Trial starts in baby's microwave death

[Wonder]

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080128/NEWS01/301280020/1056/COL02

Coroner's officials say the baby suffered high-heat internal injuries and had no external burns.

She said she warmed a bottle in the microwave oven, tried to give it to the baby, changed the child's diaper and then fell asleep on the couch with the baby on her chest.

Earlier this month, defense witness Robert Belloto, a staff pharmacist at Good Samaritan Hospital, testified that he doesn't believe it would have been possible for Arnold to place the baby in the microwave because the woman was so intoxicated.

Belloto said Arnold told him she had consumed about 40 percent of a pint of high-proof rum in 90 minutes. :mad:

[Wonder]

same story with photo

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/01/28/baby.microwave.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

[Dark Star]

God, I read about this. I cannot understand how she could have been so drunk, that she'd put the baby in the microwave, Jesus Christ. There is really no other explanation with the autopsy showing the internal burns, though. My god, I cannot for the life of me, imagine the horror. A long time ago, I used to drink a lot, I had no kids then, but still.....microwaving the baby? Man, it makes me a little nauseous, I'm just in shock with this story.

[Dark Star]

Just found this...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22938677/

This story is even more twisted, than I thought before.:eek:

[ells9824]

A judge declared a mistrial Monday in the case of woman
accused of killing her month-old baby by burning her in a microwave, finding
that new defense witnesses bolster her claim that she is innocent.

Judge John Kessler made the decision after hearing testimony privately from
a juvenile who said he was at the apartment complex of defendant China
Arnold on the night her infant died in August 2005. The judge did not give
details about the juvenile's testimony.

http://wral.com/news/national_world/national/story/2422472/

[swivel]

I read that the judge is going to press "Popcorn" and only give the jurors 3 minutes for their ruling. Can anyone confirm this?

[nurseronda]

The Dayton Daily News later reported that the mistrial came after a man told defense attorneys that his 5-year-old son identified an older child as the person who might have put the baby in the oven, saying the older child had a history of putting cats and dolls into microwaves.



http://www.ksl.com/?nid=157&sid=2561041

[michelle]

THis post reminds me of this story that tore me up her in VA. TORE me up. Poor baby. SHit
Lanexa, Va. - Authorities are investigating whether a sever epileptic seizure could have caused a mother in this rural Virginia town to become so disoriented that she put her 1-month- old baby into a microwave oven, killing it.
The death of Joseph Lewis Martinez has stunned this tight- knit community 35 miles east of Richmond. No Charges have been filed, but Commonwealth's Attorney C. Linwood Gregory and the New Kent County Sherriff's Office are conducting a criminal investigation. The State medical examiner, who said the baby had burns resembling those a microwave oven would cause, performed an autopsy but has not released a cause of death pending further tests.
Elizabeth Renee Otte, 19, the mother of the child was taking medication for epilepsy, friends and authorities say.
Authorities would reveal little about their investigation, declining to say whether they believe Otte put the baby in the microwave. But the investigation is focusing on her.
A law enforcement source, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said authorities are researching wheter Otte's epilepsy could have caused hallucinations and bizarre behavior.
According to the Landover, Md.-base Epilepsy Foundation of America, an epileptic seizure focused on one part of the brain could lead a sufferer to become temporarily confused and to commit unconscious acts.

[nurseronda]

Thanks Michelle, I ran out of the thanks button type of thanks. :smile:

[michelle]

Thanks Michelle, I ran out of the thanks button type of thanks. :smile:
*michelle bows to ronda*

[sweet_misery]

China Arnold, 28, has been found guilty of aggravated murder and could receive the death penalty.

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20080829/Baby.Death.Microwave/

[Silvahalo]

China Arnold, 28, has been found guilty of aggravated murder and could receive the death penalty.

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20080829/Baby.Death.Microwave/

I was just about to post an update...thanks SweetMisery. This case is just so heartbreaking.

Rest in peace baby Paris.

[nurseronda]

I was just about to post an update...thanks SweetMisery. This case is just so heartbreaking.

Rest in peace baby Paris.
Alright!!!! I hope that she does receive the death penalty and I just hope they strap her to the electric chair so that she may have an idea of how much pain she put that poor innocent baby through.

I agree, this story is just heartbreaking.

[Gilbrit]

Alright!!!! I hope that she does receive the death penalty and I just hope they strap her to the electric chair so that she may have an idea of how much pain she put that poor innocent baby through.

I'm glad the jury didn't buy it when the defense was trying to implicate the boy.

Now, I'll keep my fingers crossed for the sentancing....

[michelle]

Alright!!!! I hope that she does receive the death penalty and I just hope they strap her to the electric chair so that she may have an idea of how much pain she put that poor innocent baby through.

I agree, this story is just heartbreaking.

Couldn't we just put her dumb ass in a microwave. Is there one big enough? Don't meat packing companies have huge irradiators, FRY HER. *blah*

[Gilbrit]

Couldn't we just put her dumb ass in a microwave. Is there one big enough? Don't meat packing companies have huge irradiators, FRY HER. *blah*


In cases like this, I dream of the day, when murderer's are punished, in the same manner they killed.

[Just my luck sucks]

Ditto--I'd like to see her fry.

A long time ago I read a sickening article where a lady put her small dog in a microwave to "dry it"

I remember thinking to myself how "dry" her brain cells must have been and how much I like to see her head blow up like a popcorn kernel. Thinking the same thing in this case. :puke:

[Gilbrit]

http://i324.photobucket.com/albums/k349/Gilbrit/chinaarnold.jpg


DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- A woman convicted of murdering her infant daughter by microwaving her was spared the death penalty Wednesday by a jury that couldn't reach a unanimous decision.

China Arnold showed no immediate reaction, but she smiled and waved to family members as deputies led her from the courtroom. Her relatives told her they loved her.

"I love you all, too," said Arnold, 28.

The defense had argued that Arnold was drunk when the offense occurred and had no motive, while prosecutors had called the crime "heinous" as they argued for the death penalty.

After about five hours of deliberation, the jury told Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Mary Wiseman that it couldn't decide whether to recommend the death penalty or life in prison, and that it wouldn't be able to make such a decision even if it deliberated through Thursday.

Wiseman is now limited to sentencing Arnold to life in prison without parole, life without parole for at least 30 years, or life without parole for at least 25 years. She plans to impose her sentence Monday.

Skank's Story (http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/09/03/microwave.baby.ap/index.html?eref=ib_topstories)

I'd like to beat that dumb ass bitch to death.
A baby is dead and the jurors are wimps.
SHIT! SHIT! SHIT!

[Kitty]

http://hamptonroads.cox.net/cci/newsnational/national?_mode=view&_state=maximized&view=article&id=D932PTN00&_action=validatearticle

" A woman was sentenced Monday to life in prison without the chance for parole for burning her baby daughter to death in a microwave after fighting with her boyfriend."

[TheLittleFriend]

"....a jury that couldn't reach a unanimous decision..."

What a bunch of fuckards. If I were there, I'll scream at them until they come to sense! That woman murdered the baby for god's sake!

[crickett]

China Arnold, 28, has been found guilty of aggravated murder and could receive the death penalty.

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20080829/Baby.Death.Microwave/
So the child who had thought someone else killed the baby was NOT in the apartment complex that night. And the mother admitted to another inmate that she HAD killed the baby.:angry:
Fucking baby murdering Cunt!

[brokenandtwisted]

Posting for irony, in case someone made a thread already for it:

5-month-old baby killed in clothes dryer in Harvey

Thursday September 11, 2008, 10:08 PM

A 5-month-old boy was killed in Harvey Thursday when his baby sitter allegedly put him in her clothes dryer because she had become frustrated with him, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office said.

The baby sitter, Ariel Smith, 19, was booked with first-degree murder.

Smith, of 512 MacArthur Drive in Harvey, called 911 shortly before 11:15 a.m. and reported a baby at that location who was not breathing, said JPSO spokesman Col. John Fortunato.

First responders found the child, Andre Jenkins, lying on the floor unresponsive at that address, the JPSO spokesman said. The child was pronounced dead on the scene.

JPSO investigators learned the infant was dropped off along with his 18-month-old brother at Smith's home Thursday morning by his mother, identified as Brandy Dozier, Fortunato said.

Smith first told investigators that burns on the child's body were received when his brother pushed a pot of boiling water from her stove onto the child, he said.

Under questioning by homicide detective Keith Locascio, Smith later admitted the infant sustained the burns when she placed him into the clothes dryer, turned it on and left the room, Fortunato said.

"She stated she was frustrated with the child, " Fortunato said.

When she returned, the child wasn't breathing, she told investigators, Fortunato said.

Dozier, the child's mother, said she left for work after dropping off the children and later received a call from Smith telling her that the child had stopped breathing, Fortunato said.

http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/09/5monthold_baby_killed_in_cloth.html

Blaming the burns on the brother. Classy babysitter!

[Miss Anthrope]

http://msnbcmedia3.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/101105-microwave-death-vmed12p.grid-4x2.jpg


CINCINNATI — A state appeals court on Friday reversed the murder conviction of a woman accused of burning her baby daughter to death in a microwave oven.

The 2nd District Ohio Court of Appeals made the ruling in the case of China Arnold, sentenced in 2008 to life in prison without parole for the death of her month-old daughter.

Arnold was convicted of aggravated murder for killing 28-day-old Paris Talley in August 2005. Prosecutors said Arnold intentionally put the baby in the microwave after a fight with her boyfriend. They said the couple had argued over whether the boyfriend was the biological father.

Arnold was sentenced following her second trial; her first ended in a mistrial when new witnesses surfaced.

The Dayton-based appeals court ruled there was prosecutorial misconduct and that the trial court erred in not allowing a material witness for the defense to testify.

Montgomery County prosecutors are reviewing the ruling before commenting, prosecutor's spokesman Greg Flannagan said.

Linda Williams, a cellmate of Arnold and main witness for the state in the first trial, came forward after Arnold's conviction and said she had lied to the jury when she said Arnold confessed that she put her daughter in the microwave oven. Williams failed to appear at the second trial and the court allowed the prosecution to play a videotape of her earlier trial testimony implicating Arnold.

In the second trial, the appeals court said, the lower court denied the defendant "her right to a fair trial when the court permitted the state to introduce in evidence Williams' testimony from the first trial." The appeals court cited prior case law that says a fair trial demands that the accused be tried on "evidence produced in open court by witnesses who can be confronted, cross-examined and rebutted."

The appeals court found misconduct by prosecutors by their failure in the first trial to provide timely notice of Williams' address to the defense. The limited opportunity prosecutors allowed the defense to interview Williams — for only few minutes before her trial testimony — denied an adequate opportunity for preparation for cross-examination of Williams, the appeals court said.

As a result, the defendant was denied "the right of prior confrontation" as required when former testimony of a hearsay witness is admitted in evidence," the court said.

The trial court also erred in not allowing the defense to introduce evidence at the second trial from a new witness, whose statements the defense contended contradicted Williams' testimony, the ruling said. The new witness, Kyra Woods, would have testified to the jury that Williams told her that Arnold never confessed to her that she put the baby in the microwave, defense attorney Jon Paul Rion said.

Woods was a cellmate of Williams after Williams left the cell she shared with Arnold.

"We are very thrilled about the results," Rion said Friday. "We realized from the first day she was innocent and we have maintained that."

Rion said his client was "elated when she heard news and said she always confident in the judicial system."

He said he hopes that Arnold will be back in the Montgomery County jail within a week, and he plans to seek a bail hearing as soon as possible.


I am officially sick to my stomach . . .This bitch should fry

[AngelFire]

I hope karma justice will finish the work that law seemed to have fucked up.

[Nell]

"We are very thrilled about the results," Rion said Friday. "We realized from the first day she was innocent and we have maintained that."


The cellmate shouldn't have lied if she did, but this woman is in no way innocent. She put the baby in the micro. They argued she had a seizure and didn't mean to. I call bullshit. She meant to. Either way she did it.

[badfish76]

I call bullshit on the "too drunk to know what she was doing/blacking out" aspect for sure.

50% of a pint is three stiff drinks. She had a little less than that over an hour and a half time period.

The state screwed the pooch and here we are AGAIN with this fucked up case. If she did this they better get it right this time and get her put away forever. No way she was blackout drunk off 3 drinks in an hour and a half. She HAS to know what happened to the baby, and my bet is that she did, indeed, commit this atrocity.

[badfish76]

I call bullshit on the "too drunk to know what she was doing/blacking out" aspect for sure.

50% of a pint is three stiff drinks. She had a little less than that over an hour and a half time period.

The state screwed the pooch and here we are AGAIN with this fucked up case. If she did this they better get it right this time and get her put away forever. No way she was blackout drunk off 3 drinks in an hour and a half. She HAS to know what happened to the baby, and my bet is that she did, indeed, commit this atrocity.

[misssmartypants]

Goodness , she knew what she was doing. I rehash coffee in the nuker. with a.m. eyes.. It takes some steps to accomplish believe it or not. Drunk, dang near impossible with something similar to a wiggly ham. A crying wiggly ham. With clothes on. Thats what I dont get.

[MadeaBecBec]

New trial started Tuesday, May 3, 2011

DAYTON - China Arnold, on trial for her life for the third time in three years, sat quietly as attorneys mapped out opening statements familiar to those who followed her first two trials.

Assistant Montgomery County prosecutor Dan Brandt said that Arnold, now 31, killed her baby in a microwave oven on August 30, 2005. She was the only caregiver at her home when the child died between 1:15 and 3:15 a.m., Brandt said.

He also said that Arnold admitted her crime, telling her boyfriend Terrell Talley that “I killed my baby.”

Defense attorney Jon Paul Rion said that, at the time Arnold made that statement, she did not know how 28-day-old Paris Talley died and instinctively blamed herself, thinking she may have rolled over on the baby while they were sleeping together on a couch.

“What you have heard is not true,” Rion told the jury.“Her own daughter, Paris, was murdered, or killed, but not by China.”

Rion said Arnold was extremely intoxicated that night and passed out on the couch. He did not say who killed the baby, but noted a witness would testify she saw a boy enter the residence in the middle of the night.

http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/daytoncourts/entries/2011/05/03/china_arnold_trial_attorneys_g.html

Crap, defense is still blaming another child....

[Silvahalo]

He did not say who killed the baby, but noted a witness would testify she saw a boy enter the residence in the middle of the night.Well, I find it odd that a boy would enter their home between 1-3am and put a baby in the microwave....but, I guess you never know.

IF this is true I hope they can prove it and the person who did this horrid thing pays dearly. I sincerely mean that. I'm not interested in the wrong person going to prison/dp. The mother might have been stupid and neglectful but IF she didn't do this it all pales in comparison to putting a baby in a microwave.

Rest in peace baby Paris Talley
http://i510.photobucket.com/albums/s341/silvahalo68/Angels/th_Whitenbaby.jpg?t=1304647676

[MadeaBecBec]

Convicted Again!!

China Arnold, 31, 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 Monday.


http://www.woodtv.com/dpps/news/national/midwest/ohio-mom-guilty-in-microwave-baby-case-nt11-tvw_3810348

I do not believe she'll get a death sentence, hopefully, prayerfully she will get Life without parole.....

[Jerri Blank]

Life sentence for Ohio mom who microwaved baby
Prosecutors say woman intentionally killed daughter after fight with boyfriend


DAYTON, Ohio — An Ohio woman convicted of killing her month-old baby daughter in a microwave oven was spared the death penalty and sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole.

Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Mary Wiseman sentenced China Arnold, 31, of Dayton.

Arnold was convicted last week of aggravated murder by the same jury that recommended her punishment. Jurors deliberated about six hours Thursday and Friday.

Prosecutors say Arnold intentionally put 28-day-old Paris Talley in a microwave and turned it on after a fight with her boyfriend. The defense argued that someone else was likely responsible for the baby's death.
Medical experts testified that the baby died quickly after her temperature reached between 107 to 108 degrees Fahrenheit. They said she probably was in the microwave for more than two minutes.

"She died because she was overheated," said Dr. Marcella Fierro, retired chief medical examiner for Virginia. "She was cooked."
It was Arnold's third trial in her daughter's 2005 death. Her first trial ended in a mistrial. She was found guilty in the second, but an appeals court reversed the conviction.

Messages seeking comment were left Friday for the prosecutor and the defense attorney. A gag order has prevented anyone connected to the case from commenting outside court.
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43111616/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

[Pete Bondurant]

Jim Henson's Microwave Babies


http://www.bay-of-fundie.com/img/2007/microwave-baby.jpg