How can anyone do this?

[Hollie-x]

Just read this and it actually made me feel physically sick.

Microwave baby killer convicted

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

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.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7589247.stm

Although I don't believe in the death penalty I hope she gets a very severe punishment.

[HoneyBee]

I really wish I hadn't read that. That woman (or should it be monster?) should be flogged if she's guilty.

[DaVeyWaVey]

It really makes me want to puke. There is horrific evil in this world.

[Siobhan]

I read this case a while back and she told her partner that she was going to do this if he walked out of the house.. it was to get back at her boyfriend.. can you imagine how sick that is????? killing a baby cause you row with your boyfriend.. I hope she burns in hell :angry::angry::angry:

[Trinity]

I would sincerely hope that the vast majority of people couldn't do something like this.

There must be something seriously wrong with this woman.

[.:SpIcYsPy:.]

Death penalty please!

[Trinity]

I agree that the crime is horrific and that any normal thinking person cannot help but be appalled, horrified and revolted that someone has done such a thing.

The question is why?

Is she severelly postnatally depressed?
Is she mentally ill?
Is she metally subnormal?

Or is she just amoral and 'evil'?

I don't think that the article tells the whole story.

I don't support the death penalty because I couldn't press the buttom myself.

I don't believe that two wrongs make a right, and previous miscarriages of justice and our current system of trial by media mean that justice isn't always done.

There are truely evil people out there, and society needs to be protected from them. This is why life in prison should mean life and not 7 years with time off for good behaviour.

Why is having children seen as a right? Some people shouldn't be allowed to have kids.

[Abbie]

:angry: This is just..............I cant even find the words to describe how cruel and sick this is

[di marco]

i read this a few months ago, i cant believe someone would do this, how you can put your baby in a microwave is beyond me! and just cos youd argued with your boyfriend, its disgusting! :angry:

[JustJodi]

update,,,,,

http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/index/news/local/china_arnold/index.html

[Hollie-x]

I agree that the crime is horrific and that any normal thinking person cannot help but be appalled, horrified and revolted that someone has done such a thing.

The question is why?

Is she severelly postnatally depressed?
Is she mentally ill?
Is she metally subnormal?

Or is she just amoral and 'evil'?

I don't think that the article tells the whole story.

I don't support the death penalty because I couldn't press the buttom myself.

I don't believe that two wrongs make a right, and previous miscarriages of justice and our current system of trial by media mean that justice isn't always done.
There are truely evil people out there, and society needs to be protected from them. This is why life in prison should mean life and not 7 years with time off for good behaviour.

Why is having children seen as a right? Some people shouldn't be allowed to have kids.

Those are two reasons I also don't agree with the death penalty. Also the fact that once that person's dead, that's it. They don't have to live witht the guilt for the rest of their lives, it's an easy way out basically. Fair enough they don't have a life anymore so that is punishment but yano.

[HoneyBee]

I agree that the crime is horrific and that any normal thinking person cannot help but be appalled, horrified and revolted that someone has done such a thing.

The question is why?

Is she severelly postnatally depressed?
Is she mentally ill?
Is she metally subnormal?

Or is she just amoral and 'evil'?

I don't think that the article tells the whole story.

I don't support the death penalty because I couldn't press the buttom myself.

I don't believe that two wrongs make a right, and previous miscarriages of justice and our current system of trial by media mean that justice isn't always done.
There are truely evil people out there, and society needs to be protected from them. This is why life in prison should mean life and not 7 years with time off for good behaviour.

Why is having children seen as a right? Some people shouldn't be allowed to have kids.

Those are two reasons I also don't agree with the death penalty. Also the fact that once that person's dead, that's it. They don't have to live witht the guilt for the rest of their lives, it's an easy way out basically. Fair enough they don't have a life anymore so that is punishment but yano.

No offence, but what makes you think they actually feel guilty, they may and probably do feel nothing and could quite possibly do it again if given the chance.

[Trinity]

There are totally amoral people out there who have no empathy with their fellow humans and feel no sympathy or guilt.

These people should be locked up for life if the commit horrible crimes because innocent people should be protected.

[Hollie-x]

I agree that the crime is horrific and that any normal thinking person cannot help but be appalled, horrified and revolted that someone has done such a thing.

The question is why?

Is she severelly postnatally depressed?
Is she mentally ill?
Is she metally subnormal?

Or is she just amoral and 'evil'?

I don't think that the article tells the whole story.

I don't support the death penalty because I couldn't press the buttom myself.

I don't believe that two wrongs make a right, and previous miscarriages of justice and our current system of trial by media mean that justice isn't always done.
There are truely evil people out there, and society needs to be protected from them. This is why life in prison should mean life and not 7 years with time off for good behaviour.

Why is having children seen as a right? Some people shouldn't be allowed to have kids.

Those are two reasons I also don't agree with the death penalty. Also the fact that once that person's dead, that's it. They don't have to live witht the guilt for the rest of their lives, it's an easy way out basically. Fair enough they don't have a life anymore so that is punishment but yano.

No offence, but what makes you think they actually feel guilty, they may and probably do feel nothing and could quite possibly do it again if given the chance.

True, but in some cases people probably do think about it if you know what I mean. (:

Another reason I think it should be allowed is the fact that it has proven not to be a detterent. After doing research for some homework ages ago it turned out that in some of the states of the US where it is still legal, there are even more murders than in those without it - so it's not really doing anything.
Annnd, there have been criminals in the past, who have been let out of prison after x amount of years after be found not to be guilty, which wouldn't be able to happen if that person had been killed - they can't be brought back to life. Like Barry George, the man who was accused of killing Jill Dando - he was released a couple of months ago after being in prison for 8 years.
But anyways, that just my opinion.

[Siobhan]

I don't believe in death penality.. I think letting the person sit and stew in a cell for years and years that they have to think about what they did that put them there.. also added to your point Hollie.. the Guildford 4 spent over 15 years in prison are were completely innocent.. if they had died, then what??