Californian mum microwaved daughter to death

A 34-year-old 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 was convicted of first-degree murder and assault on a child in the death of 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. Prosecutors argued Yang had lied to investigators about Mirabelle’s death before they found a soother in the microwave, according to The Sacramento Bee.