Mom kills, dismembers, and attempts to eat baby.
 

**WARNING: Graphic details to follow **


SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A woman charged with murdering her 3 1/2-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. The child's aunt and two cousins, ages 5 and 7, were in the house, but none were harmed.

McManus, who appeared uncomfortable as he addressed reporters, said Sanchez apparently ate the child's brain and some other body parts. She also tore his face off, chewed off three of his toes and decapitated the infant before stabbing herself.

"It's too heinous for me to describe it any further," McManus said.

Officers called to Sanchez's house at about 5 a.m. Sunday found her sitting on the couch "screaming that she killed her baby," police spokesman Joe Rios said. They found the boy's body in a bedroom.

Police said Sanchez said the devil told her to kill her son.


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What.in.the.holy.hell...

I'll have to read the entire article once I get home, but this is ridiculous.

I actually just yelled out 'what the hell?!'

Now I'm just speechless... Sad...

these instances are beyond hideous and frightening and all the more reason to stress the importance of professional intervention in severe cases of postpartum psychosis.

It's funny how when people do something sick and stupid, they always say "the devil made me do it." so they can plead insanity.

Whatever.

If you read the article, it says that "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." I doubt that Ms. Sanchez was in her right mind when she did these things. Post partum depression and post partum psychosis are very real things and when people who have pps aren't receiving proper care, things like this can happen. When you read about Andrea Yates' full case, you find out that what happened with her children could've been prevented as well.

I read, and it said she was being checked on, so that tells me they knew she was sick. I know those are very real issues, but if they already knew she was sick, then why was she out of the hospital? If they would have kept her there and continued treatment, this wouldn't have happened.

Supposedly, in the 70s David Berkowitz said a dog told him to murder people. C'mon! Give me a break! Some people just really need to take responsibility for their own actions. Half the time, I honestly don't think anyone has told anyone to do anything, they just did it. What about the guy in Michigan who dismembered his wife and placed her body parts all over the place? I guess the devil told him to do it too. I understand she's sick, but why was she out of the hospital and in the presence of her baby?

I'm not in a position to speculate for why she is out of the hospital. It is possible that she was allowed to have contact with her baby if someone else was present (see, Andrea Yates case), and someone dropped the ball on supervision.

And to me there is a difference between a serial killer saying that his neighbor's dog told him to committ murder, and a mentally ill woman who finally succumbed to her illness.

You do understand how this is very different from the story this thread is about, right?

Very tragic and disturbing story. :(

something else too that caught my eye...the father of the baby had just recently just moved out....I wonder if that was the straw...

This story made me think of that horrific Greyhound bus murder which happened last year in Canada. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_McLean

This is too awful for words.

damn.....

Educate yourself in mental health before you make comments like the ones you've been posting.

WTH!!!