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[Gawdzilla Sama]

Otty Sanchez: Mother Says Devil Made Her Kill Son



DALLAS — Police said they found a 3 1/2-week-old infant stabbed and decapitated in a Texas home on Sunday and his mother screaming that she killed her son after the devil told her to do it.

Otty Sanchez, 33, of San Antonio, was taken to a local hospital in critical condition with self-inflicted stab wounds to her chest and stomach, said San Antonio police spokesman Joe Rios. Investigators took a sword, a machete and a kitchen knife from the home.

Officers also found two children unharmed at the home, though it wasn't immediately clear where they were taken.

Sanchez will be charged with capital murder, Rios said. Police said they didn't know whether she had an attorney. A spokeswoman at University Hospital in San Antonio said she couldn't release information on Sanchez's condition, but Sgt. Wes McCourt said her wounds didn't appear to be life threatening.

Rios said Sanchez was sitting on the couch "screaming that she killed her baby," who police identified as Scott Wesley Buchholtz-Sanchez, when police were called to the home around 5 a.m. Sunday.

"She mentioned that someone or something told her to do it, she was hearing voices. So that leads us to believe that she was experiencing some type of mental crisis," Rios said. "The baby had obviously been decapitated."

McCourt said she told investigators that the devil told her to kill her son.

The infant's body was found mutilated in a bedroom. He likely died earlier Sunday morning, police said.

A woman who answered the phone Sunday at the Bexar County Medical Examiner's office said she couldn't release information about the baby's cause of death.

[Guy_Montag]

Why would you do what the devil told you? I mean it's one thing to sacrifice your son if god tells you, but the devil?

[Feck]

More likely the crack or meth was talking to her .

[charlou]

I wonder about the psychological impact on her other children. Poor little mites.

[Mallardz]

The Devil told me to drink OJ.
I'd have done it anyway!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I wonder about the psychological impact on her other children. Poor little mites.

Hopefully they didn't see any of it.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

It sounds like a classic case of severe schizophrenia. I can't believe that she could get to that state with no warning signs. People rarely just snap like that. Just as in a couple of high-profile cases in the UK, it's likely that someone in Social Services (or whatever the equivalent is over there) wasn't doing their job properly.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

It sounds like a classic case of severe schizophrenia. I can't believe that she could get to that state with no warning signs. People rarely just snap like that. Just as in a couple of high-profile cases in the UK, it's likely that someone in Social Services (or whatever the equivalent is over there) wasn't doing their job properly.

I imagine her church group was praying for her, so there was really no need for the SS to get involved.

[charlou]

It sounds like a classic case of severe schizophrenia. I can't believe that she could get to that state with no warning signs. People rarely just snap like that. Just as in a couple of high-profile cases in the UK, it's likely that someone in Social Services (or whatever the equivalent is over there) wasn't doing their job properly.

There could be mental illness and there could be drugs involved, either prescription or other, or both, or not ... If her other children are young and she's suffering extreme chronic sleep deprivation with the new baby, maybe suffering post natal depression, possibly trying to cope with three young children alone, possibly not had good role models for parenting during her own formative years, etc ... Any one of those factors is debilitating, but a combination of several or many of them can be disastrous. I feel sorry for them all.