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Prosecutors in Kansas City, Missouri say that on Friday, February 9 — two days before the Kansas City Chiefs won the Super Bowl and five days before a lone Kansas City gunman shot and killed one person and injured over a dozen others during a post-Super Bowl victory parade — a 26-year-old black woman named Mariah Thomas placed her month-old daughter Za’Riah in an oven, killing her. The hapless newborn had been living in a Kansas City house along with her mother, who was apparently uneducated, unemployed, and still living with her parents.
The child’s grandfather claims his daughter frantically called him on Friday afternoon howling that “something was wrong with the baby and that he needed to return home immediately.” He says he smelled smoke upon entering the house and found his granddaughter dead in her crib.
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According to a press release from the prosecutor’s office:
Kansas City police responded to a residence after being dispatched on a report of a non-breathing infant. Responders observed the 1-month-old child with apparent burns. They were told the mother of the child was putting the child down for a nap and accidentally placed the child in the oven instead of the crib.
Police arrested Mariah Thomas and charged her with “Endangering the Welfare of a Child in the 1st Degree, Death of a Child.” The charging documents quote Thomas as saying, “I thought I put [Za’Riah] in her crib and I accidentally put her in the oven.” The criminal complaint describes what police saw when they arrived at the house:
The victim had sustained apparent thermal injuries on various parts of her body. She was clothed in a bodysuit over a diaper. The clothing appeared to have melted onto the diaper, and it was very dirty, possibly burned on the backside. A baby blanket with significant burn marks was located in the living room and was collected.
“Mariah has been dealing with mental illnesses since [she was] a child,” an unnamed “close friend” of the accused told the Daily Beast.
She thought everyone only likes her because her daughter was born, and she didn’t like that at all. She wanted everyone’s attention, too, just like Za’Riah was getting attention. . . . I know Mariah didn’t do it on purpose. . . . She didn’t mean to hurt her baby. . . . She loved her baby dearly.
So is it fair to assume she loved the baby dearly, but she loved getting attention even more?
Mariah Thomas’ Facebook page reveals her as your run-of-the-mill dumb basic fat black bitch, with multiple pictures of her high on weed, nuzzling up to liquor bottles, and flipping the bird.
Little Za’Riah was apparently not the unemployed and uneducated mom’s first child, because on March 19 of last year, mama posted an apparent solicitation for new sperm donors titled “who Trying to Give Me Another Kid?” Someone obviously stepped into the batter’s box and swung, because within a few months, Thomas was posting snaps of her disgustingly bloated pregnant belly and scans of the doomed fetus in utero.
On January 15, which is likely when the li’l black pup was about a week old, her mom ominously posted:
I won’t be on here don’t inbox me or none of that I don’t fuck with ya’ll I’m done being fucking nice . . . like I said before y’all only fucking with me cause of my daughter & I said what I said.
Well, if she said what she said, one can only infer that it is what it is, and I have no other choice but to conclude that it’s all good.
At 1:55 PM on February 8 — Thomas’ 26th birthday — she posted a picture of her newborn and wrote, “Twin, Where Have You Been? Nobody Knows Me Like You Do Za’Riah Mae.”
The next day, medical technicians would be carting away Za’Riah’s charred one-month-old corpse.
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This is not the first case of a parent baking their child to death either on purpose or by negligence, although it is to my knowledge the first time a parent claimed she mistook the oven for a crib and apparently expected everyone to believe her.
The “Baby-Roast,” AKA the “Cooked Baby” and “The Hippy Babysitter,” is a time-honored urban legend. At least over the past quarter-century, though, the legend has been replicated multiple times in real life. Last year in Atlanta, police charged 24-year-old Lamora Williams with baking her one- and two-year-old children in an oven and possibly leaving them there for a few days, to the point where neighbors said they noticed that the apartment “smelled like death.”
In 2018, Mississippi police arrested 48-year-old Carolyn Jones and charged her with stabbing her 20-month-old granddaughter before placing her in an oven and cooking her alive.
In 2015, Houston police charged 25-year-old Racqual Thompson and her boyfriend Cornell Malone with child endangerment when Thompson’s 19-month-old daughter J’Zyra — I don’t come up with these names, I merely report them — died after a three-year-old sibling popped her in an oven and baked her to death. Neither the baby’s mom, nor her boyfriend with the inimitably black name of Cornell Malone, were apparently home at the time of the infanticidal incineration.
In 2005, after arguing with her unquestionably black boyfriend Terrell Talley over whether he’d actually fathered her 28-day-old daughter Paris, 25-year-old China Arnold of Dayton, Ohio shoved the infant into a microwave oven, turned it on for two minutes, and then removed the baby, who was already dead from “high-heat internal injuries.”
Those are all the cases I know about blacks baking their own babies. I’m sure I missed a few humdingers. But to be fair, it’s not only blacks who do this.
After all, Asians are known for ruthlessly slaughtering their infants for the slightest imperfection or indiscretion. I’ve heard it’s some kind of cultural thing with them. Ka Yang, a slant-eyed mother of four from Sacramento, intentionally shoved her baby girl into a microwave and nuked it one day in 2011 after reportedly becoming annoyed that the baby “was being irritable and fussy and holding her back from her work.”
In 2007, allegedly “upset because his wife didn’t love him,” a 20-year-old white Texan named Joshua Mauldin tossed his two-month-old daughter Ava inside a microwave and zapped her for ten to 20 seconds. Mind you, this was after he’d punched her and also placed her in “a refrigerator and a hotel room safe.” The baby survived but suffered permanent physical and psychological scarring.
In 1999, a 20-year-old white Virginia woman named Elizabeth Renee Otte placed her newborn son in a microwave and turned on the juice, killing him. Otte, a confirmed epileptic, only served five years in prison because she claimed she’d suffered a seizure the day of her baby’s death — and the judge apparently bought it.
I’m unaware of whether Ms. Otte or her lawyers attempted to prove she’d had a seizure that day, but since she had a record of epilepsy, it’s at least more plausible than trying to get someone to believe you actually thought an oven was a crib.
This leads to two possibilities: Miz Mariah Thomas either turned the oven on while putting little Za’Riah in it, or it was already heated.
Which leads to two more possibilities: Either Mariah Thomas, that supremely unlikeable and terminally unemployable obese black baby mama from America’s Heartland, is actually dumb enough — or was high enough — to think an oven was a crib, or she purposely murdered her baby and thought the rest of the world was even dumber than she is and would swallow her alibi without blinking.
So is it worse to accidentally kill your baby because you’re dumber than a half-chewed stick of dried salamander jerky, or because you were jealous that the little creature was getting more “likes” on social media than you were?
I’ll be back to answer that, but if you’ll excuse me, I have to throw up.
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I kind of hate to admit I’m living in Kansas City at this point. At least the Chiefs won. And we didn’t destroy downtown. What’s a few bullets between friends?
Me too, I console myself with the footage of Chiefs fans tackling the shooter.
I’m still waiting for them to say that “They aren’t racist”
Give it time
If she can convince the jury that the baby was really White and called her a name she could get away with it. A young negro in Florida named Corey Pujols killed an old timer with a punch and only received 2 years of house arrest because he was called a name. Just like on the dark continent, words can kill.
Prosecutor: “Ms. Thomas broiled her baby.”
Ms. Thomas: “She call me da n-wert.”
Judge: “You poor dear. Case dismissed. Come here, I hug you now.”
“Mz Mariah, when is de possum roast gwine be done? Now looky heah! You done put it in de crib!”
“26 and still living with her parents”
Ok boomer
Wasn’t the delightful young lady who speaks so eloquently on Facebook just exercising her reproductive rights? The baby with an apostrophe in its name was just a scant few weeks from being a fetus. Who’s counting? Those who consider micro-waving or roasting a newborn “wrong” or “politically incorrect” would have been fine with it if they killed it before she calved it, even becoming emotional and weepy over a woman’s right to plan.
If you have a Planned Parenthood in your town, you know that’s just a safe space for women to go and plan and be parental. Nothing else goes on there! Just women “getting the care they need” as Biden once said of late-term abortion.
Feti might take a different view.
Why not have the baby, see if you like it or not, before deciding whether to toss it in the trash-compactor or not? Isn’t that your right as a reproducer?
Hopefully the baby she gives birth to nine months from now, fathered by a prison guard, fares better. If not, so what? Fuck babies, man! They interfere with plans! What if you had planned to live with your parents without a baby?
It’s the apostrophe in wee Za’Riah’s name that kills me. How did she even know about apostrophes?
White people kept approaching her while she was pregnant and asking her about “the bun in the oven”, which only served to confuse her – ergo this clearly the fault of our white supremacist society.
I was once surprised when I read in the microwave manuals that pets should not be dried there. It never occurred to me that someone could put a cat or small dog in a microwave oven to dry him/her. But here I see that there are even more severe and strange cases.
I’m sickened by this loss of another Black body. Americans seem to be confident that they have an unlimited supply of Black people. That’s not true. American Blacks are a very precious resource. Our loss of indigenous Blacks forces us to bring in Haitians and Africans from the motherland.
But are these imported negroes as valuable as those we have developed here in the US? It will take generations to make foreign born negroes as incredibly violent as our domestic stock. Sure, they have the capability to reach these levels of violence and havoc, but they will remain trainees for too long.
” Americans seem to be confident that they have an unlimited supply of Black people.”
I know! Its a real tragedy. But hey! – once they’re gone, they’re gone! Their good looks, brilliant problem-solving ability and originality combined with their natural altruism, inquisitive minds and humour. GONE, GONE, GONE, FOREVER! What a waste. I don’t want to believe it, but if things continue as they are, then its quite possible. Just because some silly, jumped-up, snooty, workshy and parasitic college lecturers back in the 1960’s and ’70’s said that everybody was the same in terms of ability and such the like. If only Robert Mugabe was still around – he’d a made an excellent president of the United States, but hey – one can only dream. I’m glad I’m the age I am now. I wouldn’t like to imagine what the world will be like in maybe as little as forty or so years from now. I’m based in the UK. Its reckoned by 2065/66 my country will have reached the point of no return – but by then I’ll be dead (unless I live to be 100) and it will be somebody else’s problem. We were warned.
The only thing we can do now is stay positive and hope for the best.
Best Regards From Buckingham Palace Land.
Wigger Boy.
“Just because some silly, jumped-up, snooty, workshy and parasitic college lecturers back in the 1960’s and ’70’s said that everybody was the same in terms of ability and such the like.
As bad as the college professors are/were, it is the dumbasf**k white baby boomers that believed their lies instead of what their own eyes actually saw. Not only is your formerly great UK doomed but so is this formerly great country doomed.
Remember 94% of white people in this country approve of white people marrying negroids. I’ll bet dollars to donuts that same percentage holds true in your UK. Just so f**kin sad.
“Remember 94% of white people in this country approve of white people marrying negroids. I’ll bet dollars to donuts that same percentage holds true in your UK. Just so f**kin sad.”
Yes you’re right, but the apparently race-mixing-approving people to whom you refer are only giving the socially approved answer to the question they were asked. Remember European Man has been on the retreat since Stalingrad. Very few whites want to be recognized as open race-realists.
You’re US-based and use as your screen name a very admirable British politician, academic and soldier so you must have some sort of affinity with the UK. Please don’t be so pessimistic. I’ve got a feeling that this year is going to be quite eventful!
Best Regards Topped With A Stahlhelm.
Wigger Boy
“Za’Riah”
I wonder if that is pronounced similarly to “diarrhea”?
The african-american mating ritual of “Who Trying To Give Me Another Kid” and with special symbol question mark that doesn’t format on desktop version or whatever. A time honoured classic tradition, to be respected and replicated world wide.
And how long was she pregnant for? 7 months maybe? They take less time to develop than us because…Well…there IS less to develop. They had less environmental stress factors, they lived a hand to mouth, often nomadic existence. They have evolved basically completely differently from us. They have more twins and triplets. They physically develop faster. They have different time preference to us. Some of their languages didn’t even have a future or past tense. Some tribes in Africa didn’t even believe in natural death, and any time someone died (of natural causes) they executed someone, on the theory they’d murdered / poisoned / etc the natural dead person.
What is required to bring them to our level? Well. 60,000 years of divergent evolution, in a cold environment, would be a start.
But I’ve got negro fatigue NOW. We certainly don’t have a spare 60,000 years. It’s time to make a clean break with these forsaken people and allow them to go their own way while we go ours.
I wonder how many readers caught the reference in your title. I had to read it as part of my psych studies many years past. Fascinating stuff. But no children were harmed.
“The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales is a 1985 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks describing the case histories of some of his patients. Sacks chose the title of the book from the case study of one of his patients who has visual agnosia, a neurological condition that leaves him unable to recognize faces and objects.” (Wiki)
It was a good book, and yeah, this article’s title was a nod to it.
Oliver Sacks
Played by Robin Williams in the film AWAKENING, of 1990, where the character is called Malcolm Sayer.
A hugely overrated neurologist and a hog for public attention, obstinate to pursue “his” therapies already proven to be ineffective, but his book is an entertaining read.
Perhaps I am biased but I suspect that if his last name had been Smith or O’Connor instead of Sachs the press would have not poured so much adulation on him.
Even James Watson succumbed to the temptation once (The Double Helix) because of his ego but Crick did not. His book does not help the layman really understand the “golden molecule” but it gives his perspective on the politics of research institutes of his time, which is interesting.
My rule of thumb (based on knowing dozens of them) is that scientists who write for the general public — a job that should be left to educated and skillful science reporters — and make the circuit of TV talk shows are more interested in feeding their ego than doing serious work. Worst of all are the books that dramatize the events they purport to describe with invented dialog, etc.
He was also homosexual.
I’m not even going to give that sub-animal a pass for being this dumb. She’s clearly lying.
Like she said, “I thought I put [Za’Riah] in her crib, and I accidentally put her in the oven.” That has to be the most mental lie I heard so far; they’re really not good at lying. Then also explain why the oven is turned on?
Clearly, she wanted to murder the child.
She chimped out in rage or wanted a post-natal abortion. The idea that this was a mistake just isn’t going to fly with me.
Put Momma in the oven. I’m nice enough to believe that a large percentage of her kin would support this.
The cops misunderstood
She didn’t mistake the oven for a CRIB
She mistook the baby for a McRib!
She juss thawt she warmin up leffovers y’honah.
Jamaal mistook a fire alarm for a door knob.
Low IQ blacks belong back in the jungle – free of “complex” modern devices
This reminds me of a phrase we used to use back in the day: ‘Accidentally on purpose.’
That’s a George Jones song: “Accidentally on Purpose“
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