Sandra Cantu #3 4/15/09 -4/27/09

[cookie]

Not the dreaded front page..  That is where This ALL began.. 

Uhoh what'd I miss? Lol
B

I started reading and commenting on news reports on the front page like 5 years ago and I have been here ever since..
This site and a few others are more addicting then Crack.. lol
In all actual, I like doing the research and the searches I have done and always have hopes that is somehow it helps others..
So the five years have not been a waste.

Edward,,,you have been here 5 yrs and you only have 733 posts? you must do a lot more research and reading than most of us...tee hee!
Seriously, I have read some of your posts and they are most informative....keep up the good work...

[MuffyBee]

Not the dreaded front page..  That is where This ALL began.. 

Uhoh what'd I miss? Lol
B

I started reading and commenting on news reports on the front page like 5 years ago and I have been here ever since..
This site and a few others are more addicting then Crack.. lol
In all actual, I like doing the research and the searches I have done and always have hopes that is somehow it helps others..
So the five years have not been a waste.

Good post Edward. 

[Tracygirl]

Sandra Cantu Case: Mom of Drugged Child- “CPS Did Nothing to Huckaby”

New Blink on Crime Post:

 http://blinkoncrime.com/2009/04/22/sandra-cantu-c…ing-to-huckabysandra-cantu-case-mom-of-drugged-child-cps-did-nothing-to-huckaby/

Sorry Guys, this one will UBER pizz You Off

WTH???? So CPS did an investigation into the drugging? Do you know if CPS spoke to the little girl or to MH? I can't imagine someone speaking to the child, the child says, yea I remember driving to the park but then I blank out, yet cannot connect the dots, kwim? No way could a complete and comprehensive investigation have taken place.

[momoftwins]

Let this be your inspiration.

Jess,  Pic. is truly beautiful!!  I already had tears from Deenie's pic. I just don't understand, and pobably never will.  The only comfort I can get is knowing nobody can ever hurt her again.  Also, MH will never hurt another child again if convicted.

[cece]

http://www.tracypress.com/pages/full_story?page_label=home&article-Mother%20pointed%20finger%20at%20Huckaby%20early%20on%20=&id=2425522-Mother+pointed+finger+at+Huckaby+early+on&widget=push&instance=home_news_lead_story&open=&

The mother of a girl who went missing in January told police to check out Melissa Huckaby immediately after she heard that 8-year-old neighbor girl Sandra Cantu disappeared late last month.

Lora Polk, 41, came back from work on Jan. 17 to find her 7-year-old daughter gone. Huckaby, 28, took her — along with her own 5-year-old daughter — without permission from the family, said Polk this morning in an interview. Polk called police to report the missing girl. Hours later, she took her to the hospital, where doctors say they found muscle relaxers coursing through her 45-pound body.

Police initially accused Polk of drugging her daughter, she said. When Tracy police Det. Nate Cogburn came to search the family’s home, Polk said at one point he told her, “I think you’re on crank now. I think you gave (the girl) those pills.”

A gag order prevents police from discussing the missing girl’s case because it’s wrapped up in the Cantu murder investigation.

In the police log entry that reports how doctors found Polk’s daughter high on drugs, police say the mother smelled like alcohol. Polk said she did have one beer that night, and Polk said she believes police passed judgment on her because of her spotty past.

Polk has a history of drug abuse, and had a daughter taken away in 1994 by Child Protective Services, which placed the child in a foster home. Polk hasn’t seen that child since. Polk said she’s getting her life together now. She also has a 22-year-old son and an 18-year-old daughter.

Polk said she believes police could have done more back in January. She said her daughter said that Huckaby took her to Wendy’s and gave her water that “tasted like medicine.”

Records show that police searched Huckaby’s house in November, when she was charged with burglary and petty theft, and in April, after Sandra went missing. There are no records that show police searched Huckaby’s home after the missing girl was shown to have been drugged.

Soon after the family reported the missing girl that day, Huckaby drove back with Polk’s daughter about four hours after first taking her, according to Polk and police records. It was early evening at that point, and the little girl seemed fine, Polk said, just emotional because police cars were at her home and her mother was frantic.

It was around dinnertime that police left, so Polk headed out with her daughter for some fast food. But in the car, the little girl started to slump over as if she were falling asleep. She slurred her words.

“She was not acting right,” said Polk. “It was really scaring me.”

Polk went straight to the emergency room at Sutter Tracy Community Hospital. Hours passed, and at about 10 p.m. that night police showed up again. They started peppering Polk with questions and told her that the doctors had found muscle relaxers in her little girl’s body.

Police asked for permission to search Polk’s house.

“Of course, I let them,” said Polk, who lives with her grandparents in Orchard Estates Mobile Home Park, where Sandra lived before she was murdered and where Huckaby lived with her grandparents before her arrest.

Child Protective Services then took Polk’s girl to the Mary Graham Children’s Shelter in French Camp, where they kept her overnight. Polk said she walked home from the hospital by herself at about 2 a.m. on Jan. 18.

Later that morning, they said Polk could have her back if the girl passed a complete physical exam. She did, and the girl was returned home that morning.

Huckaby told a Bay Area TV news station before her arrest that police showed up at her house to question her around 2 in the morning Jan. 18, about the time Polk was walking back from the hospital.

Huckaby also told KPIX that she had permission to take the girl to the park — a claim Polk says is false.

Polk said her daughter barely remembers that day. She did tell her mom that Huckaby took her to three parks and gave her the strange-tasting water, Polk said. The girl doesn’t remember the hospital visit, or her overnight stay with Child Protective Services.

Polk and her family have kept their little girl inside the house since then, fearful of her safety.

Polk said Huckaby stopped by their home days later to see how the girl was holding up, but Polk said she told Huckaby that she never wants to talk to her again.

When Polk and her family heard that Sandra went missing, she said she told police, “I think you need to check out Melissa Huckaby a little bit more than you guys are doing.”

Because of the gag order, it’s unclear how much police investigated Huckaby early on in Sandra’s disappearance.

When Sandra’s body was found 10 days later, on April 6, encased in a black suitcase that Huckaby has said was hers, Polk said she started crying. So did her daughter.

“That could have been my daughter,” Polk said.

Police on Friday took Polk’s daughter to check for signs of sexual assault — months after the incident, Polk said. They found nothing. They also interviewed the girl on Friday.

Polk said Cogburn apologized to her on Friday, and said that he did everything he could do in January.

Today, Polk plans to get a copy of her pharmacy records to show police all the prescriptions she takes — none of which are muscle relaxers, she said.

Police said told the family that they never closed the January case, just suspended it. It’s now part of an ongoing investigation into Sandra’s murder. Huckaby is being held without bail at the San Joaquin County Jail in French Camp on charges that she kidnapped, raped and killed Sandra.

But Tracy police Sgt. Tony Sheneman on Monday said police never arrested anyone in January because they had no probable cause.

It’s a felony to give a child a controlled substance, according to the California penal code.

• Contact Tracy Press reporter Jennifer Wadsworth at 830-4225 or jwadsworth@tracypress.com.

[KYcat]

Sandra Cantu Case: Mom of Drugged Child- “CPS Did Nothing to Huckaby”

New Blink on Crime Post:

 http://blinkoncrime.com/2009/04/22/sandra-cantu-c…ing-to-huckabysandra-cantu-case-mom-of-drugged-child-cps-did-nothing-to-huckaby/

Sorry Guys, this one will UBER pizz You Off

You are right, I am UBER pizzed off.  What is wrong with people?  The system failed Sandra and the first little girl that was drugged by MH.  The officer who is responsible for NOT filing a MP report and NOT investigating MH....... I wonder if he can sleep at night?!!

 

[Blink34]

Sandra Cantu Case: Mom of Drugged Child- “CPS Did Nothing to Huckaby”

New Blink on Crime Post:

 http://blinkoncrime.com/2009/04/22/sandra-cantu-c…ing-to-huckabysandra-cantu-case-mom-of-drugged-child-cps-did-nothing-to-huckaby/

Sorry Guys, this one will UBER pizz You Off

WTH???? So CPS did an investigation into the drugging? Do you know if CPS spoke to the little girl or to MH? I can't imagine someone speaking to the child, the child says, yea I remember driving to the park but then I blank out, yet cannot connect the dots, kwim? No way could a complete and comprehensive investigation have taken place.

I do not know for certain if CPS spoke to Huckaby directly, or went through a detective. They could not prove where the drug came from according to the mom. And since the Mom was at work could not disprove that the child had some sort of permission to go with her.
Here's the kicker, the Police log is wrong. It states that "Laura" did not take the child to the hospital until 5 hours after she got home. WRONG. She was there within 45 minutes tops, "Laura" did not call the cops back until (she say) 3 hours later because that's when the results came back she had benzos in her system. So they read their notes, they think O, nice, maybe she waited 5 hours to clear the kids system. DID NOT HAPPEN . So another let down for this child and Sandra
B

[klaasend]

Not the dreaded front page..  That is where This ALL began.. 

Uhoh what'd I miss? Lol
B

I started reading and commenting on news reports on the front page like 5 years ago and I have been here ever since..
This site and a few others are more addicting then Crack.. lol
In all actual, I like doing the research and the searches I have done and always have hopes that is somehow it helps others..
So the five years have not been a waste.

Ditto to all of the above 

[no rose colored glasses]

Sandra Cantu Case: Mom of Drugged Child- “CPS Did Nothing to Huckaby”

New Blink on Crime Post:

 http://blinkoncrime.com/2009/04/22/sandra-cantu-c…ing-to-huckabysandra-cantu-case-mom-of-drugged-child-cps-did-nothing-to-huckaby/

Sorry Guys, this one will UBER pizz You Off

Thanks, this is very hard to digest, I agree with this woman, perhaps if Melissa had been questioned more, instead of LE just thinking the mom had something to do with her daughter being drugged, Sandra might be here right now. 

[Tracygirl]

Sandra Cantu Case: Mom of Drugged Child- “CPS Did Nothing to Huckaby”

New Blink on Crime Post:

 http://blinkoncrime.com/2009/04/22/sandra-cantu-c…ing-to-huckabysandra-cantu-case-mom-of-drugged-child-cps-did-nothing-to-huckaby/

Sorry Guys, this one will UBER pizz You Off

WTH???? So CPS did an investigation into the drugging? Do you know if CPS spoke to the little girl or to MH? I can't imagine someone speaking to the child, the child says, yea I remember driving to the park but then I blank out, yet cannot connect the dots, kwim? No way could a complete and comprehensive investigation have taken place.

I do not know for certain if CPS spoke to Huckaby directly, or went through a detective. They could not prove where the drug came from according to the mom. And since the Mom was at work could not disprove that the child had some sort of permission to go with her.
Here's the kicker, the Police log is wrong. It states that "Laura" did not take the child to the hospital until 5 hours after she got home. WRONG. She was there within 45 minutes tops, "Laura" did not call the cops back until (she say) 3 hours later because that's when the results came back she had benzos in her system. So they read their notes, they think O, nice, maybe she waited 5 hours to clear the kids system. DID NOT HAPPEN . So another let down for this child and Sandra
B

I came back to post the article from TP but I see it is here already. Detective Cogburn is the one responsible for investigating the child  porn in this town, doesn't exactly make me feel confident. He said he was sorry though to this mom, I bet he is sorry, this is going to be a big fat lawsuit. He should be suspended (without pay!) until a proper investigation into this is done, JMHO.

[cece]

And CPS took the child away for the night.  That poor girl must be so traumatised.

Sounds like MH put something in the girl's drink from Wendy's?

[no rose colored glasses]

cece, thanks for that article, so Melissa took the child to three parks, and gave her a medicine tasting drink  Tracygirl, Det Cogburn is the one investigating the child porn, now that is scary, and I see a big fat law suit heading in that direction. I wonder if the little girl remembers if there was anyone else besides Melissa and Melissa's daughter, at the parks that day?

[no rose colored glasses]

And CPS took the child away for the night.  That poor girl must be so traumatised.

Sounds like MH put something in the girl's drink from Wendy's?

I really wonder if there are photos of this child and Sandra, and who knows what other child that was around Melissa? I can't imagine just drugging a child, and something wasn't done to her, I just don't know what to say.

[Blink34]

That doesnt piss me off nearly as much as her having to have another exam last week to check for sexual abuse.

Edward, or other dudes, may want to "cover your eyes" for this post.

I remember getting my first gyno exam around 12 and I WAS TRAUMATIZED, scared to death, I was clinging to my Mom.

Your gonna look at my what and touch me where???

I have 2 kids so you know I got over that right quick, point is, if she WAS examined that evening why was she subject to it again?

Wanna know what I think? I think they got a lead on #2 and they are NOT taking any chances.

[cece]

cece, thanks for that article, so Melissa took the child to three parks, and gave her a medicine tasting drink  Tracygirl, Det Cogburn is the one investigating the child porn, now that is scary, and I see a big fat law suit heading in that direction. I wonder if the little girl remembers if there was anyone else besides Melissa and Melissa's daughter, at the parks that day?

You're welcome & I agree about Det. Cogburn.

Mellissa's daughter has to have information about a lot of things.  (JMO)

[Tracygirl]

cece, thanks for that article, so Melissa took the child to three parks, and gave her a medicine tasting drink  Tracygirl, Det Cogburn is the one investigating the child porn, now that is scary, and I see a big fat law suit heading in that direction. I wonder if the little girl remembers if there was anyone else besides Melissa and Melissa's daughter, at the parks that day?

Yea he is the one that is leading the Tracy investigation, he said so when the softball coach was arrested. So he has been investigating people downloading child porn in our area, he is well aware of a problem with that here. In Jaunuary, a 7 year old girl is suspected of being drugged and he simply brushes it off as a bad mother drugging her child? Maybe we should check Det  Cogburns computer????

[momoftwins]

Sandra Cantu Case: Mom of Drugged Child- “CPS Did Nothing to Huckaby”

New Blink on Crime Post:

 http://blinkoncrime.com/2009/04/22/sandra-cantu-c…ing-to-huckabysandra-cantu-case-mom-of-drugged-child-cps-did-nothing-to-huckaby/

Sorry Guys, this one will UBER pizz You Off

You are right, I am UBER pizzed off.  What is wrong with people?  The system failed Sandra and the first little girl that was drugged by MH.  The officer who is responsible for NOT filing a MP report and NOT investigating MH....... I wonder if he can sleep at night?!!

 

ITA!!  There's absoutly no excuse, as far as I am concerned.  I would be contacting a good Attorney, and SUE LE if possible.

[cece]

That doesnt piss me off nearly as much as her having to have another exam last week to check for sexual abuse.

Edward, or other dudes, may want to "cover your eyes" for this post.

I remember getting my first gyno exam around 12 and I WAS TRAUMATIZED, scared to death, I was clinging to my Mom.

Your gonna look at my what and touch me where???

I have 2 kids so you know I got over that right quick, point is, if she WAS examined that evening why was she subject to it again?

Wanna know what I think? I think they got a lead on #2 and they are NOT taking any chances.

I totally agree.

Do we have any ideas why she would go to three different parks?
Was she meeting someone there?  Any thoughts?

[cookie]

the little girl who was drugged was placed for the night by CPS  and the mother was forced to walk home by herself at 2 a.m.? (how did they get there?) so, this mom tried to do the right thing by taking her daughter to the hospital...no help for her it seems...then this little child had to have a recent exam?? how awful for her!
someone dropped the ball on this one big time IMO !

[cookie]

That doesnt piss me off nearly as much as her having to have another exam last week to check for sexual abuse.

Edward, or other dudes, may want to "cover your eyes" for this post.

I remember getting my first gyno exam around 12 and I WAS TRAUMATIZED, scared to death, I was clinging to my Mom.

Your gonna look at my what and touch me where???

I have 2 kids so you know I got over that right quick, point is, if she WAS examined that evening why was she subject to it again?

Wanna know what I think? I think they got a lead on #2 and they are NOT taking any chances.

I agree Blinks....this little girl must have been so scared and upset that she had to go through this exam..
how awful for her...