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Mine is still young but that actually crossed my mind. I won't even know how to begin to explain this to my boy when he's old enough to ask questions.
Way to take a horrible story into a plug for your swords real class.
Mine is still young but that actually crossed my mind. I won't even know how to begin to explain this to my boy when he's old enough to ask questions.
She knew what she did was wrong and I'm not really buying the "insanity" excuse.
Execution sounds like an appropriate punishment.
What I dont understand is SINCE she is insane and mutilated her kid, why wasnt she successful in committing suicide? A couple of superficial cuts is all she was able to inflict upon herself?This beotch should fry.
Yeah, it's tricky. Sometimes, my son who's 6 will see a news story and ask "What's wrong with that little boy?" and I try to say something like, "That poor little boy had a very bad, stupid mommy who hurt him." I'd rather try to explain it than turn the channel like it doesn't exist. But I don't know. Maybe there are some things little kids are better off not knowing yet.
it wasnt long ago when executions ruled as opposed to todays prisons. here is why
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discipline_and_Punish
Baby's mother diagnosed with psychosis
The 33-year-old woman who police said decapitated her infant son and ate parts of his body had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and postpartum psychosis before the slaying at a North Side home this weekend, the family said Monday.
Otty Sanchez confessed to killing Scott Wesley Buchholz Sanchez 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 father of the baby said Sanchez should receive the death penalty.
“She was a sweet person and I still love her, but she needs to pay the ultimate price for what she has done,” said Scott W. Buchholz, who referred to his child as “baby Scotty.” “She needs to be put to death for what she has done.”
But Sanchez's relatives are hoping authorities will take into consideration her history of mental illness, which included a recent diagnosis of postpartum psychosis.
“It's just tragic and unbelievable what happened,” said Greg Garcia, Sanchez's first cousin, who considers her a sister. “She was a good, hard-working person, but she had been diagnosed with schizophrenia last year.”
The death happened at Sanchez's mother's home in the 300 block of Wayside Drive between 1:30 and 4:30 a.m. When officers arrived about 5 a.m. to find Scotty's mutilated body, Sanchez quickly confessed to the crime, police said.
“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.
The Bexar County district attorney's office will review the detectives' recommended capital murder charge, which is punishable by the death penalty.
“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.”
Dr. Lucy Puryear, a Houston psychiatrist and author, said mothers who experience postpartum psychosis often have a history of other mental disorders, but in some cases childbirth triggers the psychosis.
“It's usually really severe,” Puryear said.
Puryear testified as an expert witness in the case of Andrea Yates, who drowned her five children in Houston in 2001.
While postpartum depression affects one in 10 mothers, Puryear said, the more severe postpartum psychosis — which includes hallucinations — affects one in 1,000.
“In all of the (high-profile) cases, the thinking involves the babies: The mother had to kill the baby to protect it, or God has spoken to the mother and there is a mission to kill the baby, or sometimes the baby is the devil, who needs to be gotten rid of to save the world,” she said.
Relatives said Sanchez's mental health severely deteriorated in the week before Scotty's death. On July 20, she moved out of the home she shared with the baby and his father near Windcrest.
The same day, she checked herself into a hospital after hearing voices, but she soon checked herself out, according to a source familiar with the investigation but unauthorized to speak to the media. She then took the baby to stay at her mother's home.
Buchholz said he called her every day to convince her to return, to no avail.
She finally reappeared about 2 p.m. Saturday at Buchholz's parents' home on the Northeast Side.
“We were so happy to see Scotty again,” Buchholz said.
She was at the home for about 15 minutes when Buchholz told Sanchez that he needed a copy of Scotty's birth certificate and Social Security card. The request seemed to “set her off,” Buchholz said.
“She grabbed the baby and just said, ‘I gotta go. I gotta go. I'm out of here.'”
His mother called 911, and a sheriff's deputy arrived to investigate the incident as a disturbance, court records show.
That night, while Buchholz was attending the Judas Priest concert, he received a cell phone call from Sanchez.
“She told me she had found someone else and she never wanted to see me again,” he said.
Police think she killed the baby six hours later.
The couple's volatile relationship was on and off for the past six years, ever since they met while enrolled in the San Antonio College of Medical and Dental Assistants, but they became dedicated to making it work after learning Sanchez was pregnant last year, relatives said.
“She took really good care of herself during the pregnancy,” said Buchholz, who also has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. “We were excited about having a baby.”
You've got to be out of your mind to be able to kill your own child.Baby's mother diagnosed with psychosis
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