difficult!

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