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Phantom
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Thu Aug 28, 2008 8:02 pm |
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Prosecutor: Ohio mother put baby girl in microwave
Prosecutor: Ohio mother put baby girl in microwave
DAYTON, Ohio - A mother intentionally put her month-old daughter in a microwave oven and cooked the child to death after a fight with her boyfriend, a prosecutor told jurors Thursday.
Defendant China Arnold and her boyfriend had argued over whether he was the biological father, Assistant Montgomery County prosecutor Daniel Brandt said during closing arguments in the woman's retrial. The argument got so heated that Arnold bit her boyfriend's lip and he slapped her, Brandt said.
Arnold, 28, of Dayton, is accused of killing her infant daughter Paris Talley in 2005. She could face the death penalty if convicted of aggravated murder.
Brandt said Arnold told a cellmate she put the baby in the microwave and turned it on because she was worried her boyfriend would leave her if he found out the child wasn't his, Brandt said.
"She could have stopped it with one finger, but she didn't," Brandt said. "We know she used that microwave as the instrument of death."
Defense attorney Jon Paul Rion told the jury there was evidence that someone else was responsible.
He cited testimony from a boy who said he saw another boy walk into the kitchen of a nearby apartment with the baby, heard the microwave go on, and then later saw the burned baby in the microwave.
"He told a very believable story," Rion said.
Jurors deliberated for about four hours Thursday and were expected to resume deliberations Friday.
Judge John Kessler declared a mistrial in February after he privately heard the youngster's account. The boy, now 8, testified at the retrial Tuesday.
In rebuttal, however, the 8-year-old's mother testified Wednesday that they lived some distance away and they were not at Arnold's apartment complex when the baby died. Her former live-in boyfriend also testified that he was certain the boy was not at the location.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080828/ap_on_re_us/baby_death_microwave;_ylt=AuZBEK.C8KOnDoPXe704ER1H2ocA
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| woebedamned
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Fri Aug 29, 2008 4:35 pm |
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Microwave baby killer convicted
A US court in Dayton, Ohio, has convicted a mother of murdering her one-month-old daughter by burning her to death in a microwave oven.
China Arnold, 28, showed no emotion when the jury announced its guilty verdict, only lowering her head.
The prosecution said that Arnold had killed her daughter, Paris Talley, in 2005 after a fight with her boyfriend.
The jury will reassemble next Tuesday to decide if Arnold, convicted of aggravated murder, should face death.
Officials investigating the case said Paris Talley had suffered high-heat internal burns but had no external marks.
Prosecutors said that the baby's DNA had been found inside the microwave in Arnold's apartment.
Arnold's cellmate told the court that she had confessed to putting her daughter in the microwave and switching it on, because she was afraid that her boyfriend would leave her if he discovered that he was not the baby's father.
The defence team said that there was evidence that somebody else was responsible for Paris Talley's death.
An eight-year-old boy told the court he had seen another boy walk into the kitchen of a nearby apartment, heard the microwave being switched on and had later seen the burned baby in the oven.
However, the boy's mother said they lived some distance away and that they were not in Arnold's apartment complex when Paris Talley died.
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| dugo
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Fri Aug 29, 2008 4:54 pm |
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If you cram a baby in a microwave you don't even have to turn it on to kill it..
or.. are USAian microwaves different?
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