08-24-2003, 05:49 AM
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Location: Somewhere in Ohio
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Broiled baby!!!
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Woman sentenced for hurting baby
By Marty Roney
Montgomery Advertiser
WETUMPKA -- In a surprise move Thursday afternoon, Melissa Wright, the Coosada woman charged with attempted murder for placing her infant daughter in a hot oven, pleaded guilty in Elmore County Circuit Court.
Circuit Judge Sibley Reynolds sentenced Wright, 27, 100 Harm's Way, Lot 10, to 25 years in prison.
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.
"The child has made a remarkable recovery, considering the injury she sustained," said District Attorney Randall Houston. "She is in the care of other family members and still faces years of reconstructive surgery. I am satisfied with this lengthy prison sentence. It is unthinkable that a person could do something like this to a defenseless child. I feel a 25-year sentence fits the crime in this case."
Wright, who was in court Thursday on a change of venue motion when she entered the plea, originally told investigators the child fell into the oven by accident. She told lawmen she was holding the baby when she opened the oven to check on liver that was cooking. She told authorities the child slipped from her arms, fell on the door, rolled into the oven and the door closed.
The anguished cries of the child brought her father from outside, where he got her out of the oven and rushed her to the hospital.
When news of the case broke, it garnered national media attention. The quiet community of Coosada had to come to grips with one of its own accused of such an act.
"How in the world could a mother do that to her child?" said Christie Fuller of Coosada, who has two children. "I hope she was temporarily insane or something like that. I can't accept a sane person could do something like this."
"This was not an accident. This was attempted murder," Houston said. "We were going to argue, and we feel the evidence would show, Wright was jealous of the attention the father was placing on the child. She didn't suffer from any mental illness. She is just mean as hell."
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And can anyone give me a good reason why we don't need to get a license to have kids? We need one for everything else. There are far too many stories out there like this.
A 25 year sentence is not enough. She ruined her childs life.. Unfuckingbelievable.....
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