(The following news piece is not for the faint of heart)
An Ohio mother has been found guilty of killing her 1 month old daughter, MSNBC reports. This is a horrific case, one that took two trials to return a guilty verdict. Apparently there was an argument between 28 year old China Arnold and her boyfriend over just who the biological father was, and in a rage Miss Arnold put one month old Paris into her microwave oven and cooked the little girl to death. One month. I am days (perhaps hours) away from the birth of our third child and first daughter, and such news leaves me stunned, horrified, outraged, and truly at a loss.
The report reads,
When the verdict was read Friday, Arnold showed no reaction and then lowered her head, looking down at the defense table. Relatives in the courtroom cried and covered their faces with their hands.
It adds,
She was found guilty of aggravated murder and faces the death penalty when sentenced.
This is, in my view, why the death penalty exists. This kind of case, in which an infant child is effectivley tortured by being roasted to death, is the strongest of arguments for exacting the ultimate penalty. All around, this is a tragedy.
“Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” Gen 6:5
That’s why God brought the flood and that’s why He’s going to judge this world once again, fully and finally. The depravity of man knows only the restraints God’s grace sets on it. This story is infuriating to me, a father of a four year old son, a five month old daughter, and now another on the way.
The power of the sword is in the power of the government. I, like you, feel this is a situation that typifies why the death penalty is and should be used.
These stories horrify me. But, what is even more horrifying is if that baby was still in the womb, that Mom could do whatever she wanted to with that “fetus” and be applauded. We live in a messed up tragic world.