US mom charged with killing baby in microwave
June 23rd, 2011 - 1:30 am ICT by IANSLos Angeles, June 22 (IANS) A US woman has been arrested on suspicion of killing her six-week-old baby by putting her in a microwave oven, Xinhua reported Wednesday.
Ka Yang, 29, was taken into custody Tuesday at her home in Sacramento, California, it said quoting the Los Angeles Times.
Officials said they were still trying to understand key events that led to what they described as a horrific crime.
“We don’t know what motivated her to do the crime,” Sgt. Norm Leong of the Sacramento Police Department told the paper. “We don’t really know what led up to it.”
The mother has been charged with homicide.
“This was definitely unique,” Leong said. “Detectives realized that they would have to look beyond what they normally do and found experts who said the injuries appeared to be from a microwave.”
The “thermal injuries”, police said, were consistent with those documented in cases from Dayton, Ohio; New Kent County, Virginia, and Galveston, Texas. Detectives researched those cases and awaited the findings of the Sacramento County coroner’s office.
“Based on that research and the autopsy results, detectives believe the injuries occurred as a result of the child being burned in a microwave oven,” the department said in a statement.
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