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Texas 'baby-eater' charged with murder

Posted by: 3AW Radio | 29 July, 2009 - 12:58 PM
The woman who allegedly 'decapitated' her baby before eating parts of the body has been charged with capital murder.

Otty Sanchez's alleged murder of her infant son Scott Wesley Buchholtz-Sanchez - born on June 30 - has shocked not just her home-state Texas, but people around the world.

Local police say the mother used a knife and two swords to dismember her baby boy before eating parts of the body, including his brain. The woman also decapitated the child before turning a knife onto herself.

Investigators are describing the case as the worst they have ever come across.

Sanchez has been moved to a jail after recovering at a hospital in San Antonio from self-inflicted stab wounds and is being held on $1 million bail.

The woman - suffering from both schizophrenia and postpartum psychosis - said she heard voices and claimed 'the devil' made her kill her baby.

"I think she should be punished to the fullest extent of the law," father of the child Steve Buchholz - who also suffers from schizophrenia - told US media. "That's what I think should happen. She killed my son; she should burn in hell."

Sanchez had separated from Buchholz about a week before the toddler's death and was living with her mother and sister, who were helping to care for the baby.

Bucholz, who was worried for his son's safety, had been trying to arrange custody at the time of the child's murder.

Blog comments Your Say

  • this tragedy is beyond words,
    seeing things like this remind me of how ruthless and indriscriminating nature is with its selection of victims and the evil acts that befall them. Yes what that women did to that innocent baby was malicious and unholy, but to say "unforgivable" would be a bit over zealous. She had turned the knife on herself after she had commited the atrositiy, which to me shows she welcomes death after what she did. she must have fought hard to resist that god awful urge for a long time, and once her mind caved in there was really no choice in the matter for her, everything she did and was gonna do was preordained in her head from birth. Saying someone of her mentally unsound mind "deserves" to die is really unnecesary since she clearly wishes to be given deaths peace as it is anyway. I feel that she wants to, and for the sake of the rest of mankinds well being, needs to die, but certaintly doesn't deserve to die just for being born gone in the head.

    set the omnicient Wednesday 10 February, 2010 - 6:03 PM
  • Forget that, I dont care if shes nuts or not kill that B*tch! Burn her, chop her up in little bits and feed her to the dogs! She deserves it for killing that poor helpless baby!

    amanda Sunday 24 January, 2010 - 5:57 PM
  • She's obviously insane. They didn't even execute insane people in the Dark Ages - but in Texas she will be executed. She's nuts, guys. Sick in the head - doesn't know what she's doing.

    Martin Tuesday 4 August, 2009 - 11:40 PM
  • I simply can not believe that there are people like this walking around, breathing the same air as any of us. What kind of hell must this infant gone through before the sweet piece of death finally took him? The one one person who was to protect him, care for him, and love him...to be he one who would do such vile and evil things. I can't help but believe that hell is much hotter for those who harm such purity as a new born infant.

    Keri Friday 31 July, 2009 - 9:51 PM
  • In this warped society in which we live, it is interesting to see how this woman is called satanic, crazy, evil, mad, etc. This same woman, however, if she had decided to abort the very same baby say 5 or 6 months earlier, everyone would have thought she was normal, okay, a wonderful mum with a "right to choose" and so on.
    I abhor all kinds of acts of murder, particularly towards those humans who are the most defenceless and innocent. Therefore I cannot possibly understand or condone a "civilisation" that is so hypocritical that on one hand accepts an abortion of a baby as okay, and a killing of a baby only a few months later, after it is born, as terrible. What an abomination a society that twists truths and laws to suit their selfish ways. And please don't insult my intelligence by telling me that that was not the same human being if its mother had decided to "get rid of it" at say four or five months of pregnancy.

    Pro-choicers and media alike should know that just because they make the most noise, does not mean they are right! Thankfully I think with my own head and do not allow myself to get brainwashed by mainstream propaganda, ignorance and stupidity

    Cinzia Friday 31 July, 2009 - 4:57 PM
  • This woman (if you can call her that) should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. There is a condition whereby people who are feeling extremely sorry for themselves will go to such lengths to get attention. Some make their babies sick with medication etc, however this woman has gone way beyong that. I can hear her now "oh poor me, my boyfriend left". Well attention is what she has received and some pity too by the looks of it. Just give her the capital punishment she deserves and be done with it. MAY THIS INNOCENT BABY'S SOUL REST IN PEACE

    Kazz Friday 31 July, 2009 - 10:00 AM

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