Otty Sanchez, 33, Decapitates Infant Son, Scott Wesley Buchholz, Eats Some of His Body Parts

HORROR: I am amazed that this story has managed to fly under the mainstream media radar, instead we are being inundated with the fallout from President Barack Obama's comments in the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. by a white police officer, Sgt. James Crowley and the continued fascination with the Michael Jackson death investigation. Otty Sanchez, 33, did the unthinkable. San Antonio police said that she decapitated her infant son, Scott Wesley Buchholz Sanchez, and ate parts of his body. The family said that she has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and postpartum psychosis before the slaying at a North Side home this weekend. This begs the question of why on earth was she left alone with the baby? I am sure the cops that went to the scene of this horrific crime need counseling. It is unfathomable that someone could do this to another human being, let alone an innocent baby.

This is really horrific. Police said she confessed to killing the infant on Sunday with a steak knife and two swords before mutilating the corpse and eating body parts that included the brain, nose and toes, police said. She has been charged with capital murder and remained under 24-hour observation Monday at University Hospital, where she was treated for self-inflicted knife wounds. The baby's father said that she should receive the death penalty.

“She was hysterical, screaming, ‘I killed my baby. I killed my baby,'” Police Chief William McManus said. Sanchez told detectives that she was “hearing voices” and the devil made her kill her baby boy, who was born June 30. “You can still be prosecuted if you have some form of mental illness,” said First Assistant District Attorney Cliff Herberg. “The test is if you understand the difference between right and wrong. The question is whether or not you know your act is wrong.” Source: My SA News

Postpartum depression reportedly affects one in 10 mothers and the more severe postpartum psychosis — which includes hallucinations — affects one in 1,000. The problem for me is that the family should have seen that her mental state was deteriorating. Relatives said her mental health severely deteriorated in the week before Scotty's death, then if this was the case, why didn't they seek an intervention, especially given the fact she suffers from schizophrenia. This poor, innocent baby did not deserve to be murdered by his mother. It is unconscionable what she did to him and she should get the death penalty for her actions. This is beyond depraved. This is horrific.

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