An infant girl who died in August 2005 of a high body temperature might have been put in a microwave, and her mother has been charged in the death, authorities said Tuesday. China Arnold, 26, was arrested at her home Monday on a charge of aggravated murder, more than a year after she brought her dead month- old baby to a hospital, police said.
"We have reason to believe and scientific evidence to support that a microwave oven might have been involved in the death of this child," said Ken Betz, director of the Montgomery County coroner's office.
At the time, Paris Talley's death was ruled a homicide caused by hyperthermia, or high body temperature, because of burns. Arnold was arrested initially, then released. Betz said the case was difficult because "there is not a lot of scientific research and data on the effect of microwaves on human beings." One would have to extrapolate from the data generated by teen-aged boys with fluffy kittens.
There was a lengthy investigation before prosecutors found enough probable cause to issue another arrest warrant, said Greg Flannagan, a spokesman for the county prosecutor's office.
Arnold's lawyer, Jon Paul Rion, said his client had nothing to do with her child's death and was stunned when investigators told her that a microwave might have been involved. "China _ as a mother and a person _ was horrified that such an act could occur," Rion said.
The night before the baby was taken to the hospital, Arnold and the child's father went out for a short time and left Paris with a baby sitter, Rion said. The mother didn't sense anything out of the ordinary until the next morning, when the child was found unconscious, Rion said. Rion declined to say what the couple told hospital officials at the time. "Anything else we need to know about your son's condition, ma'am?"
"Well doctor, nothing I can think of. By the way, would microwaving him be harmful?"
Arnold, who has three other children, was being held in the Montgomery County jail and plans to plead not guilty, Rion said.
In 2000, a Virginia woman was sentenced to five years in prison for killing her month-old son in a microwave oven. Elizabeth Renee Otte claimed she had no memory of cramming her son in the microwave and turning on the appliance in 1999. Experts said Otte suffered from epilepsy and that her seizures were followed by blackouts. Yeah, blackout... that's the ticket! Total nonsense, of course, the blackouts that follow a seizure don't leave you in a state where you can do such things.
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Paging Jan Harold Brunvand! Time to find my copy of "Curses, Broiled Again".
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A lady in our military housing area microwaved her toy poodle to "dry" it after she gave it a bath. The poodle exploded. I would assume a child would do the same thing if left in the microwave long enough. Raising the body temperature to 140-150 degrees would probably take less than two minutes at full power. I hate to believe anyone would be that stupid, but the case with the poodle proved it happened once.
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An informant who narcotics officers say led them to the house where an elderly woman was killed in a drug raid is accusing the officers of asking him to lie about his role, Atlanta police Chief Richard Pennington said.
...Court officials initially refused to release the affidavits and search warrant even though state law makes such records available immediately... The documents were made public Monday, nearly a week after the incident.
The documents do not suggest that police had been keeping the house under surveillance and provide no rationale for entering it other than the informant's alleged buy earlier in the afternoon. The raid did not produce the cocaine, money, computers and other equipment related to the drug business alleged in the affidavit.
Early on, police said narcotics were found at the house after the shooting, but on Sunday investigators said they had found only a small amount of marijuana, which police don't consider narcotics.
The informant, who said he worked with Atlanta police for four years, also told WAGA-TV that he hadn't been to 933 Neal Street. His identity hidden, he told the TV station that one of the drug officers called him soon after the shooting with instructions.
Quoting the police officers, the informant told Fox 5 News: " 'This is what you need to do. You need to cover our (rear). ... It's all on you man.' "
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FYI, Rodney Balko's blog The Agitator is all over this and similar stories. As a libertarian he's a big GWOT skeptic, but he's made a specialty on innocents killed in "fishy" no-knock and "dynamic entry" searches.
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Sorry, code for the link is hosed. It's www.theagitator.com .
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no-knock where a life is not in immediate danger is ridiculous, and more likely to result in a death of an innocent than anything else. Too many cops watching COPS
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I see a multi-million dollar payout coming. If you live in metro Atlanta, grab your wallets. The problem is, this is becoming daily newsreel. What happens ? Cops on probation. Investigation. Cops exonerated. Cities sued. Multi-millions paid out. Taxpayers suffer. No consequences to cops who did this, the department, or the chief. Innocent people killed. No repercussions to anyone, so repeat as required.
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It was a terrible mistake. Back in the 70's there were a handful of cop killings by radicals. So there was a federal effort to get police to change their tactics from what they had been, to SWAT.
In a nutshell, this meant that police were encouraged to brandish their guns frequently. In retrospect, this has killed hundreds of policemen who get shot with their own weapon, which could have remained safely in their holster.
There are multiple reasons. Brandished guns escalate non-violent situations to violence. Often perps want to wrestle, and an unholstered weapon is recovered by them. Finally, at distances under 15 feet, a gun can sometimes be far less effective than a knife.
Ironically, cops used to have more of a MacGyver attitude towards guns, because if they took their gun from its holster, they had to report it as an "incident".
Many of these modern problems have pushed police to find less-than-lethal weapons, which they prefer to brandishing, for their own safety.
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If a cop is going to punch a hole into someone's house and charge in, he'd better be armored and have his gun drawn, there's no way around that.
The 2 key issues in this case are (1) whether the warrant was justified in the first place and (2) how police/prosecutors/judges consider themselves above the law. "Court officials refused to release"? Have they been charged for this yet?
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish police have told a man dubbed Ireland's dumbest crook to give up his disastrous criminal career before it gets the better of him.
The unnamed man in his 30s has been arrested three times and each heist has brought him closer to the hereafter.
Police took the man into custody and to the hospital at the weekend after he was hit by a lorry while making a getaway from a betting shop robbery, the Irish Sun reported.
He has also been plucked from a chimney where he became stuck while trying to burgle a house, and from the ceiling of a bank where he was pinned by a security device. When they arrived at the bank he was dangling by one leg and stuffing cash into his underpants.
"Go straight before you kill yourself," the Sun quoted Dublin police as having told him.
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He has also been plucked from a chimney where he became stuck while trying to burgle a house, and from the ceiling of a bank where he was pinned by a security device. When they arrived at the bank he was dangling by one leg and stuffing cash into his underpants.
The bank had a rope trap from the cartoons?
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The bank had a rope trap from the cartoons?
My guess was some kind of wire net to prevent entry through ventilation duct (???), but your idea is much more funny!
Try something that doesn't require skills or knowledge. Try running for the US Congress. And with an honest to goodness Irish resume, you'll probably qualify for any seat from Massachusetts.
OTTAWA (Reuters) - A Canadian man who could not figure out how to deal with his girlfriend's feverish 10-month-old daughter put the baby into a freezer to cool her down, a local newspaper reported on Friday. Derrick Hardy faces charges of criminal negligence and assaulting the infant, who was rescued when her mother came home, the Charlottetown Guardian said.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. said the mother found the girl crammed into the freezer alongside ice cubes and hamburger meat. Hardy said he had left the door ajar but the mother said it had been closed when she returned. He told a court in the eastern province of Prince Edward Island on Thursday the child had only been in the freezer for about 40 seconds.
Hardy, 21, who admitted to police that he had no real parenting skills to deal with a sick child, said he had noticed the girl was very hot and put a cool cloth on her face, but this had no effect. He then carried the girl outside into the night air but, frustrated that this also did not work and worried she might drown if placed in a cold bath, he put the baby into the kitchen freezer. She was wearing only an undershirt.
A local doctor said the mother had described her baby as "crying, sobbing and terrified." The child spent several days in hospital to recover from first- and second-degree freezer burns on her head and torso.
Hardy has pleaded not guilty to the charges. The baby's grandmother now has custody of the girl.
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Hardy, 21, who admitted to police that he had no real parenting skills to deal with a sick child, said he had noticed the girl was very hot and put a cool cloth on her face, but this had no effect.
I don't have any real parenting skills either, but i know not to stick a baby in the freezer....
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Stupid idiot. You don't put babies in the freezer, you put MONEY in the freezer.
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A Canadian man who could not figure out how to deal with his girlfriend's feverish 10-month-old daughter put the baby into a freezer to cool her down,
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Note: The wipes are also good for cleaning the inside of the hazmat suit when you try to yak into the trash can if the clothespin falls off your nose.
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Just dismal ignorance. Crocs have been around for 200M years during which time temps have been both warner and colder than today. We still have crocs. Ergo!
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Crocodile populations have dwindled dramatically in Botswana, due to overexploitation by hide hunters and conflicts with nearby communities. Methinks Miss Henny Penny is worried about the wrong thing.
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Polar bears are adjusting to global warming, by making behavioral changes. Necessity is the mother of invention, for both humans and animals.
However, humans will have to intervene where predatory patterns change to the point where instinction of new prey is possible.. I have always maintained that the greatest ecologists are pro-active hunters.
FIJI'S military yesterday warned Australia, Britain and the US not to interfere in its plans to "clean up" the Fijian Government.
The warning came after a visit by top diplomats from the three countries to Suva's main barracks marred attempts by New Zealand to broker 11th-hour talks to head off a possible coup.
The diplomatic manoeuvring yesterday also included a bid by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to threaten the Fijian military with expulsion from peacekeeping operations - a source of national pride and valuable foreign currency for the nation, which has nearly a quarter of a million people living in poverty.
The attempt by the top Australian, US and British diplomats in Suva to hold talks with senior military commanders in the absence of military chief Frank Bainimarama resulted in an angry rebuke from the Fijian military - but may have exposed a potential rift in their leadership.
Royal Fiji Military Force spokesman Major Neumi Leweni released a statement late yesterday saying that the "inappropriate" visit by diplomatic heads of the three missions, including Australian high commissioner Jennifer Rawson, could incite the situation and was viewed as an invasion.
Major Leweni revealed that the military call-up of 3000 reservists at the weekend was not only to aid Commodore Bainimarama's plans for the Government but also to prepare for "any" foreign intervention that might be recommended by a meeting of Pacific Islands Forum foreign ministers in Sydney on Friday.
"We have indicated in the past that the RFMF will strongly oppose any foreign intervention and this recall is an indication of how serious the institution is, and will prevent any such attempt," Major Leweni said.
However, the meeting appears to have exposed divisions in the military leadership in Fiji, with the diplomats reporting that the second and third in command of the Fijian forces had disagreed with their commander's views about the military's role in Fiji.
The diplomats sought and received assurances from deputy Fijian military commander Captain Esali Teleni and Land Force commander Colonel Pita Driti that they agreed with the three countries' views about the subordinate role of the military in a democracy.
Fijian Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase raised the stakes for Fijian forces yesterday when he revealed that Mr Annan had telephoned him and said he would warn Commodore Bainimarama that if the military took control, they would be forced to withdraw from peacekeeping operations.
In Wellington today, New Zealand's Foreign Minister Winston Peters will broker talks between the country's warring military chief, Prime Minister and police commissioner.
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, who continues to warn of an imminent coup in Fiji, welcomed confirmation of the talks.
Australia had also been an active player in trying to bring both sides together, he said. "I think the New Zealanders have been enormously helpful in using the opportunity of Commodore Bainimarama being in New Zealand for a christening to get in touch with him to try and find a solution to this problem." Mr Downer denied that the Wellington talks would upstage his own plans to host a Pacific foreign ministers meeting this week.
Mr Qarase flew out of Nausori airport, near Suva, yesterday afternoon, accompanied by the nation's Australian police chief, Andrew Hughes, on their way to meet a Royal New Zealand Air Force plane in Nadi for the flight to Wellington.
Commodore Bainimarama told a Fijian radio station afterwards that it would be a short meeting and that he would not give in on any of his demands despite agreeing to stay in New Zealand for the meeting.
Mr Hughes stood firm on his investigation of the commander yesterday. He warned Fijian Director of Public Prosecutions Josaia Naigulevu that it would be a "weak" decision if he gave in to pressure not to recommend sedition charges against Commodore Bainimarama.
Hitler did not hold back from criticising his inner circle. He is scathing about Himmler's enthusiasm for archaeological digs to establish the origins of the Aryan race but reserved his bitchiest remark for Goering.
"I looked at him across the dining table and then I knew that what they say was true," he says, "that pigs eat the flesh of their own."
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It's already been done. There is a movie called SWASITKA, they used german lip readers to give dialouge to Hitler's home movies. Isaw it in college back in the seventies.
From IMDB "This feature length documentary will knock your socks off ... if you're ever lucky enough to see it. If you have ever wondered how Hitler and his thugs wooed the Germans? Philippe Mora has assembled an incredible body of film footage here and let the material tell the story ... there is no narration, something Philippe does particularly well (see his next doco, BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A DIME). He was even able to find Eva Braun's home movies of Hitler, mostly taken at Obersalzburg, and with the help of German lipreaders, bring them to life. Students of history will find it particularly enlightening. It is also horrifying. Most people didn't think Hitler was at all bad. Famous reporter Dick Brinkly singing the praises of Hitler in the mid 30s must be embarrassing. See it if you can. Pray it comes out on DVD one day."
They also say its on DVD in the UK.
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NEW DELHI: Union Minister for Coal Shibu Soren, prime accused in the case of murder of his former private secretary Shashinath Jha, and four others were held guilty by a CBI special court here on Tuesday.
Immediately after his conviction, Mr. Soren submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The CBI's charges against the accused were that they entered into a criminal conspiracy to abduct and murder Jha in 1994.
The court held Mr. Soren guilty under Sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy) and 364 (abduction) read with Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code.
The others convicted were Nand Kishore alias Nandu, Ajay Kumar Mehta alias Dilip, Pashupati Nath Mehta alias Posho and Shailendra Bhattacharya.
The court acquitted Ashish Thakur and Sunil Khaware, stating there was no evidence against them.
Soon after the verdict, Additional Sessions Judge B.R. Kedia asked the CBI to take the convicted into custody.
While Mr. Soren was admitted to the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, after he complained of uneasiness, the others were taken to the Tihar Central Jail.
The Judge said he would pronounce the quantum of sentence on November 30.
The lower court in March 1999 framed charges against the accused. The CBI charge-sheeted the seven on November 10, 1998.
It said Jha was abducted on May 22, 1994 from Dhaula Kuan in southwest Delhi and murdered in a residential colony in Ranchi as he had knowledge of a bribe paid to four Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) MPs, including Mr. Soren, who had voted against the no-confidence motion moved against the P.V. Narasimha Rao Government in July 1993.
The charge sheet said Jha was in the know of a "secret deal" between the JMM and the Congress to bail out the Narasimha Rao Government, and that he demanded a share in the deal. The Parliament police registered a case of abduction and murder on a complaint by Amar Nath Jha, elder brother of Shashinath Jha, in June 1994.
The case was transferred to the CBI, following a Delhi High Court order on a writ petition by Jha's mother, Priyamvada Devi.
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The Womens Protection Bill (WPB) was repugnant to Islamic injunctions, but the government had passed it to please its Western masters, said Jamiat Ahle Hadith Ameer Senator Prof Sajid Mir on Monday.
Addressing the Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA), he said that the clerics recommendations were not given a consideration, but all what President Pervez Musharraf wanted was included in the bill. He said that changes in the school syllabus and bombing of religious seminaries were a planned agenda against Islam.
He said that punishment for rape or fornication included in the bill was un-Islamic. According to the bill, if a husband accuses his wife of adultery and she confesses it, no action will be taken against her except divorcing her, he said, adding that such a woman should be treated under rape offence according to Islam.
He admitted that the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) supported the president on various issues, including the 17th amendment, but the president betrayed it by not resigning from the army. He accused the government of corruption and had failed to maintain law and order. He said that the entire opposition would resign from the assemblies at a suitable time.
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If that is a picture of Sajid in his skin tight form fitting hat, he can go stand in the corner. What a maroon.
A woman in her 30s was listed in moderate to serious condition on Monday afternoon with injuries sustained after she fell from the third story of a Hadera building. Police suspect that the woman had actually been defenestrated by her husband, but wer unable to question him immediately after the incident, as he appeared to be drunk.
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Defenestration is the act of throwing someone or something out of a window. The word comes from the Latin de ("from; out of") and fenestra ("window"). Merriam-Webster's dictionary users named it as one of their favorite words of the year in 2004. [1]
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An infant girl who died in August 2005 of a high body temperature might have been put in a microwave, and her mother has been charged in the death, authorities said Tuesday. China Arnold, 26, was arrested at her home Monday on a charge of aggravated murder, more than a year after she brought her dead month- old baby to a hospital, police said. 
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish police have told a man dubbed Ireland's dumbest crook to give up his disastrous criminal career before it gets the better of him.
Man on trial for putting baby in freezer
The Womens Protection Bill (WPB) was repugnant to Islamic injunctions, but the government had passed it to please its Western masters, said Jamiat Ahle Hadith Ameer Senator Prof Sajid Mir on Monday.
A woman in her 30s was listed in moderate to serious condition on Monday afternoon with injuries sustained after she fell from the third story of a Hadera building. Police suspect that the woman had actually been defenestrated by her husband, but wer unable to question him immediately after the incident, as he appeared to be drunk.
