Comments on: Sandra Cantu Case: Huckaby Swallowed Razor Blades- On Psych Meds

By: mom in md

mom in md — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 02:26:31 +0000

Everyone is outraged over this and they should be, but it will only last until the next story. People who commit these crimes want to blame everything and everyone except themselves. ” I was beat with a belt when I was little” so I’ll beat my child. ” I was locked in a closet when I was small ” so I’ll do it you. ” I was raped by my father, brother, uncle, grandfather, priest, etc. ” you’ll survive. ” ” Feel sorry for me I have mental problems “. Well I don’t. I HAVE NO SYMPATHY FOR ANYONE WHO HURTS A CHILD !!! They are not people they are CREACTURES. Slimey little things that should be squashed under society’s shoe and then scraped off and left in a landfill with the rest of this world’s garbage. And that goes for the dispicible lawyers that defend them. Yeh Yeh I know, everyone is innocent until, well who the hell is innocent. 99% of the people in prison belong there. And as for the other 1% that is there who is truly not guilty, you should be there too, because you must have done something that you didn’t get caught for otherwise the cops would have never come knocking. I know that what I am saying seems a lttle nutty but I am so sick and tired of listening to this bullcrap. If these people were abused as children then they know what its like and how much it hurts. Then why would they do it to another child? That excuse just does not make sense. As adults we are responsible to protect the weak and the true innocent of society, and if we can’t do this then we have failed as humans.

By: ella

ella — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:43:58 +0000

Ive also been a little confised as to why many people insist MH could not have acted alone. Is the perception that women are incapable of sexual violence and murder???
According to statistics female molestors are rare but I often wonder if they are just under reported. I have friends, siblings who were molested by their step-mother, (the two brothers have since commited suicide), and another friend sexually abused by her babysitter.
And we all know women are capable of terrible physical and emotional abuse of their own or others children- Ive had alot of experience with some very vicious, cruel women in my life/family.
Women can and do hurt children all the time.

By: JmBrdy

JmBrdy — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:24:41 +0000

“According to the Tracy Press, three of Huckaby’s friends who did not know each other said that Huckaby told them that she had been raped by a policeman when she was 18 but an investigation cleared the Orange County officer.

Fox News reported today that Huckaby’s lawyer, public defender Sam Behar, wants Cantu’s body exhumed for a second autopsy because the rape allegation against Huckaby stems from the original autopsy’s finding that Cantu suffered “genital trauma.”

Judge will rule 4/24 at her arraignment, but there is no way he will grant the exhumation. The pathologist is a neutral party by definition and the autopsy is not even final yet.
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Any word on this Blink? Are they going to exhume this poor girl’s body now? This family just can’t get a moment’s rest can they.

By: Brenda in Virginia

Brenda in Virginia — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:40:27 +0000

As far as “LE instructions”…yes and no. Each department has its own limit to what we can tell the general public (due to lawsuits…honest).

We cannot provide medical advice over the phone in that jurisdiction, nor can officers carry billy clubs…both due to lawsuits targeting the city.

So, that said…we discuss this type of thing at work, you know, how to we HELP without breaking the rules the city puts on the department? We get around that and one things we simply knew between ourselves was what type of information to provide for those who DO call and ask how to protect themselves, or what to tell children. This was one thing we came up with. (eck, if anyone got bitten and suited the family, they’d have sued US for the advice and God knows we couldn’t have told the info any more. Just how it works.)

By: sweetpea

sweetpea — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:09:33 +0000

I really didn’t want to go here, but I hope to give others an insight to mental illness.

My ex-husband had mental illness as did many of his siblings. Unforturnately, we got together and had children before his symptons started showing. Both of the children that I had with him have severe mental illness. Most people know that there is a wide variety of mental illnesses. If she suffers from schitsophenia,
this disorder usually appears between the ages of 15-25 and
it is very difficult to get any form of help for these individuals. Believe me I went to extreme measures, even calling police, state senators, (you name it) begging for help. Always the same reply “Unless she is a danger to herself or others, there is nothing we can do”. One time my daughter threatened my husband
her stepfather (whom she truly loves) with a knife and then slit her own wist, he was able to get the knife away from her, subdue her and call 911, an ambulance and sheriff arrived and took her into the hospital. My husband and I were actually grateful. Thinking that we would now get help and she had lived through it.

Not the case. She was so out of her mind and screaming at the two of us when they took her away, we decided it best to wait until the doctors could sedate her and place her in a mental ward before going to the hospital. We waited about 2 hours. When we arrived no one knew where she was, finally someone informed us that they had sticted up her wist, put her in a cab and sent her away (so much for endanger to herself or others).

The next day one of her friends brought her home, they were terrified just spending one night with her.

It was 4 months and 6 visits to the emergency room, before one of the
doctors finally took pity on us and did a state mental evaluation. She was admitted into a mental facility.

That was about 4 years ago. She is now living at home again and she has good days and bad. Medications help but are never right.
The police will tell you “it is not against the law to be crazy”.

I am not trying to defend Melissa, I am just wondering if when she was ordered by the courts to be under mental supervision, if her doctors put her on medications. There is no magic pill, my daughter went through many different medications and combinations of pills before they kind of got her sane again. Sometimes, these pills can make them violent.

Also, I read that she filed bancrupcy due to medical bills. What were these medical bills for? Were they for her or her daughter?
Was she showing signs of mental illness and trying to get help?
Just a thought.

P.S.
As for my other daughter, I don’t even know where she is.

Sweetpea. My word, I dont even know what to say. I have 2 very close friends with sons that are bi polar, but that is my only exposure and seemingly of no comparative value. I do suspect Huckaby has some serious mental issues that her family is either hiding, or downplaying. Thank you for sharing such a painful experience.
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By: NotBuyingInsane

NotBuyingInsane — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:29:00 +0000

Also, people who are into scrapbooking (as MH has said the suitcase was used for supplies) keep exactos and blades on hand to custom cut paper for their projects. This item would have been on hand at the scene or in the suitcase used for disposal.