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

[Hippiepoet]

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.

[Hippiepoet]

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/

[silvahalo68]

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!