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Date: 08/09/2008 10:38PM
Life in prison for mum in microwave-baby case
SMH, September 9, 2008 - 6:18AM
A mother who burned her baby daughter to death in a microwave oven was sentenced to life in prison without the chance for parole.
China Arnold, 28, opted not to be in the Ohio courtroom when Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Mary Wiseman announced her decision.
The US judge rejected a plea by Arnold's defense lawyers for a minimum sentence of life in prison with the chance of parole after 25 years.
A jury last week spared Arnold the death penalty when it couldn't reach a consensus.
Arnold was convicted on August 29 of aggravated murder in the death of month-old Paris Talley.
Prosecutors said Arnold intentionally put her baby in the microwave oven after a fight with her boyfriend.
The couple had argued over whether the boyfriend was the biological father.
It was Arnold's second trial. The first ended in a mistrial when new witnesses surfaced.
Defense lawyer Jon Paul Rion has asked for a third trial, saying a former cellmate who said Arnold confessed has now changed her story.
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