Death by Microwave - 1 month old

(Photo Credit: China Daily)

This is sad… sick and I bet she doesn’t get much time. I wonder who will protect this poor woman from being prosecuted for murder. Heck… if it had been 1 month earlier there wouldn’t even be a case.

An Ohio mom is suspected of murdering her baby by placing the infant in the microwave, police said yesterday.

China Arnold, 26, a Dayton mother of four, brought her dead 1-month-old daughter to a hospital a year ago. The child, who had suffered mysterious burns, died of hyperthermia - high body temperature - due to thermal injury, a coroner ruled.

“We have reason to believe, and scientific evidence to support, that a microwave oven might be involved in the death of this child,” Ken Betz, director of the Montgomery County coroner’s office, said yesterday.

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The baby’s body had obvious burns. It’s difficult to describe,” said White. Arnold provided “little or no information” about how the burns occurred when she brought the dead baby to Dayton Children’s Hospital, White said.

Determined investigators, including the coroner’s crew who examined the infant’s organs, eventually cracked the case. The microwave was seized and examined by a CSI team, White said.

The article says she was stunned to learn how the baby died… like I buy that.

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