I heard about a case where an infant was cooked in a microwave?

Question

I know, terrible and gross, but are there any clues as to who did it? Was it the babysitter, wife, husband, someone else?

Answer 1

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/11/28/baby.microwave.ap/index.html

From the story:

Mom charged with baby's microwave death

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- A mother was arrested on suspicion of killing her newborn daughter by microwaving the baby in an oven.

China Arnold, 26, was jailed Monday on a charge of aggravated murder, more than a year after she brought her dead month-old baby to a hospital. Bail was set Tuesday at $1 million.

"We have reason to believe, and we have some forensic evidence that is consistent with our belief, that a microwave oven was used in this death," said Ken Betz, director of the Montgomery County coroner's office.

He said the evidence included high-heat internal injuries and the absence of external burn marks on the baby, Paris Talley.

Arnold was arrested soon after the baby's death in August 2005, then was released while authorities investigated further. Betz said the case was difficult because "there is not a lot of scientific research and data on the effect of microwaves on human beings."

The death was ruled a homicide caused by hyperthermia, or high body temperature. The absence of external burns ruled out an open flame, scalding water or a heating pad as the cause, Betz said.

Arnold's lawyer, Jon Paul Rion, said his client had nothing to do with her child's death and was stunned when investigators told her that a microwave might have been involved. (Watch the mother weep during her court hearing )

"China -- as a mother and a person -- was horrified that such an act could occur," Rion said.

The night before the baby was taken to the hospital, Arnold and the child's father went out for a short time and left Paris with a baby sitter, Rion said. The mother didn't sense anything out of the ordinary until the next morning, when the child was found unconscious, Rion said.

Arnold has three other children.

In 2000, a Virginia woman was sentenced to five years in prison for killing her month-old son in a microwave oven. Elizabeth Renee Otte claimed she had no memory of cramming her son in the microwave and turning on the appliance in 1999.

Experts said that Otte suffered from epilepsy and that her seizures were followed by blackouts.

Answer 2

i in my opinion personal a microwave 1st Baron Verulam cooker and use it a minimum of once a week. this is round with raised ridges that run the width of the platter to allow the grease to empty faraway from the first Baron Verulam even as it cooks. Microwaving doesn't replace the style and the in elementary words vast difference in visual attraction is that the strips of 1st Baron Verulam are flatter after cooking and do not cut back as a lot as they do once you fry them in a skillet. those that are telling you the first Baron Verulam doesn't get crispy in a microwave only are not cooking it lengthy adequate. I frequently microwave 5-6 slices at a time and prepare dinner them for 4- 4 a million/2 minutes.

Answer 3

It's an urban legend. Ever since the idea was floated upon release of the microwave oven, that it "cooked from the inside out" the ghoulish story of the psycho babysitter "cooking" and in some cases "serving" the parents their own cooked child has been told, probably around camp fires and the like.
Feel assured that this person does not exist anywhere but in the minds and nightmares of our own youthful selves....

Answer 4

Which one? There is a mother accused of doing it several years ago and now there is another mother doing it again.

Answer 5

Right now there saying the mother did it and have arrested her, and she is in jail, where she belongs if she did it.

Answer 6

so I guess, psychological evaluations should be mandatory for those who wants their kitchen to be armed with microwave oven?