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The Baby-Roast

The Baby-Roast, also known as The Hippy Babysitter and The Cooked Baby, is an urban legend in which a baby is roasted alive at home by a babysitter or sibling. It is "one of the classic urban legends". There have been a few isolated cases where babies have been roasted.

In some versions, the baby is accidentally cooked when miscommunication occurs. For example, "put the turkey in the oven and the baby in the bed" is wrongly heard as "put the baby in the oven and the turkey in the bed". In other variants, the protagonist is intoxicated with drugs or alcohol, or insane. In the end, the roasted baby is sometimes served as food to be consumed by the parents.

The person who roasts the baby is usually a babysitter or the baby's sibling.

There have been documented occurrences of babies being roasted.

In 1999, Elizabeth Renee Otte put her baby Joseph Lewis Martinez into a microwave oven which resulted in his death. She was sentenced to 5 years in prison for involuntary manslaughter.

In 2002, Melissa Wright of Millbrook, Alabama, placed her 14-month-old daughter into a oven set on broil. The girl survived, but had third degree burns over 30 percent of her body and required years of surgery. Wright was imprisoned for attempted murder and was denied parole in 2016.

In 2005, China Arnold murdered her daughter Paris Talley in a microwave oven.

In May 2012, a British citizen was arrested by Thai police after being found in possession of six corpses of roasted infants, some wrapped in gold leaf, reportedly in conformity with a "black magic ritual".

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