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Mom microwaved baby

Can a Mother do this to a Month old her own child ?

A mother was convicted on Friday of killing her month-old daughter by burning her in a microwave oven, with jurors rejecting a defence attorney’s claims there was evidence that someone else was responsible.

China Arnold, 28, showed no reaction when the jury’s verdict was announced and then lowered her head, looking down at the defence table. Relatives in the courtroom cried and covered their faces with their hands.
She was found guilty of aggravated murder and faces the death penalty if sentenced. Prosecutors said Arnold intentionally put her baby in the microwave oven and cooked the child to death after a fight with her boyfriend.
Arnolds’ cellmate testified that she confessed to putting the baby in the microwave and turned it on as she was worried her boyfriend would leave her if he found out the child was not his. The baby’s DNA was found inside the microwave in Arnold’s apartment, prosecutors said. Defence attorney Jon Paul Rion told the there was evidence that someone else was responsible.

At the time of the murder in August 2005, Arnold, her four children and her then boyfriend, Terrell Talley, lived together in a flat in a housing complex in Dayton.

An eight-year-old boy told the court he saw another boy walking into the kitchen of a nearby apartment with the baby, heard the microwave go on, and later saw the burned baby in the oven.

A forensic pathologist testified that the baby died after being in the microwave for more than two minutes.
Defence lawyer Rion said Arnold was too drunk to remember events on the night of the murder. She had a blood-alcohol level nearly four times the legal driving limit.

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