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" Ohio mom held in microwave murder of baby "

Coroner links '05 death to thermal injury

BY MICHELLE CARUSO
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

An Ohio mom is suspected of murdering her baby by placing the infant in the microwave, police said yesterday.
China Arnold, 26, a Dayton mother of four, brought her dead 1-month-old daughter to a hospital a year ago. The child, who had suffered mysterious burns, died of hyperthermia - high body temperature - due to thermal injury, a coroner ruled.

"We have reason to believe, and scientific evidence to support, that a microwave oven might be involved in the death of this child," Ken Betz, director of the Montgomery County coroner's office, said yesterday.

Arnold is jailed in lieu of $1 million bail in connection with the Aug. 30, 2005, death of tiny Paris Talley, her youngest child.

Arnold, who has three sons, ages 9, 7 and 4, was arrested Monday on a warrant for a charge of aggravated murder. The case is expected to go before a grand jury next month before she can be formally charged, police said.

"I haven't seen a case like this before. It's very rare. There's no way to put words to how this can happen. It's definitely a tragedy," Dayton Police Sgt. Gary White told the Daily News.

"The baby's body had obvious burns. It's difficult to describe," said White. Arnold provided "little or no information" about how the burns occurred when she brought the dead baby to Dayton Children's Hospital, White said.

Determined investigators, including the coroner's crew who examined the infant's organs, eventually cracked the case. The microwave was seized and examined by a CSI team, White said.

The baby's father, Terrell Talley, was "ruled out" and is not a suspect in the case, White said.

But Arnold's lawyer says she's innocent.

"China Arnold is a grieving mother, mourning the loss of her child. She's in shock," attorney Jon Paul Rion said yesterday.

"When she was told that a microwave may have been used, she was in complete disbelief that anyone could do such a thing to a child or any living thing," Rion said.

The case is believed to be only the second in the nation where a household microwave was used to kill a child, investigators said. In 2000, a 20-year-old Virginia mother was convicted of killing her 5-week-old son in this manner.
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