youshouldn'tgiveafuck.: July 2009

SAN ANTONIO
A woman charged with murdering
her 3Ω-week-old son used a knife
and two swords to dismember the child and
ate parts of his body, including his brain,
before stabbing herself in the torso and slicing
her own throat, police said Monday.
Otty Sanchez, 33, is charged with capital
murder in the death of her infant son, Scott
Wesley Buchholtz-Sanchez. She was recovering
from her wounds at a hospital, and was
being held on $1 million bail.
San Antonio Police Chief William
McManus said the early Sunday morning
attack occurred a week after the child’s
father moved out. Otty Sanchez’s sister and
her sister’s two children, ages 5 and 7, were
in the house, but none were harmed.
Otty Sanchez’s aunt, Gloria Sanchez, said
her niece had been “in and out” of a psychiatric
ward, and that the hospital called several
months ago looking to check up on her.
She did not elaborate on the nature of her
niece’s health problems.
“Otty didn’t mean to do that. She was not
in her right mind,” a sobbing Gloria Sanchez
told The Associated Press on Monday by
phone. She said her family was devastated.
McManus, who appeared uncomfortable
as he addressed reporters, said Sanchez
apparently ate the child’s brain and some
other body parts. She also decapitated the
infant, tore off his face and chewed off three
of his toes before stabbing herself.
“It’s too heinous for me to describe it any
further,”McManus said.
McManus described the crime scene as so
grisly that police officers barely spoke to
each other while looking through the house.
Parts of the child were missing, including
pieces that Sanchez allegedly ate.
“At this particular scene you could have
heard a pin drop,” McManus said. “No one
was speaking. It was about as somber as it
could have been.”
Officers called to Sanchez’s house at
about 5 a.m. Sunday found her sitting on the
couch screaming “I killed my baby! I killed
my baby!” McManus said. They found the
boy’s body in a bedroom.
Police said Sanchez said the devil told her
to kill her son and that she was hearing voices.
“It was a spontaneous utterance,”
McManus said.
Police said Sanchez did not have an attorney,
and they declined to identify family
members who might speak on her behalf.
No one answered the door Monday at
Sanchez’s one-story home, where the blinds
were shut. A hopscotch pattern and red
hearts weredrawn on the walk leading up to
the house.
Neighbor Luis Yanez, 23, said his kids
went to school with one of the small children
who lived at the house. He said he
often saw a woman playing outside with
the children but didn’t know whether it
was Otty.
“Why would you do that to your baby?”
said Yanez, a tire technician. “It brings chills
to you. They can’t defend themselves.”
Authorities said Sanchez and her sister
took turns watching the baby Sunday morning,
and that the boy was placed in Sanchez’s
care at about 1:30 a.m. Her sister discovered
what happened about three hours later and
called police.
Investigators are looking into Sanchez’s
mental health history to see if there was anything
“significant,” and whether postpartum
difficulties could have played a role in the
attack, McManus said.
The killing called to mind the drowning
of five children by their mother in the bathtub
of their Houston-area home in 2001.
Attorneys for the woman, Andrea Yates, said
she suffered from severe postpartum psychosis
and, in a delusional state, believed
Satan was inside her and was trying to save
them from hell.A jury found Yates not guilty
by reason of insanity in 2006.

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