Thursday July 19, 2007, 5:41 pm
After reading the title, I couldn't believe what I'd just read! how in the world could anyone but a monster do this to their own baby?! This is incredible to put a life in the microwave knowing what would happen. The person had to be so high on drugs to put her newborn in and turn the micro on! How very sad though the baby is much better off where it is today - up with and serving as an angel of God. I hope the mother rots in HELL!

Friday July 20, 2007, 8:41 am
I was looking for this! I just posted a small update on this....I'll put it in here.

(AP) Police testifying at a pretrial hearing for a Dayton, Ohio, woman accused of killing her daughter by microwaving the baby say the mother told officers that she was drunk, but couldn't recall doing anything that caused the child's burns.

China Arnold, 26, is charged with aggravated murder in the Aug. 30, 2005, death of her three and a half week-old daughter, Paris Talley. She has entered a plea of not guilty.

At a pretrial hearing Thursday, detective Michael Galbraith testified that Arnold told him during questioning then: “If I hadn't gotten so drunk, I guess my baby wouldn't have died.”

Questioned by defense attorney Jon Paul Rion, Galbraith acknowledged that Arnold told him she didn't know how the baby suffered the burns, and that she had nothing to do with it that she could recall.

Galbraith said Arnold told him she arrived home in the early morning hours after drinking, fell asleep and was awakened at 2:30 a.m. by the baby's crying. She said she warmed a bottle in the microwave oven on the counter, 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, Galbraith said.

Arnold said she and her three children — ages 7, 6 and 3 — were the only ones in the apartment until her boyfriend arrived several hours later and noticed something was wrong with the baby, Galbraith said.

At the conclusion of the hearing, Judge John Kessler ruled that prosecutors can use some of Arnold's statements at trial. He said he would decide later whether other statements and certain physical evidence would be admitted.

The coroner concluded that the injuries to Arnold's baby could have been caused only by the child being cooked in a microwave oven, according to prosecutor Mathias Heck Jr., who is seeking the death penalty.

Rion has said Arnold took the baby to the hospital after finding her unconscious at home. He said she told hospital officials she did not know what happened to the child.

Galbraith said DNA matching the baby was found in the microwave, but he acknowledged that the DNA evidence doesn't establish who killed the child.

"That microwave was the murder weapon," he said. "The burns themselves were horrendous."

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Sunday July 22, 2007, 3:44 pm
Okay everybody, here we go again, first a baby thrown away in the garbage, and now to read of this case of the baby being burned in the microwave. What is happening to society today? I just do not understand why babies are being so tortured these days, what is going on? How such innocent little lives are being taken from them. Maybe we should all get together and start adopting these babies, as sounds like their chances of survival is nil, they go to Heaven, with nobody caring for them? How nauseous can that be? It just sickens me to hear of babies being hurt in any ay, they did not ask to be born and come into this world. May the little ones be safe in the arms of Jesus!! Thank You

Monday August 13, 2007, 8:17 am
You know, as terrible as it is, I'm pretty sure some of you didn't actually read the article. It seems you only saw 3 words, Mother, Microwave and Baby. There is no proof she actually put the baby in the microwave at this point, and the baby spent time with the sitter. How do you all know the sitter wasnt involved? Were you somehow all magically there? What ever happened to innocent until proven guilty in this country? But no, we all pass judgement on a human based on a few volatile words we see in a headline. As horrible a thing as this is, we need to stay calm and look at the facts, instead of freaking out and condemning someone to death who may not actually be guilty. As the old saying goes, two wrongs don't make a right, and immediately condemning the baby's mother to death will not bring the baby back, and in fact will deprive her other children of thier mother. God forbid any of you ever be in her shoes. Thankfully, God is more merciful than you people.