A woman in the States has been sentenced to life in prison for cooking a baby to death in a microwave.

China Arnold (28) deliberately placed her one-month-old daughter in the oven after a row with her boyfriend.

A judge in Dayton, Ohio, said the words did not exist to describe such a heinous atrocity.

Judge Mary Wiseman said the crime was "shocking and utterly abhorrent for a civilised society".

"No adjectives exist to adequately describe this heinous atrocity," Judge Wiseman said, rejecting a plea by Arnold's lawyers for a sentence that allowed the possibility of parole after 25 years in prison.

Her defence team said that there was evidence that somebody else was responsible for Paris Talley's death, and says the cellmate has now changed her story.

Arnold's lawyers now want a third trial. The first hearing was declared a mistrial when new witnesses came forward.

Arnold "has faith in the system, she is strong and will continue to fight until her innocence is proven," said her lawyer Jon Paul Rion.