“Decapitated baby’s mother had psychosis diagnosis.” Is THIS how they do Retroactive Abortions in San Antonio?
By PAUL J. WEBER, Associated Press Writer Paul J. Weber, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 49 mins ago
SAN ANTONIO – The father of a newborn baby who authorities say was mutilated, killed and cannibalized by his mother said Tuesday he wants to see her executed. Scott W. Buchholz told The Associated Press that Otty Sanchez, the mother of 3 1/2-week-old Scotty Wesley Buchholz-Sanchez, seemed fine in the days before the killing, even though they argued.
However, he said she told him she had been diagnosed with postpartum depression and was going to be admitted to a hospital for treatment.
Sanchez’s relatives told The San Antonio Express News that she had been diagnosed with postpartum psychosis, which can cause delusional thoughts and hallucinations.
Sanchez, 33, is charged with capital murder in the baby’s death and could face the death penalty. When authorities found the infant’s body Sunday, Sanchez told officers the devil made her do it, police said.
“She killed my son. She should burn in hell,” Buchholz said.
Otty Sanchez’s aunt, Gloria Sanchez, told The Associated Press that her niece had been “in and out” of a psychiatric ward, and that the hospital called several months ago to check up on her.
Sanchez was hospitalized Tuesday with self-inflicted stab wounds and was being held on $1 million bail. Police have said she does not have an attorney. Authorities found the baby with three of his toes chewed off, his face torn away and his head was severed.
Otty Sanchez’s sister and her sister’s two children, ages 5 and 7, were in the house at the time, but none were harmed.
Sanchez and Buchholz lived together during the pregnancy and the first two weeks after their son was born, he said. An infection complicated Sanchez’s recovery from giving birth, and she was required to use a catheter for about a week. That setback darkened her mood, and she was soon diagnosed with postpartum depression.
She moved out of the couple’s shared home July 20. On Saturday, she showed up to see Buchholz at his parents’ house. She became agitated when he told her he needed a copy of the baby’s birth certificate and Social Security card, Buchholz said.
Sanchez ran out of the home with her son in a car seat, threw the car seat into the front passenger seat of her car and sped away without buckling him in, the San Antonio Express-News reported. She left behind a diaper bag, her purse and her medication.
Buchholz’s mother called 911, and a sheriff’s deputy investigated the incident as a disturbance, according to court records. The next day, authorities said, she killed her son.
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!” San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said.
McManus described the crime scene as so grisly that police officers barely spoke to each other while looking through the house.
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an abortion is the termination of a fetus, not an infant
sad story
*sigh*
this has been bothering everyone in my area for the past few days…..
but sure, the Devil made her do it……f**king copout!
Kill them all, let Buddha sort them out…
This is a bible belt buckle. Sadly, because of this, many of the mentally ill don’t receive the treatment they need. Instead, they are prayed for and “saved”.
eww! that’s some crazy sh!t.
ohhh this is sick this makes my heart ache for this innocent child! i cant bear to hear evil things like this………….
What a tragic story. I don’t imagine that there are too many people who can understand how a mother could do that to her own child.
Regarding San Antonio, I can only say Go Spurs Go!
I don’t remotely support this kind of thing, of course.
That said, what part of “mentally unbalanced” do you fail to understand, exactly? She should be locked up in a mental ward for a LONG time to come. What good is prosecuting someone when they’re mentally ill?
At this time, x inches inside the birth canal the baby is just tissue, but x inches past it it’s a baby.
That will not last.
Already in Europe “abortions” are being rationally discussed at ages up to two years.
What angers me is the excuse of PPD. I am bipolar and I had PPD after having my children. I have known many women who have suffered with PPD. So far I have yet to meet a woman who actually thought about harming her child. We all agreed that when our thoughts did turn dark it was about harming ourselves, not our children.
This just angers me to a point……ugh. She should be executed ASAP. This is one of the rare times that I say capital punishment should be used and used swiftly.
I read the news report last night and I agree with the father. Kill her, the same way she killed that poor baby. Her other two children were in the house while she did this. This was not PPD, this was because she was ticked off at the baby’s father and wanted revenge. I had PPD and I never thought of harming my little boy. It was more that I wanted to hurt myself.
she ate her baby’s brain, nose, and 3 toes… apparently she also skinned the baby and stabbed it repeatedly with a steak nife… it was so bad that the cops have to receive counseling after seeing what they saw. poor baby. rip she needs the death penalty
to the person commenting she did not have desires to harm her child with postpartum depression..please note this woman did not have PPD but postpartum –psychosis..in other words she had delusions and hallucinations and heard voices etc this is different than what you and many other moms with PPD have.
When she comes back to her own mind, she will be tortured by what she has done…noone connected to this–the families, father, mother, sister etc will ever be the same and their lives have all changed forever. This case truly made me cry for the same child.
another site several people said mentally ill people should not reproduce or pass on their genes, so I guess they got what they wanted.
It looks like she was taking medication as she left it behind. I do think the cops coming to investigate and the dad wanting the birth certificate –though perfectly legitimate actions–somehow pushed this unstable mother over the edge more..it seems somewhere inside her she realizes what she did as she was screaming she didn’t mean it and I killed my baby and blaming it on the baby asking her to and the devil (all part of psychosis)
In fact, I once read psychotics actually see the object and hear the voices the same as we see or hear something..except it is not really there but the do not get why their senses that before worked right are wrong now and that makes it hard for them to believe it when people are trying to tell then they are ill or something is not there. She will suffer I believe if she recovers knowing what she did more than any jail could do. I hope her family can get through all this and the dad of the child and his family.f
It is just sad all around ..she did take her meds so it seems the system and the chemical imbalance failed them all. The poor baby..how he must have suffered…no innocents should be killed by their mothers before or after birth..a mother is the one who is supposed to love you the most, but in this case, the mother was mentally ill though she must be locked up in an institution for what she did..just sad all around..