Calif. mom gets life term in daughter’s microwave death
SACRAMENTO, Calif. » A 34-year-old California mother has been sentenced to life in prison in the microwave oven death of her 1-month-old daughter.
A Sacramento County Superior Court judge imposed the 26-years-to-life sentence today on Ka Yang.
She was convicted of first-degree murder and assault for putting Mirabelle Thao-Lo in the microwave for up to five minutes in 2011. Prosecutors say the child had fatal thermal injuries.
Investigators found the infant’s pacifier in the microwave at their Sacramento-area home.
Yang’s attorney says her client had an epileptic seizure and didn’t know what she was doing.
She has a history of seizures, but paramedics say she wasn’t disoriented when they arrived.
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She told investigators she blacked out and awoke to find the baby injured next to a space heater.
Yang has three other children.
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An urban legend sadly comes true. Justice is served but certainly with no joy.
Sad! This child had no chance. Why do couples have children when either or both partners have genetic problems that they will visit upon their children?
And where are you going to draw the line with this self-sterilization to improve the gene pool? Diabetes? ADHD? Shortness? Baldness? Does your family have a history of cancer?