Death penalty sought in baby's microwave death
Submitted by anthony on Fri, 2006-12-08 02:09
Story here. Excerpt:
"A woman suspected of killing her month-old daughter by putting her in a microwave oven was indicted on a charge of aggravated murder Thursday, and the prosecutor said he would seek the death penalty."
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She's just disturbed and needs counseling
She's just disturbed and needs counseling like all the other murdering mother's, or so the defense will contend. I say our legal system should hang the murdering mothers.
These are Child Fatalities by Perpetrator Relationship 2004
These are Child Fatalities by Perpetrator Relationship 2003
Our gender feminist government changed from Fatalities in 2003 to Victims in 2004 for all the dead child victims. What a corrupt, evil, sexist, hateful government aginst men Amerika is becoming more and more everyday - doing everything it can to vilify males and cover up for violent women.
I don't think the defence is going that route here
Defense attorney Jon Paul Rion said Arnold had nothing to do with her child's death. He said Arnold and the child's father had left Paris with a baby sitter the night before she found the baby unconscious.
Sounds to me like they are going to insinuate that the babysitter did it.
There are some missing details in that story but the defense is not obligated to lay their cards on th table before the trail so they may well have something to substantiate their claims.
I am still not sure about this case. I don't know that she did it either, and I do not know if the baby was truly killed by a microwave oven.
Why?
Because microwave ovens do not cook from the inside out, anyone who has ever used one should be aware of this. They cook from the outside in just like every other method of cooking used in our kitchens. There is no way the baby would have no outwardly visible burns if cooked in a microwave. Don't believe me? Try is on a non-frozen raw chicken even for just a few seconds. The flesh of the chicken and the surface of the meat will be cooked but the insides will not. It would be fun being her defense lawyer. I'd cook chicken for the whole court room!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven#Description
Her defense lawyer should read up on microwave ovens, and bring hers with him to the trial and perform some demonstrations.
To know what really caused the death of the baby one would need to know exactly where the internal burns were (if there really were any and the coroner in not a completely incompetent and mistook, decomposition or scarring from trauma or something else for burn marks). Some forms of acid can rupture the stomach lining and cause burning to the organs.
I'm not saying she is 100% innocent here. After all, she claims to have not noticed the baby was dead until the next day which strikes me as odd. I am just not buying the microwave oven theory because it does not hold water the way they are describing it.
Warm live child vs. frozen raw chicken, microwaving of
Microwave ovens do not cook from inside-out per se; but as opposed to conventional ovens, they do not rely on ordinary thermal conduction to heat food. Instead, the water molecules in the food are excited by radio waves, creating heat due to friction.
In the case of the child, the excitation and resultant heating would have been relatively uniform throughout, unless the child was either frozen solid or completely dehydrated prior to placement in the microwave; in which case he would have already been dead.
Net result: the absence of external burn marks IS consistent with microwave heating.
--axo