She will have good company in prison, hopefully, right next to the woman who drowned her newborn infant in a toilet within minutes of him being born. 25-life sentence.
I love my job, but sometimes it is very hard to do.
This shouldn’t be taken the wrong way, but … why a microwave? I mean, if you’re so fucked up that you’ve decided to kill your 6 week old baby, surely there are less horrific ways to do it - that is, a way that would spring to mind a shit-load lot quicker than zapping on high for 3:00 minutes.
You have to go through a creative thinking process to come up with an Amana Radar Range as a murder weapon.
I don’t know; it’s pretty fascinating to observe how things react when you apply high-intensity electromagnetic waves to them. It’s the sort of curiosity that readily become dementia when you become curious how a 6-week-old baby reacts. The baby’s death was probably just a juicy bonus for a struggling parent.
There are a lot of ads surrounding the article on The Sacramento Bee’s website (linked in the OP). Sadly, none of them advertise microwave ovens for cheap at Walmart.
I wonder if she’ll be examined by a psychiatrist? Frontal-lobe brain damage and disorders (tumors, etc.) can have drastic impacts on behavior, inhibition (or lack thereof) and personality. People who do these horrible, unspeakable, unthinkable acts sometimes may have brain functions that are literally out of their control.
If there’s anything I learned from the movie Kick-Ass, it’s that being microwaved is the most awesome way to die. As long as you’re not the one inside it, of course.