Mother Puts Child in Oven, Recieves 25 Years

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2003-08-23 09:30pm

http://www.annistonstar.com/news/2003/a ... 2w4457.htm

Mother given 25 years for placing infant in hot oven
From wire reports
08-23-2003

WETUMPKA

A 27-year-old woman pleaded guilty to attempted murder and received a 25-year prison term for placing her infant daughter in a hot oven.

Melissa Wright of Coosada pleaded guilty Thursday before Elmore County Circuit Judge Sibley Reynolds. The court hearing had been set to consider a defense bid to relocate the trial, but became a plea proceeding.

Wright placed her 18-month-old daughter in the oven in June 2002, with the setting on broil. The child received third-degree burns over 70 percent of her body. Her screams brought help from her father, who was outside the house.

"The child has made a remarkable recovery, considering the injury she sustained," said District Attorney Randall Houston.

The child remains in the care of relatives and still faces years of reconstructive surgery.

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Seriously, whiskey...tango...foxtrot. That is really screwed up...

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-08-23 09:34pm

What kind of crazed psycopath does it take to do something like that?

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-08-23 09:35pm

What an evil bitch.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2003-08-23 09:36pm

Being derranged enough to kill your kid one thing. Being deranged enough to try and kill your kid in such a painful manner, that's just whack!

russellb6666 · Post by **russellb6666** » 2003-08-23 09:46pm

what the fried fuck??? that is seriously fucked up I mean FUCK!!!

Captain Cyran · Post by **Captain Cyran** » 2003-08-23 09:52pm

That's something I wouldn't even do to people I hate with every fiber of my being...that is fucking sick and twisted period, but to do that to your own 18 month old daughter...I don't believe it possible...something must have cracked in that woman.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-08-23 10:03pm

I see a candidate to the Forced Organ Donation Program.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-08-23 11:30pm

That is fucked up, but at least sees getting an appropriate punishment. Meanwhile we have that couple in Canada who got off Scot free for starving a child to death.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-08-24 12:22am

Disgusting.

That woman will not have an easy time in prison.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-08-24 12:54am

Maybe the kid tried to eat her ginger bread house. o.o

Anyway, we should stick HER in an oven. Fucking twat.

LordShaithis · Post by **LordShaithis** » 2003-08-24 01:15am

Bah... Times like this, I have to admit there were a few things the Soviet Union did right, namely dealing with shit like this. *POP* One behind the ear, no fuss, no muss.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-08-24 01:17am

25...that's it?!

Jeebus...that is one sick and twisted bitch.....she should feel lucky that's all she can get on attempted murder.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-08-24 02:01am

What happened to the gold old days when Mentally Disturbed young mothers turned the gas but didn't light the ovens and used them as their own gas chambers ala Sylvia Plath....

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-08-24 02:04am

The Yosemite Bear wrote:What happened to the gold old days when Mentally Disturbed young mothers turned the gas but didn't light the ovens and used them as their own gas chambers ala Sylvia Plath....

The electric stove happened.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-08-24 02:56am

That's easily a death sentence-worthy crime. If not that, they should at least render her incapable of having children.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-08-24 05:46am

Of course the scary part is that Sylvia and Stans kids are now writting and being published too.

Mostly about the psych trauma of their mother's scuicide when they were all toddlers...

Sebastin · Post by **Sebastin** » 2003-08-24 07:27am

The Yosemite Bear wrote:What happened to the gold old days when Mentally Disturbed young mothers turned the gas but didn't light the ovens and used them as their own gas chambers ala Sylvia Plath....

We used to have a neighbour who made suicide attemps like that on a weekly basis. She always invited someone for some bogus reason (To help her in the household for example, she was quite old) and timed it so that her guests arrived just in time to find her with her head in the oven. We eventualy started to always inform her family when she planned another one so they wouldn´t be late. The preparations where easy to spot for us,
she always made cake beforehand so she could offer her saviors something.

The Duchess of Zeon · Post by **The Duchess of Zeon** » 2003-08-24 07:56am

Durandal wrote:That's easily a death sentence-worthy crime. If not that, they should at least render her incapable of having children.

Well, the child was fortunately saved. As it stands I'd support doubling the length of the sentence, however...

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-08-24 08:16am

Captain_Cyran wrote:something must have cracked in that woman.

Is that somethign in severe case of PND - the inability to see your child as a human being, or indeed anything more than a attention seekign puke and shit machine?

When I read about mothers who are capable of this, it terrifies me of what might happen to me if I have children.

The Duchess of Zeon · Post by **The Duchess of Zeon** » 2003-08-24 08:32am

innerbrat wrote: Is that somethign in severe case of PND - the inability to see your child as a human being, or indeed anything more than a attention seekign puke and shit machine?

When I read about mothers who are capable of this, it terrifies me of what might happen to me if I have children.

Well, it didn't appear that there was any attempt at an insanity defence--though of course one grants that legal insanity is a very stiff thing to prove--so one simply can't be sure in this case.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-08-24 08:41am

The Duchess of Zeon wrote: Well, it didn't appear that there was any attempt at an insanity defence--though of course one grants that legal insanity is a very stiff thing to prove--so one simply can't be sure in this case.

Well, it's the difference between knowing that the screaming bag of skin is a person and your child, and feelign it. It's probably not proveable, nor defendable.

LordShaithis · Post by **LordShaithis** » 2003-08-25 12:03am

Who cares what she was thinking? She's reneged on her membership in the human race, and needs a bullet.

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2003-08-25 12:43am

innerbrat wrote:
Captain_Cyran wrote:something must have cracked in that woman.
Is that somethign in severe case of PND - the inability to see your child as a human being, or indeed anything more than a attention seekign puke and shit machine?

When I read about mothers who are capable of this, it terrifies me of what might happen to me if I have children.

Brat? Just the fact that you can worry like that means that you have far more of a conscious than this sick, demented woman ever had.