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Mom Accused Of Cooking Baby In Microwave Won’t Face Death Penalty

February 6, 2012 at 2:32 pm by  

Ka Yang Mom Accused Of Cooking Baby In Microwave Wont Face Death PenaltySACRAMENTO, CA – Because she does not have a criminal past, the woman accused of killing her infant by cooking her in a microwave will not face the death penalty.

Last year, 30-year-old Ka Yang was charged with torture and murder after her 6-week-old daughter,  Mirabelle, was found dead in her home. Yang told investigators that she was holding her baby when she had a seizure and passed out. When she woke up she said she found her infant dead on the ground beside her.

An autopsy would later show that the baby had died an absolutely horrible death, suffering from the kind of extensive thermal injuries one would suffer if cooked inside microwave like a really messed up Hot Pocket.

It would take three months for police to finish their investigation but once concluded Yang was charged with murder and had her three boys, who were all under the age of 7, removed from her home.

Yang and her family learned prosecutors would not seek the death penalty during a brief hearing on Friday. However,Yang  is still facing a special-circumstance charge of torture that could send her to life in prison with no chance of parole.

Yang is the second person I know of who blames a seizure on cooking their infant in a microwave. In 1999, 5-week-old Joseph Lewis Martinez was cooked by his mother, Virginia Martinez, after she said she became confused during an epileptic seizure and placed the boy in the microwave instead of a bottle of milk.

Yang is the third person we’ve covered on the site who has been accused or convicted of cooking their kid in a microwave. China Arnold was found guilty of cooking 4-week-old Paris Talley in a microwave and Joshua Mauldin was accused of placing 2-month-old Ana Mauldin inside a motel room microwave and turning it on for 10 seconds.

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  • Anonymous

    wish I could get an update on that MS woman that cooked her little boy in the oven last year.

  • http://www.facebook.com/jessilyn.vasquez Jessilyn Varney

    Wow!! So, I guess getting away with murder is much easier than it looks….. I hope she rots in hell.. Can’t believe someone can do harm to a child…

  • Eliza Berntsen

    What a sick fuck. Sick, sick, sick fuck. Just let her rot. Somewhere. Anywhere. As long as it’s nasty and infested by some flesh eating ants.

    P.S. Where did she get a microwave big enough to fit a baby? They aren’t that small when newborn!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_5WYTW5UWWTGEKN4L2HBZ7I4E5E Zazen

    LWOP is still a good, good thing.

  • LeaveMeBe

    But not as good as the DP (in this case), with the method of execution being a human sized microwave with three glass walls for spectators.

  • Prominent Prozac

    :( WTH, where’s my comment?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_5WYTW5UWWTGEKN4L2HBZ7I4E5E Zazen

    I dunno, microwaving’s always so quick. LWOP would give allow her to stew for a good long time >.>

  • Anonymous

    Yes, DP is a good thing.

    Double Penetration that is.

    For this assfuck I wish nothing but ripped innards with lots of boiling water on her face & guts… cook HER motherfucking ass while still alive.

  • Anonymous

    Fuck this broad too.

  • LeaveMeBe

    Dang it. Maybe we could just put it on defrost so it would take a long time for her to die.

  • Anonymous

    So what’s with the epidemic of seizure defenses?  I know some people who have seizures and I’m sure that there are things they have to do in an effort to make sure they and their children are protected.  But put your child in the microwave?  I’m pretty sure I would have off’ed myself if I came to and realized I killed my baby.  I would not want to live.

  • Josh

    This is the kind of women you dump boiling water down her throat and she pisses ice cubes. Defrost would only warm the piss up a few degrees….

  • Josh

    If I can read this then I can see your comment. =)

  • Prominent Prozac

    :( No way, I was first comment.

    I got monitored and then probably removed. :( FU Morbid. I thought we were friends.

  • Josh

    Short and sweet!

  • http://profiles.google.com/sarahl4d Sarah L4d

    Hmm, i find it interesting that she has 3 MALE kids and she kills her baby girl. I think i’d be throwing hate crime in there…or…what’s it called when people of certain cultures/races believe girls are bad and they keep the boys?

  • Anonymous

    This was is china!! It was a mini newborn. But no, still not as small as a bottle….

  • Anonymous

    Whatever happened to just giving the kids up for adoption?

  • Anonymous

     They should deep fry her ass.

  • Josh

    You sound hungry… =)

  • Anonymous

    Having suffered epilespy as a child and having seizures, I don’t even see how this could be a good defense.It takes time to fully wake up to move your body, your mind is the first part that wakes up. At least in my case it was.

  • Anonymous

    This is probably another case where a woman did not want all those children, but do to a belief system and an over barring husband, will end up with a boat load of unwanted children. Iam sure she showed signs of her fuckuppedness that went ignored.That poor baby.

  • Anonymous

    Was Virginia Martinez ever prosecuted?

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/EGR3Z2YJMFNQMOGT6NZABD74EA rhia

    I liked your comment, but I’m still gonna criticize anyway:
    http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-mom-kills-baby-in-microwave,0,3035847.story 
    “Friends told FOX40 Yang always wanted a girl and waited years to have one.”

  • Anonymous

    Not sure if lacking reading comprehension, or just lacking grammar…

  • Anonymous

    Misogyny? Femicide? Sexism? XD

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/XO7SU55HV3ZRPOWU5JUESCSCOQ bottleblonde

    What a load of crap.  BS on the “seizure” crap.  I think she should be cooked in a microwave as her punishment.

  • Andy P

    I dated someone for two years that had grand-mal seizures (the worst of the two kinds.)  And let me tell you – they absolutely wipe ypu out.  Yes you’re out of it, but in a laying down fetal type situation.  I think it would be HIGHLY unlikely that anyone could actually put their kid in there during one.

  • Anonymous

    This is some bullshit. Torturing someone to death should always be a DP case.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/John-House/1011555524 John House

    We have an “industrial” microwave that we got at CostCo.  It’s big enough to cook a turkey in it, so I would suppose it’s big enough to cook a baby in it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/John-House/1011555524 John House

    I think their shitty lawyers are trying to get them to think of some “medical”-type of tangible diagnosis re: neurology to explain this shit because your average person wouldn’t know what a “[psychogenic] fugue” is (which is much more accurate when you want to describe something like this).  So one asshole uses it and then it catches on/spreads, kind of like a trend in defenses…or like herpes….

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/John-House/1011555524 John House

    …I’m so fucking sick of humans treating murderers like this with kid gloves.  And fuck off to all who would tell me “Oh, but you don’t want to sink to ~their~ level now, so that’s why they have rights….”

    Fuck.  Their.  ”Rights”.  The moment you take a human life [barring saving your own life/self defense/defense of others], your rights to be treated humanely expire in my book.

    Burn this bitch alive, the same way she did to her kid.

  • Anonymous

    Eye for an eye is whats needed! Large microwave sounds good

  • Anonymous

    They don’t necessarily think girls are ‘bad’, but girls in those cultures will not ensure their parents’ future financially the way boys will. It’s not misogynistic ideology, just practical greed.

  • Anonymous

    I’m not trying to make excuses for someone who microwaved her baby, but doesn’t this sound like a bucket full o’ crazy to anyone else? She didn’t lose it because the baby was crying and shake her, and she reportedly wanted a girl for years, so it wasn’t as if she didn’t want the baby. She didn’t have a motive, nor try to hide what she’d done.

    I can’t help but wonder if there isn’t some medical/mental issue that truly was out of her control. It happens.

  • EveryVillainIsLemons

    My ex-husband had epilepsy, and I got to witness his grand mal seizures since he wouldn’t take proper care of himself.  When they were over, he could think normally (for him, anyway), but he was weak as a kitten for at least half a day.  I don’t see how even a petit mal seizure could cause the kind of disconnection that leads to nuking a kid.  It was most likely a mental breakdown rather than a neurological one.

  • Anonymous

    Lol, that’s not so much the case nowadays…I’m not sure as to the actual nationality of this woman or of her ancestors, but I do know that in China, women are just as able to earn as much as men do, with the standard invisible glass barrier there, of course. However, the current  general dread of female babies is due more to ancient cultural bias..there is still the perceived notion that a female will only belong to her husband’s family after she marries, and so on.

    That aside, this woman in particular WAS living in California, meaning that she should (I’m giving her some benefit of the doubt) have realized that a girl baby was just as precious.

    I personally think she just went b*tshit. 

  • Anonymous

    It’s not about the earning potential, but about the family structure. In many cultures, when a girl grows up, she gets married and moves into her in-laws home, and becomes part of their family. A son stays home, and his wife joins his family. So if you have four daughters and no sons, there will literally not be anyone there to care for you when you are old.

    Most of these cultures do not do anything about this other than have plenty of kids, to increase the odds that at least one boy will live to adulthood. But some (notably India) use practices like gender-selective abortion to ensure a baby (especially the firstborn) will be a boy. How common it is can be inferred by the male/female birth ratio in different countries.

    But with all that said, this woman was American, and we have absolutely NO reason to assume that just because her eyes have a different slant than ours do, that she believes killing girl-babies is a-okay. Also, she reportedly had wanted a girl for years, so this is all completely irrelevant.

  • jake8jazz

    This woman’s head creeps me out. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/michaellelynnterry22 Michelle Terry

    i cant belive people would blame suzuers i had theme my salf u shake all over and u cant walk whene haveing one it stuped that people wold use that people that kill any babys or kids should get death she know what she was doing i people who dont whant kids need to keep there legs close or give theme up

  • http://www.facebook.com/michaellelynnterry22 Michelle Terry

    hi

  • Anonymous

    Really.. I can’t believe someone can get off doing harm to anyone..