Larry Knows

This case has Nancy Grace written all over it, but we cannot overlook it here on Crime Rant. We want to apologize for that right off ther bat.

There’s got to be a special place in hell for women who kill their children: most of us are probably on board with that idea. Yet, what if a mother places her baby in a microwave and hits “high” for a few minutes, or at least until the child’s insides burn up? Where, then, does that woman end up? Is hell too mild a punishment?

Jury selection began Monday in China’s trial. She is accused of killing her 1-month-old daughter by burning the child to death in a microwave oven.

But let me tell you, the state’s evidence is shoddy, at best. To be honest, I’m not even sure how or why this woman ended up on trial to begin with (although I have a pretty good idea, which I’ll kepe to myself).

Investigators believe China put her baby, Paris Talley, into a microwave at her home, but China’s attorneys argue she had nothing to do with the crime.

According to CNN, “Coroner’s officials have said the baby suffered high-heat internal injuries and had no external burns. They have ruled out scalding water, open flame or other possible causes of death that could have damaged the skin.”

This is an interesting case. One we need to watch closely. Here you have a woman who claims she had nothing to do with her daughter’s death and was “stunned when investigators told her that a microwave might have been involved.” It was China, after all, who took the baby to the hospital after finding her unconscious.

Last July, police Detective Michael Galbraith testified at a pre-trial hearing that China told him she arrived home during the early morning hours after drinking all night, 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, 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.” China and her children were the only people in the apartment until her boyfriend arrived several hours later and noticed something was wrong with the baby.

IT LOOKS LIKE TIME ONCE AGAIN TO POINT OUT THE NEWS OVERLOOKED BY MILANO'S CRUSADE TO BASH MEN.  MILANO NOW APPEARS TO EITHER BE NOT SLEEPING OR USING AN ALARM CLOCK SO SHE CAN MAN BASH MORE OFTEN THAN THE AVERAGE BABY

Faced with what happened, China told the cop: “If I hadn’t gotten so drunk, I guess my baby wouldn’t have died.”

Now, is that statement a claim of responsibility, or does it sound like a mother (who is certainly not immune to alcohol and other problems) wrapped up in guilt?

Most interesting, Robert Belloto, a staff pharmacist at Good Samaritan Hospital, where China brought the baby after finding her unconscious, testified that “he does not believe it would have been possible for Arnold to place the baby in the microwave because the woman was so intoxicated.”

I’m wondering if the microwave oven was checked. Had it been old and the door not sealed properly, well, it’s possible that microwaves leaked into the atmosphere and killed that child. For a newborn, it doesn’t take much.

Then again, it’s also possible that China put the child into the oven. But something tells me there’s more working here than a murder case.