A mother has been sentenced to life in prison after
microwaving her baby to death.
Ka Yang, 34, was convicted of first-degree murder and
assault after putting one-month-old Mirabelle
Thao-Lo in the appliance for up
to five minutes in 2011.
Prosecutors said the child had fatal thermal injuries that
would have been severely painful to endure. The radiation would have penetrated
her organs.
Investigators found the infant’s pacifier in the microwave
at their home in Sacramento, California.
Yang’s attorney said her client had an epileptic seizure and
didn’t know what she was doing but paramedics said she wasn’t disoriented when
they arrived.
She told investigators she blacked out and awoke to find the
baby injured next to a space heater.
Yang has three other children.
A California judge imposed the 26-years-to-life sentence
yesterday.
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