OK. This is seriously messed up. Beyond horror movie messed up. More messed up than the French lady that froze her dead kids. Just. Messed. Up.
San Antonio police claim that a woman accused of gruesomely killing her 3-week-old infant also ate some of the baby boy’s body parts. Authorities claim Otty Sanchez ate three of the baby’s toes, part of its brain, then stabbed herself twice.
Police say they found the baby with “three of his toes chewed off, his face torn away and his head was severed,” USA Today reports.
Sanchez’s husband, Scott Buchholtz, told authorities his wife, who was was diagnosed with post-partum depression and was going to be admitted to a hospital to treat her depression, should be executed to pay for her crimes.
“She was a sweet person and I still love her, but she needs to pay the ultimate price for what she has done,” Buchholtz told the San Antonio Express-News. “She needs to be put to death for what she has done.”
Family members told authorities Sanchez’s health had been suffering in the week leading up to the death of her baby. Sanchez told police she’d been hearing voices and killed her baby at the request of the devil.
Sanchez has been charged with capital murder and is being held on $1 million bail. She is also being treated in hospital for her self-inflicted stab wounds. If convicted, Sanchez could be given the death penalty.
Even police were struck by the heinous degree of the crime, reportedly barely speaking to one another while searching the accused’s home.