A California woman has been
found guilty of murdering her two-month-old daughter, who was killed after she
was placed in a microwave for as long as five minutes.
Ka Yang, 34, has been
convicted of first-degree murder and assault on a child in the death of her
daughter Mirabelle Thao-Lo in their Sacramento home on March 17, 2011.
Jurors rejected Yang's
argument that she had been in the middle of an epileptic seizure when she
placed her daughter in the microwave.
But prosecutors argued that
Yang had lied to investigators about Mirabelle's death before they discovered a
pacifier inside the microwave, according to The Sacramento Bee.
Yang had at first told both
family members and later detectives that she had been holding her daughter when
she lost consciousness while working at the computer.
The married mother-of-four
said she woke up on the ground and found an injured Mirabelle next to a space
heater nearby, according to an affidavit.
When detectives pointed out
inconsistencies in her story, Yang later acknowledged she lied and said she
might have a split personality, the affidavit said.
Mirabelle was found with burns
covering 60 percent of her body, including radiation burns on her internal
organs.
Prosecutors said she was in
the microwave between two and a half to five minutes.
Investigators at the scene
discovered she was burned from head-to-toe but her pajamas and hair were not
signed, the affidavit states.
Reference: dailymail
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