DAYTON, Ohio, Sept. 8, 2008

Mom Who Microwaved Baby Gets Life

Ohio Woman Spared Death Penalty In Murder Of One-Month-Old Daughter

  • Twenty-eight-year-old China Arnold chose not to be in the courtroom for her sentencing.

    Twenty-eight-year-old China Arnold chose not to be in the courtroom for her sentencing.  (AP Photo/Al Behrman/file)

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(AP)  A woman in Dayton, Ohio, has been sentenced to life in prison without a chance of parole for killing her baby daughter in a microwave oven.

Twenty-eight-year-old China Arnold chose not to be in the courtroom for Monday's sentencing.

Arnold was convicted of aggravated murder in the 2005 death of month-old daughter Paris Talley.

She was spared the death penalty because jurors could not reach a consensus on the punishment.

It was Arnold's second trial; the first ended in a mistrial when new witnesses surfaced.

Defense attorney Jon Paul Rion has asked for a third trial, saying a former cellmate who said Arnold confessed has now changed her story.

The defense had argued that Arnold was drunk when the offense occurred and had no motive, while prosecutors had called the crime "heinous" as they argued for the death penalty.

During the trial, an 8-year-old boy said he saw another boy walk into the kitchen of a nearby apartment with the baby, heard the microwave go on and then later saw the burned baby in the microwave.

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by maddsthatte1 September 10, 2008 10:03 PM EDT
I think they should hook her up to 50000 volts and fry her *** and show her how it feels. One less freako in the world!
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by petro49l September 10, 2008 11:15 AM EDT
China Arnold should consider the help of a surgeon. A modified frontal lobotomy is a very therapeutic treatment for her paranoid schizophrenia. The Judge in this case would grant clemency if the doctor performed the procedure. The State Prison must approve this move.
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by livewire190 September 10, 2008 4:14 AM EDT
may god have mercy on her and pray for da baby
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by truthislife1 September 10, 2008 2:15 AM EDT
Life in prison for her, but a job for the guy who sucks out the brains.
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by mo005 September 10, 2008 1:12 AM EDT
Screw life in prison, Stick this B in a micro-wave. EYE FOR AN EYE. Its says so in the bible doesn''t it. Or as we say it now days, What comes around goes around. Now we have to wipe her butt till she dies in sing sing, Bull ***.
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by wineberry September 10, 2008 12:34 AM EDT
I could not live knowing I had done something as horrible as this to another living being. I also hope there is no such as reincarnation, for we don''t get to pick and chose who we want to be born to and I''d hate to be born to some weirdo such as this woman.
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by animeforlife September 10, 2008 12:16 AM EDT
if people like that are going to kill their children out of rage maybe they should get their tubes tied so they wont hurt any more of their own kids
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by gaye5 September 9, 2008 11:27 PM EDT
I seem to remember that this has happened a few times in the world now... are they now going to out law microwaves because of the abuse to children, just as they did when a small minority said that a smack was abuse..
I am joking of course..but outlawing a jolly good smack was also rediculious...and we now reap the consequences of that law..
It is no joking matter, people are hurting their animals and children with microwaves.. Why the hang didnt she leave it on someones door step instead of killing it..
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by perm3800 September 9, 2008 8:30 PM EDT
Since I first read this, I didn''t believe it. She was so drunk she was almost unconcious but she managed to carry her baby to someone else''s apartment and microwave it? I really think they need to take a serious look at this other boy. If he did do, that community will be in a world of hurt when he does something even more graphic later. He had a history of microwaving living things. I do think this woman is a serious mess and needs inhouse psychiatric care and to dry out but I am not convinced she did it. Guilty of criminal negligene for getting so drunk she didn''t notice someone carrying her baby out of the apartment, yes.
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by inventagod2 September 9, 2008 8:29 PM EDT

''Some humans ain''t human...''
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by cbs_tom September 9, 2008 7:56 PM EDT
And some of you people want to BAN ABORTION??? You need to be ashamed of yourself.
Posted by TheVicar1 at 03:08 PM : Sep 09, 2008
So kill the baby before the mother can?
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by libsluv2spit September 9, 2008 7:33 PM EDT
In the 1930''''s the justice system would have had a murderer like this on the gallows within 90 days of arrest. Arrest, trial, execution and no decade long appeals. Society was all the better for it.

Posted by presjfk at 03:04 PM : Sep 09, 2008
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TILL THE 60''S when the liberal movement was born..since them murderers pretty much makes a joke out of our justice system on a daily basis..

life in prisonment..she pretty much microwaves society everytime they allocate money to support this piece of human dung
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by libsluv2spit September 9, 2008 7:29 PM EDT
She has never had a job in her life, gets abused by a different boyfriend every other month, gets drunk, passes out, lives on welfare roles and fights constantly with the family and bedmates...and puts babies in ovens and turns them on...

And some of you people want to BAN ABORTION??? You need to be ashamed of yourself.

Posted by TheVicar1 at 03:08 PM : Sep 09, 2008
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THE BAby is a by-product of an obvious reckless liberal lifestyle..is she would had been a little more responsible.if she would had went to school like she suppose to..if she made the right decisions instead of one thoughtless decision after another..then SHE WOULD NOT BE IN A POSITION THAT SHE WOULD HAVE A BABY TO MICROWAVE.

this lifestyle is PROMOTED BY THE LIBERAL MEDIA..supported BY THE LIBERAL ELITE...and FOLLOWED TO THE LETTER by the liberal masses..

since you guys are for abortion why not take it a step further than that..HOW ABOUT CASTRATE THE BIT*CH???
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by shanev137 September 9, 2008 6:45 PM EDT
In the 1930''''s the justice system would have had a murderer like this on the gallows within 90 days of arrest. Arrest, trial, execution and no decade long appeals. Society was all the better for it.

Posted by presjfk at 03:04 PM : Sep 09, 2008


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Never for a woman though.

Women very rarely ever get the DP.

But any man in this situation would have fried in the electric chair 10 times over.
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by thevicar1 September 9, 2008 6:35 PM EDT
Look at the Caylee Anthony case. What kind of scumbag that attorney has to be to be defending such a callous woman ------------------------------------------------------ Posted by proisrael


And the justice system should only allow a defendant the right to an attorney if that defendant is warm-hearted and smiles enough?
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by thevicar1 September 9, 2008 6:08 PM EDT
She has never had a job in her life, gets abused by a different boyfriend every other month, gets drunk, passes out, lives on welfare roles and fights constantly with the family and bedmates...and puts babies in ovens and turns them on...

And some of you people want to BAN ABORTION??? You need to be ashamed of yourself.
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by presjfk September 9, 2008 6:04 PM EDT
In the 1930''s the justice system would have had a murderer like this on the gallows within 90 days of arrest. Arrest, trial, execution and no decade long appeals. Society was all the better for it.
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by presjfk September 9, 2008 6:01 PM EDT
I really believe she just got confused in her drunken state and thought she was putting a bottle in the microwave. I would have used that as my defense. Posted by proisrael

You should be a lawyer. No conscience. There is no defense for actions such as this...
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by presjfk September 9, 2008 5:59 PM EDT
I am not easily shocked but this story did...
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by jamesetling September 9, 2008 5:19 PM EDT
Say goodbye to the HoBich.
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