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I hate hearing like this. Some people should not be parents.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/01/31/....ap/index.html
Cellmate: Mom said baby 'fit right in' microwave
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- A former cellmate of a woman accused of killing her month-old baby by burning the girl in a microwave testified Thursday that the woman confessed to the crime, saying the baby "fit right in" the oven.
Linda Williams testified that she developed a sexual relationship with defendant China Arnold when the two were cellmates in the Montgomery County jail in March.
Arnold confided in her about what happened to her baby, Wiliams said.
Arnold feared that her boyfriend believed he wasn't the child's father and that he was going to leave her, Williams told the jury.
"She said she put the baby into the microwave and started it and left the house," Williams said.
Williams said she asked Arnold how she got the child into the oven.
"She said she fit right in," Williams said.
Sitting at the defense table, the 27-year-old Arnold showed little emotion as her trial got under way in the August 2005 death of Paris Talley at their Dayton home.
Under cross-examination by defense attorney Jon Paul Rion, Williams acknowledged that she met with detectives after the alleged conversation and told them Arnold had said she didn't know how the baby died.
Williams, who has since been released from jail, said she lied to detectives in that initial interview because she had feelings for Arnold.
In his opening statement, Rion said: "The evidence is going to show that she did not purposely take the life of her own baby."
Rion said that other people had access to the baby, that Arnold was intoxicated to the point of blacking out when the child died and that people questioned about the case changed their stories. Rion also raised questions about the reliability of the science when it comes to determining the effect of microwaves on humans.
Thermal burns on the baby were different from those that would have been suffered from a fire, electrical shock, hot water, an iron or chemicals, said Russell Uptegrove, a forensic pathologist with the Montgomery County coroner's office. It took him awhile to consider that the burns might have come from a microwave oven, he said.
"It was so heinous to think of that, that I couldn't convince myself it was a real possibility," Uptegrove said.
DNA recovered from the ceiling of the oven matched that of the baby, he said.
During the opening statement by Assistant Montgomery County Prosecutor Daniel Brandt, a photo of the burned baby was flashed on a screen for the 12-member jury to see. Arnold sat quietly, occasionally jotting notes on a yellow legal pad.
Brandt said Arnold killed the child after arguing with her boyfriend over whether they had been faithful to each other.
When the couple took the baby to the hospital, Brandt said, Arnold exclaimed: "'I killed my baby. I killed my baby."'
Brandt said Arnold later told police it never would have happened had she not gotten so drunk. He said Arnold, who has been in jail since she was charged in November 2006, told Williams she had killed the baby in the microwave and other inmates that she hadn't meant to do it.
Rion said Arnold, who has three sons, loved having a daughter and quit college and her job so she could stay home and take care of her. Rion said that Arnold's boyfriend was the father of the child, and that it couldn't have been anyone else.
This is ing sickening
I hate hearing like this. Some people should not be parents.
I remember hearing about this story awhile back. How ed up in the head to you have to be. This doesn't even deserve a trial. Take her out back, and shoot her.
I can't disagree with you more she needs to given Cancer so she can die a slow painful death.
I stopped reading after the 2nd paragraph. That is not right. Imagine how how bad it would feel to be cooked alive.
Wow. Here I was thinking that the woman in Houston who left six kids in the care of a 15 year old with practically no food in the house to go to Nigeria to marry a man she met on the internet was a lock to win this one. What a ing nightmare.
Agreed. Just because you can have kids doesn't necessarily mean you should.
Some people don't deserve to be alive, in a million years I never would've thought somebody can do that to a child.....sickening
Yeah, thats ed up. I didn't even want to get past the second paragraph.
This lady just won the "Automatic Death Sentence" Award. If the law system would allow for a grizzly execution, she'd have my vote.
I put my cat in the microwave one time... but I didn't turn the damn thing on.
maybe they can make a microwave big enough to stick that sick in.
That's depressing. It puts things in perspective though. Losing a basketball game, especially in the regular season, is nothing to cry over. I stopped reading after the first few sentences. "She fit right in" WTF??? yeah some people should not be parents, but how would you control something like that. It is almost impossible, unfortunately.
True. It's almost comical the things we consider 'painful' in our day-to-day lives. I'd probably compare the pain of this death to something much more excruciating...like going out 4-0 in the second round. It certainly is a lot worse than a regular season loss.
Excellent!
i mean ing seriously... jesus christ something is seriously ed up when you even think about putting your baby in a microwave. i agree with the poster that said she deserves a slow, painful death. ing pathetic.
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