Texas Woman Who Decapitated and Tried to Eat Her Newborn Baby

March 07, 2022 Post a Comment

Carnivorous mother who decapitated her iii-week-old baby boy 'refused medication for post-natal depression'

The cannibal mother who killed and ate parts of her iii-week-old baby male child refused to accept medication for her post-natal low, her son's male parent said.

Otty Sanchez had been going to regular counselling and had been briefly hospitalised since the boy was born in the Texas city of San Antonio.

But the 33-year-onetime'due south troubles just became apparent to authorities when they found her earlier dawn on Sunday, in a house where she had access to samurai swords, screaming that she had killed her babe.

Her 3-and-a-one-half-week-old son was dismembered in a scene so gruesome police officers accept been forced to seek psychological help.

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Otty Sanchez is seen with her son, Scott Wesley Buchholz-Sanchez, just later the babe was born

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The iii week-old 'Babe Scotty' was butchered and mutilated by Sanchez at her mother's dwelling

'Maybe we missed' warning signs, San Antonio Police force Principal William McManus said. 'I don't know.'

Sanchez was yesterday released from a hospital where she was treated for cocky-inflicted cuts to her torso and an attempt to slice her own throat.

The former home health care worker, charged with capital murder, is being held at Bexar County Jail on $i million bail.

Authorities said Sanchez attempted suicide after butchering her newborn son, Scott Wesley Buchholz-Sanchez, with a steak knife and two swords while her sister and two nieces, ages 5 and 7, slept in another room.

Sanchez told police that the devil fabricated her kill, mutilate and eat parts the child's brain and toes.

Scott Due west. Buchholz, the infant'southward father, said he met Sanchez six years agone while they were studying to be pharmacists assistants.

Although his girlfriend had mail-natal depression, he revealed that Sanchez only recently told him she was schizophrenic just that she did not announced unstable.

Sanchez, 33, is charged with capital murder in the baby'south decease and could face the death penalty

He now wants prosecutors to pursue the death penalty. 'She killed my son. She should burn down in hell,' said 33-year-old Buchholz.

Otty Sanchez's medical history is muddled. A family member said Sanchez had undergone psychiatric treatment and that a hospital chosen looking for her several months ago.

Gloria Sanchez, Otty's aunt, said her niece had been 'in and out of a psychiatric ward.'

'It'due south just tragic and unbelievable what happened,' said Greg Garcia, Sanchez's showtime cousin who considers her a sister. 'She was a expert, hard-working person, only she had been diagnosed with schizophrenia last twelvemonth.'

In May 2008, Otty Sanchez'southward mother, Manuela Sanchez, called police later her daughter didn't return from a trip to Austin, saying she was concerned about her daughter'south safety.

Mrs Sanchez said she suspected Otty was into drugs and specifically told police force she wasn't suffering from whatever mental issues.

Buchholz, who is himself schizophrenic and takes six anti-psychotic and anti-convulsive medications, said Otty had post-natal depression and had been going to counselling later the nativity, but she refused to take prescription medication for her depression.

'She notwithstanding seemed like a a very caring, loving mother,' he said.

Scott Buchholz is seen with his son just days earlier the infant was murdered

'She held him, she breast fed him. She did everything for him that was overnice,' he added.

Sanchez was taken to the hospital for depression July 20 and released less than a mean solar day later, Buchholz said.

The female parent told him she was schizophrenic and was going to live with her parents and sis.

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Otty Sanchez was treated in hospital for self-inflicted wounds

Sanchez was arrested at her female parent'south firm, where constabulary plant her and the dead infant.

On Sat, Sanchez brought 'Infant Scotty' for a visit but stormed out after Buchholz asked for a copy of the nativity certificate and other documents, Buchholz said.

The father called the constabulary to report that Sanchez drove abroad with the baby without properly restraining him in the car, and deputies investigated it every bit a disturbance.

'If this guy had given usa an indication that she had post-natal depression, or mental defects she was suffering from, we may have addressed it differently,' said Bexar Canton Sheriff Chief Deputy Dale Bennett.

Buchholz said he may take told the deputy Sanchez was depressed, but that he wasn't sure.

While schizophrenia generally develops in men in their late teens and early 20s, women tend to develop the illness, marked by aberrant impressions of reality, afterward in life.

Most new mothers suffer from post-natal depression as hormones shift after a pregnancy and they're drawn handling a new baby.

Merely as many equally one-5th suffer from the more serious postpartum depression, which includes symptoms like despair and failing to swallow or sleep.

Post-natal psychosis is far rarer, affecting only about 1 woman in 1,000.
Women with post-natal psychosis have delusions, ofttimes involving religious symbols and a desire to harm their newborn, said Richard Pesikoff, a psychiatry professor at the Baylor College of Medicine.

He testified in the second trial of Andrea Yates, the high-profile case of a Houston-area female parent found not guilty past reason of insanity after drowning her v children.

Similar to Sanchez'south claim that the devil told her to kill her son, Yates told authorities Satan was inside of her and she was trying to save her children.

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San Antonio constabulary investigate a home where the 3-week-quondam babe boy was stabbed and mutilated

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When regime found the infant'southward torso, Sanchez told officers the devil made her practice it

'The almost common office of post-natal psychosis is the delusional thinking,' said Pesikoff. 'Oftentimes but non e'er, it encompasses some blazon of religious idea.'

The risk of developing post-natal psychosis is 50 per cent or college for women with schizophrenia who are not taking medication, said Lucy Puryear, another psychiatrist who was involved in the Yates example.

'It's ordinarily actually severe,' said Puryear, who wrote the book, 'Agreement Your Moods When You're Expecting.'

'The scary matter is that the delusions are unremarkably always near the baby,' she said. 'In all of the (high profile) cases, the thinking involves the babies: The mother had to kill the babe to protect it, or God has spoken to the mother and at that place is a mission to kill the babe or sometimes the infant is the devil who needs to be gotten rid of to salvage the world,' she said.

She worked until almost two weeks before she gave nascence. Acquaintances described Sanchez and her mother as devout Jehovah'south Witnesses.'They would come up up to our door every so often, but I told them I was Catholic, and so they left,' said Elaine Calchin.

Buchholz's mother, Kathleen, said she had no thought that Sanchez had been diagnosed with the same mental illness her son had.

She thought that baby Scotty was the all-time matter that could take happened to the troubled couple. She is not sure what should happen to the baby's mother.

'I have mixed emotions,' she said. 'She needs to stay under psychiatric intendance. I love her. She was like a daughter. I don't want her out at this point, but that may change.'