Another Horrifying Headline
evawhite on September 8th, 2008
If you recall I had done a post about horrifying headlines not too long ago, and I came across one more headline that also completely horrified me. Honor killings for falling in love with the wrong person, a woman beating up her quads, serial killings by psychos are of course truly horrifying, but for some reason, this one really turned my stomach:
A woman killed her baby by putting it in a microwave oven! This is so unthinkable that my first reaction to it was disbelief. But it turns out that one China Arnold got so drunk that she did not know what she was doing and put her one month old baby girl in the microwave oven. She took the child to the hospital when she found that the baby was unconscious. Investigators and medical practitioners found the child’s condition very puzzling and could not at first figure out what it was that caused the child’s internal burns when the outside skin was unmarked and there was an absence of external burn marks. When the mother was told all of this she was shocked because she had no recollection of having done this, having been so inebriated!
Apparently this is not the first time that this has happened. In a similar story, in the year 2000, a Virginia woman was sentenced to five years in prison for killing her month-old son in a microwave oven. Elizabeth Renee Otte also said that she could not remember cramming her son in the microwave and turning on the appliance in 1999. She suffered from epilepsy and that her seizures were followed by blackouts, this being the supposed reason for her actions.
In yet another episode involving a microwave and an infant, a Texas man put his 2 month old daughter Ana Marie Mauldin in the microwave because he was ‘under stress’. Thankfully this did not result in the child’s death but the mother of the child had the most facile excuse of all for the event: she blamed the devil for what happened, saying Satan compelled her husband to put the baby in the microwave! This child suffered burns that were treated with skin grafts and she was released from hospital after some days.
I think that there is no fate in the world worse than losing your own child, so what point does a person have to reach to attempt to kill his or her own flesh and blood? I really cannot fathom this.
September 9th, 2008 at 2:52
what…?
i think the whole world is going more crazy..
September 9th, 2008 at 2:52
That’s a very sad story. Reading this post make me feel that some people don’t deserve to be parent. You can’t be dead drunk when you have a baby that need your attention..
September 9th, 2008 at 2:52
torasham : Actually the world is going more and more crazy….I don’t know where we are headed.
KiwiPulse : I totally agree with you, such people have no rights to become parents.
September 9th, 2008 at 2:52
we’re getting some horrible headlines in the UK today, some family are in court over breaking a 17month old babies back and other horrid things. the world can be a sick sick place
September 13th, 2008 at 2:52
dang, that’s sad, people are going crazy these days.