Microwave baby killer convicted

China Arnold (archive image)

A jury will decide if China Arnold should face the death penalty

(BBC NEWS) – A US court in Dayton, Ohio, has convicted a mother of murdering her one-month-old daughter by burning her to death in a microwave oven.

China Arnold, 28, showed no emotion when the jury announced its guilty verdict, only lowering her head.

The prosecution said that Arnold had killed her daughter, Paris Talley, in 2005 after a fight with her boyfriend.

The jury will reassemble next Tuesday to decide if Arnold, convicted of aggravated murder, should face death.

Officials investigating the case said Paris Talley had suffered high-heat internal burns but had no external marks.

Prosecutors said that the baby’s DNA had been found inside the microwave in Arnold’s apartment.

Arnold’s cellmate told the court that she had confessed to putting her daughter in the microwave and switching it on, because she was afraid that her boyfriend would leave her if he discovered that he was not the baby’s father.

The defence team said that there was evidence that somebody else was responsible for Paris Talley’s death.

An eight-year-old boy told the court he had seen another boy walk into the kitchen of a nearby apartment, heard the microwave being switched on and had later seen the burned baby in the oven.

However, the boy’s mother said they lived some distance away and that they were not in Arnold’s apartment complex when Paris Talley died.

3 Responses

  1. Fucking angin sick twat,she needs shooting afder wot shes done! shes fucking horriable.
    poor baby :|
    aww.
    :( x

  2. There was no evidence that China was the actual person to put the child in the microwave, and a 5 yr old witness claimed a child from the neighbohood did it. I think she should be responsible for negeting the baby and at least given credit for taking her to the hospital. Who knows maybe she was so drunk she did it by a drunken mistake,went crazy or depressed, or someone else really did it. But she does have 3 healthy children and attempted to save her child. I do not find the death penalty justified in any case. Only God has the right to take life away, killing does not justify another’s death.

  3. One thing for certain, whether she did it or not she is
    certainly paying the price for it, and even if she wasn’t in
    prison she cannot live one day without the thought of
    little Paris crying in her head over & over again, for China
    Arnold to be murdered by the State would only be the easy
    way out for her if she did it, and a way of silencing the
    voice of Paris, that will surely haunt her for the rest of her life.

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