Mother Microwaves Daughter, Then Frames Her Nephew

who killed her baby in a microwave oven purposely killed her 28 day old daughter paris talley cooking her baby to death in a microwave some call china arnold the microwave mom but family members are now criticizing the court saying she didn’t get a fair trial what you have is you have a defendant with no mental problems and you have a defendant with no excuses she means so much we’ve become known for exposing crimes against children and the failings of cps with regards to keeping them safe but what about the cases where cps
hadn’t been involved prior are there things family members could have done to prevent tragedies from happening today we’re presenting you with a horrific case with a very unlikely weapon of choice something i’m sure you too have in your own home on august 30th 2005 chyna arnold and terrell talley arrived at children’s medical center at 7 15 in the morning with their 28-day old infant paris tally the baby had a temperature of 95 degrees and had no pulse respiration or blood pressure when she arrived at the hospital
after trying to resuscitate paris for about 15 minutes emergency personnel pronounced her dead doctors are mystified and puzzled by the baby’s injuries the baby had burns but they were not like scalding or liquid burns that you normally see during the attempts to revive paris the parents were in the room the father was upset and crying and arnold shouted that her baby was not burned that her skin was just peeling off another unusual factor was that paris was dressed in a clean nightgown however based on her injuries
the garment should have contained seepage and skin when arnold was asked at the hospital about what had happened she said that she had arrived at home at two in the morning and had tried to feed paris but paris would not drink paris felt warm to the touch so arnold placed her in a bassinet and put a fan on her when arnold got up in the morning paris was not acting right so she brought the baby to the hospital after getting her other children ready for school placing them on the bus and calling tally both arnold and tally were taken to the
police station from the hospital contrary to her earlier statement arnold said during her police interview that she arrived home at 9 30 or 10 pm that evening and had been sleeping in the living room with paris on her chest when paris is crying woke her around 2 30 that morning she heated a bottle in the microwave and fed her after changing the baby’s diaper she laid down on the couch and put paris on her chest and went back to sleep arnold stated that when she woke up in the morning tally was on the couch beside
her and she did not know where paris was but thought tally had put her in the bassinet which was upstairs tally told the police that he arrived home between three and four that morning and laid down on a small couch after sleeping for a bit tally moved to a large couch where arnold was sleeping when he woke up in the morning he found the baby dead face down on a large couch in the corner in the meantime the police had received consent to search the apartment where arnold and tally had lived with baby paris and arnold’s other three children
prior to the search the police knew that paris had been burned but they did not know the cause of the burns during the search detectives learned from the coroner that the burns had been caused by some sort of thermal injury nonetheless the burns had not been caused by anything with which the police were familiar the burns were clearly defined and some areas the extent of the burn was severe others were spared entirely however for example paris full back had not been burnt as a result when detectives went back to the scene of the
search they looked for a cookie tin heating pad or something that was rectangular that could have caused the burns on her body the police saw the microwave oven on the counter but did not suspect that it had been involved the police did find a plastic tub upstairs with cloudy water that looked like sediment this material was taken from the house otherwise the search of the house was essentially negative police also talked to people in the neighborhood and learned that tally’s sister lee anda had watched arnold’s children the night
before paris had died when approached regarding this information arnold acknowledged that she and tally had gone out for a couple of hours starting around 7pm after arriving back home arnold stayed outside for a bit and then came into the house between 9 30 and 10. arnold stated that leonda was there when she came home after coming home arnold fed paris a bottle she said paris felt hot and so she laid her down arnold then repeated the story she had already given about waking up at 2 30 in the morning and later going to the hospital by the time
of arnold’s third interview on august 30th 2005 the police knew that arnold had been seen outside on her porch at 4 am and that she had been arguing with tyrell talley earlier in the evening and that a plastic tub of water had been found at that point arnold said that she had bathed paris at noon it had not emptied the water arnold first said that she and tally had been arguing about her driving but later admitted that they were arguing about paris paternity arnold also initially denied being on the porch at four in the morning but eventually
admitted it arnold said she was waiting for tally to come home arnold then told the police that she was waiting because tally had taken paris with him earlier when arnold was asked why she had not said anything about that earlier she stated that she loved tally and was protecting him she did not respond when police asked her about tally having handed her a burn baby when he returned tally was allowed to leave the police station that day and arnold was arrested for child endangering because she was apparently the only one home at the time
of the baby’s injury at that time the coroner still had no idea how the baby’s death had been caused other than that it was due to an elevated temperature caused by thermal injuries arnold was released from jail a few days later in early 2006 the coroner became aware of children that had been allegedly injured in microwave ovens and of microwave experiments that had been done on pigs they’re about the same size as a small baby the coroner was alerted to a case in virginia in which an infant had been found deceased inside of a microwave
upon investigation the coroner discovered that the burns in the two cases were very similar subsequently on may 18 2006 the police returned to 415 hall avenue where arnold and her family had been living at the time of paris death although the apartment had been abandoned the microwave oven was still there after testing was conducted an examiner from the miami valley crime lab found a partial dna profile from the ceiling of the microwave oven that matched paris arnold was excluded as a source of the dna the coroner also tested the microwave
oven and concluded that a baby of paris size could fit in it in addition the coroner concluded that burn patterns on paris were consistent with the heating element in the oven which was located on the dome or roof of the inside part of the oven according to the coroner paris was placed on her back and was faced up towards the heating element the coroner concluded that paris died no earlier than 1am and not significantly later than a.m on august 30th 2005.
on november 27 2006 arnold was arrested for the aggravated murder of paris she was then indicted in december 2006 for aggravated murder together with a specification that she had purposefully caused the death of another who was under the age of 13 at the time of the offense and was the principal offender in the commission of the offense a jury trial was conducted during january and february of 2008 but the trial court granted a mistrial during the trial based on the surprise discovery of alleged exculpatory evidence the newly
discovered evidence was based on allegations that arnold’s nephew had placed the baby in the microwave oven and had turned it on the case was retried in august of 2008 and the defense presented testimony from an eight-year-old boy who stated that he saw arnold’s nephew put the baby in the microwave oven and turn it on the trial court precluded the defense from calling two additional witnesses who would testify that arnold’s nephew had told them that he placed the baby in the microwave at the conclusion of the
evidence the jury found arnold guilty but deadlocked during the sentencing phase the trial court then sentenced arnold to life in prison without the possibility of parole in addition the court denied arnold’s motion for a new trial the court then reversed arnold’s conviction on november of 2010 based on prosecutorial misconduct and error and excluding the testimony of a witness on remand the case was tried for a third time in april in may of 2011.
at trial the state presented the following evidence on the evening of august 29 2005 tyrell tally’s sister leonda offered to babysit paris while tally and arnold went out tally and arnold left at about 6 30 or 7 pm purchased a bottle of bacardi 151 and went to a park where they sat and drank almost the entire bottle while at the park they argued about whether paris was tally’s baby because tally had heard that arnold had been cheating on him after about two hours they drove home arnold was intoxicated driving erratically and going way beyond the
speed limit when they arrived back home between 9 and 10 pm they got into a physical altercation in the parking lot during which according to tally arnold bit his lip and he slapped her in the face witnesses described arnold as very intoxicated and barely able to walk and talk after the aforementioned altercation tally’s sister leonda took her children home and put them to bed in the meantime tally went with a next-door neighbor named jason strouffe to a nearby apartment called the bootleg to buy some beer tally and stroof then came
back and drank the beer on stroof’s porch when leonda came back outside she saw arnold attempting to drive away in the car leonta told arnold that she was too drunk to drive and took arnold to get cigarettes on the way back arnold asked leonta to stop the car because she thought she was going to vomit they returned about 40 minutes later after they left and arnold went into her own house subsequently tally went into an apartment called the spot where he and another individual normally sold drugs tally stayed at the spot until 5 30 or 6
in the morning when he returned to arnold’s apartment the state presented evidence that paris was alive and fine at various intervals during the time that leonda baby sat and after they came home from the cigarette run both lyanda and a woman named marcelina perry testified that lyanna checked on paris and china at approximately 11 45 that evening at tally’s request according to leonda and perry arnold was asleep on the couch and the baby was in a car seat next to another couch after checking on paris leonda locked the
house and took the house keys to tally at the spot according to leonda paris was sleeping and she did not see any injuries nothing was wrong with paris at the time which was around midnight as was indicated arnold told the police that she last saw paris alive around 2 30 in the morning when paris woke her again arnold claimed that she had fed paris had changed the baby’s diaper and had gone back to sleep at trial the state presented evidence that the time of death was between 1 and 3 15 in the morning and that arnold was seen outside
on her porch at around four in the morning as well as that paris dna had been found in the microwave oven and that paris dna was the source of a translucent material or suspected skin found in the plastic tub in addition the state presented evidence from two women who were housed with arnold in jail during an altercation in which one of the inmates called arnold a baby killer arnold stated quote i didn’t mean to do it end quote the defense challenged the timelines presented and also presented evidence establishing that tally was in
fact paris father and that he was a jealous and violent individual after hearing the evidence the jury convicted arnold on the aggravated murder charge following the trial the court allowed the defense and state to offer testimony and exhibits regarding the alleged third-party guilt of arnold’s nephew subsequently the jury unanimously recommended that arnold be sentenced to life in prison without parole where she still remains to this day so arnold’s nephew you know they went and threatened him they probably brought
him to the spot and harassed him like can you imagine taking your own nephew and being like hey you’re going to admit to this because you’re going to get off scot-free for it like just how disgusting and then roping some other eight-year-old into it as well you had to say oh yeah i saw it too like they should have been charged for that on top of it both of them now you might be thinking killing a baby with a microwave has to be rare this must be the only case where a mother would do this to a child well you’d be surprised
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