Black Mom Kills Baby in Microwave
by Jeff Davis
I occasionally get e-mails wondering why I don’t do more black and immigrant crime columns. Part of the reason is that the blundering insanity of the neocons is so fascinating–it’s like watching a train wreck in slow motion, except we’re all in the train–but another reason is that, as awful as this is for me to admit, over the years the constant flow of black criminality in the news seldom shocks me anymore. You can get overloaded with horror, and most Americans have come to accept the possibility of being raped or murdered or robbed or assaulted by our swarthy fellow citizens just as traffic accidents or cancer randomly strikes people. But every now and then, a black crime story comes along that is so horrific that even jaded observers like me sit up and take notice.
NBC News reports that a black mother in Dayton, Ohio murdered her own infant by jamming her in a microwave and turning it on reheat or possibly the popcorn setting. According to the article, “China Arnold, 26, was jailed Monday on a charge of aggravated murder, more than a year after she brought her dead month-old baby to a hospital.” (It took a whole year to figure out the baby was microwaved???) “Bail was set Tuesday at $1 million. ‘We have reason to believe, and we have some forensic evidence that is consistent with our belief, that a microwave oven was used in this death,’ said Ken Betz, director of the Montgomery County coroner’s office. He said the evidence included high-heat internal injuries and the absence of external burn marks on the baby, Paris Talley. ” (This woman apparently named her baby after the glitterati bimbo Paris Hilton, which is adding insult to injury.) (more…)