California mom, Ka Yang, charged with murder after she microwaves baby to death: cops

[butterfly77]

California mom was arrested Tuesday on charges that she murdered her 6-week-old daughter by microwaving her to death.

Ka Yang, 29, of Sacramento, is being held without bail

The baby, Mirabelle Thao-Lo, was found dead in her home with "extensive thermal injuries" on March 17.

"She had some really deep tissue burns," Sacramento County coroner's office told the Sacramento Bee. "…It was probably the worst case I've ever seen."

Yang initially claimed her daughter's death was caused by a seizure.

The arrest took three months because investigators had to pinpoint what they believed was the cause of death by looking at similar cases, including ones in

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/06/22/2011-06-22_california_mom_ka_yang_charged_with_murder_after_she_microwaves_baby_to_death_co.html

What is going on is everyone losing their damn minds..

[hedgehog]

1. 308, 745, 538 people live in the country today according to the census;

http://www.census.gov/

It stands to reason that we have some people doing incredibly horrible things!

[butterfly77]

2. More than ever now..

[cali]

11. nope. not more than ever. crime has been dropping- including violent crime.

[tabasco]

12. When there is overpopulation,

respect for human life decreases.

I wish I lived on an Earth with no more than half a billion people.

[right2bfree]

36. amen to that. 7 billion people?

[Kali]

3. interesting inclusion of foreign-sounding name in headline

:eyes:

[idiotgardener]

4. What are you implying?

"Casey Anthony" is in every other headline I see. Not foreign sounding.

[Name removed]

5. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[tblue37]

8. The Casey Anthony reference is a perfectly reasonable

response to the previous poster's suggestion that the woman's "foreign sounding name" was highlighted in the headline in a deliberate attempt to provoke xenophobia. Since Casey Anthony, who also is accused of murdering her own daughter, has an Anglo name, and her name appears in many headlines, that rebuts the idea that the woman's name was used to provoke xenophobia. It implies instead that when a woman does something that shocking, her name is commonly used in the headline, whether it is a foreign sounding name or not.

Calling someone an idiot is offensive in itself, but to do so when the person has made a perfectly valid and relevant point in response to someone else's implied claim is--well, it is not a wise thing to do, since it suggests that you were unable to understand something that really is not that hard to understand.

Oh, and nanny-nanny-boo-boo.

[Bluebear]

9. The poster was responding to screen name "idiotgardener", so idiot was a perfectly good nickname!

Evidently the mod who deleted it missed that...

Did you when you alerted? ;)

[tblue37]

15. I didn't alert--I never have, actually, and probably never will. But even when someone

calls himself or herself "idiotgadener," it is wholly inappropriate to say, "Hey, idiot," when trying to tell that person he or she has said something you consider foolish. The linkage is too obvious and insulting.

I knew a girl named "Aston" once. It would never have occurred to me to call her "Ass," especially if I ever had reason to inform her that she had done something I considered foolish. I would assume she would take it as an insult--and I am pretty sure the poster intended the sobriquet "idiot" to be taken as an insult, not as a friendly, amusing play on the other poster's nickname.

[idiotgardener]

37. I didn't actually see it

But I agree with you, of course. Even with the no name-calling rule here, people just gotta be mean sometimes I guess.

[Kali]

20. and to be clear, deleted response #5 wasn't from ME!

it looks like it was, but it was somebody else

[octothorpe]

27. I had a WTF moment when I read that earlier too, but then I noticed the persons name. I then laughed

[TwilightGardener]

16. When the incident first happened, though, it wasn't "Casey Anthony accused of killing child"--

I would bet the headline was something like "woman accused in daughter's murder" or something similar. Anthony is now infamous, which is why her name is in the headline. It IS odd that they included this woman's name, as if we should already know who she is.

[Lil Missy]

31. Pssst! I called him by his chosen screen name. A shorthand version.

whoosh!

:eyes:

[Kali]

7. better question would be: what is headline author/newspaper implying?

WTF is Casey Anthoy???

[tnlefty]

10. Casey Anthony is a young woman currently on trial in FL for

the murder of her 2 yr. old daughter, Caylee.

[Kali]

14. thanks

I don't generally follow that type of news. But I do remember reading something about it here.

[RebelOne]

19. Surprised you have not heard of this trial.

It has been on all the news channels daily.

[Kali]

21. see my other reply - I don't watch tee vee

and get most of my news here on DU

I don't follow sensationalized "local" news unless it is local to me, but yes I had heard of the case, just didn't remember the name.

[TwilightGardener]

6. It is unusual for the suspect's name to be in the headline, unless he or she is already

famous or notorious.

[Kali]

18. that was what I thought

our local paper even stopped naming them at all until there was a conviction, again unless it was a famous person or a particularly notorious situation

not to say microwaving your infant doesn't hit that line, but this seemed more like it had an agenda behind it to me

[octothorpe]

29. I didn't agree with you at first, but I think you're onto something...

Umm, if this just happened and the story hasn't been out there for awhile, then it is weird. When the Casey Anthony thing first happened, the initial reports didn't mention it like that. At least I don't recall them doing it. I'll need to pay more attention in the future.

[Dreamer Tatum]

13. It's to deflect from the thousands of Betty Smiths who nuked their babies yesterday.

And all the Sally Jones who ran over their babies with lawnmowers.

The M$M is just plain old racist, I tell you.




(:eyes:)

[tblue37]

17. Since the article's author ALSO has a very "foreign sounding name,"

I doubt that he or she is inclined to try to stir up xenophobia against foreign-sounding names.

[Kali]

22. headlines are usually not written by the authors of news articles, are they?

seem to remember something like that - at least I never write the headline for my LTTEs to my local paper, and sometimes they are pretty strange.

[LeftyMom]

23. Foreign-sounding?

Since she's 29 she was probably born in the US.

[Kali]

32. whether she was born here or not wasn't my point

the use of a name in a headline is unusual, and the fact that it was not Betty Smith and it was a horrible crime leads me to be suspicious of the intent of the headline writer.

now I'm not up on too much popular culture so maybe she is somebody famous, but to me it looked like the headline writer really wanted to make sure readers knew the accused was not your typical redneck Anglo.

[LeftyMom]

34. My point is that she's probably not "foreign" and her name isn't notable.

This is a town with a lot more Vangs and Nguyens than Browns or Smiths. Calling her by her name isn't racist.

[Kali]

35. fair enough, but

the link is to the NY Daily News (isn't that a sensationalistic rag? or am I thinking of something else?) Is the headline the same in the local news?

and what about putting names of non-famous people in headlines? Is that common practice there or anywhere else?

[sixmile]

24. Not a single post yet expressing sympathy for the pain of the poor baby

Come on, folks. This is a sickening murder of an infant. But we've reduced it to "who's the racist?"

WTF?!

[LeftyMom]

25. Reluctance to state the obvious? Reluctance to dwell on something horrible?

I can't imagine too many people want to dwell on some crazy chick* microwaving her baby.

*The local paper says she's claiming to have multiple personalities or something.

[sixmile]

26. How convenient

No responsibility. The evolving meme.

[LeftyMom]

28. Who on earth are you trying to pick a fight with?

Nobody approves of baby nuking, and none of us actually know the lady's mental state, I'm just sharing an additional detail I read in the Bee, since I assume you don't generally read the Sacramento paper. If you do I apologize.

[Bluebear]

30. you're barking up the wrong tree here, sport.

Truly.

[Kali]

33. not even from you

we discuss the headline, you discuss us, nobody expresses sympathy for the victim


hmmm you do bring up an interesting observation, but your superior accusatory attitude pretty much precludes rational discussion. I agree with LeftyMom.