Mother Ka Yang is being held without bond on suspicion of murder for the death of her baby that took place March 17, 2011.
Sacramento police have arrested a mother after an investigation found her baby likely died from burns suffered in a microwave oven at home in the 800 block of Rood Avenue. Ka Yang, 29, is being held without bail in Sacramento County Jail. (June 22)
The child sustained unusual and rare thermal burns the investigation revealed that these burns were consistent with only three other cases in this country with the same similar type injuries. And that it was determined that those injuries as a result of being burned in a microwave oven.
— Sacramento Police officer Laura Peck
Police sent out a reminder that there are places, such as a firehouse or hospital, to drop off children that are unwanted — ‘no questions asked.’
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