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

[Nut44x4]

JUSTICE FOR SANDRA !!

[Foggy Dew]

Amen to justice for Miss Sandra, Klaas.

I'd just like to say that we are gonna prob be speculating to a greater extent w/this case for CA doesn't have he "Sunshine" laws like FL.   Curiosity is killin' me, but I can deal w/it.

Foggy

[klaasend]

GOODNIGHT ALL!

[k9ohana]

Just look at that happy, hopeful, smiling face.

[ChihuahuaMom]

I have a few questions

was there ever a rummage sale at the church?

Does anyone else think MH did not act alone or she is taking the rap for someone?

ok, I am off to work but will pop in to read today's posts.

[klaasend]

I have a few questions

was there ever a rummage sale at the church?

Does anyone else think MH did not act alone or she is taking the rap for someone?

ok, I am off to work but will pop in to read today's posts.

No rummage sale at the church that I could find.  There was a garage sale the morning of 3/28 about 6 houses away from Fred Williams home.

[ChihuahuaMom]

ty Klaasend

[no rose colored glasses]

Good Morning, I'm very curious to why LE went back to the home and church, and if they took something. If Melissa said it was an accident, I have a feeling she said other things as well, and that is what brought LE back.

[MontgomeryMonkeyMellie]

Good Morning, I'm very curious to why LE went back to the home and church, and if they took something. If Melissa said it was an accident, I have a feeling she said other things as well, and that is what brought LE back.

Good morning!
Last I heard Melissa was claiming to be innocent.  I would be interested to know what LE took.

[klaasend]

Good Morning, I'm very curious to why LE went back to the home and church, and if they took something. If Melissa said it was an accident, I have a feeling she said other things as well, and that is what brought LE back.

In one of the online sites it said the reason was to look for more evidence tying Melissa to that note Melissa said she got regarding the luggage and irrigation pond.  Melissa allegidly admitted she wrote it.

[no rose colored glasses]

Good Morning, I'm very curious to why LE went back to the home and church, and if they took something. If Melissa said it was an accident, I have a feeling she said other things as well, and that is what brought LE back.

In one of the online sites it said the reason was to look for more evidence tying Melissa to that note Melissa said she got regarding the luggage and irrigation pond.  Melissa allegidly admitted she wrote it.

Thank-you

[MontgomeryMonkeyMellie]

Good Morning, I'm very curious to why LE went back to the home and church, and if they took something. If Melissa said it was an accident, I have a feeling she said other things as well, and that is what brought LE back.

In one of the online sites it said the reason was to look for more evidence tying Melissa to that note Melissa said she got regarding the luggage and irrigation pond.  Melissa allegidly admitted she wrote it.

Wow...Thank you.
All missing/murdered children reports are tragic, but the horror of what happened to little Sandra has really gotten to me.  Maybe it is because my daughter is close to Sandra's age, looks a little like her and we are active in our church too.  Maybe it is the video of her skipping down the street not a care in the world and her Sunday School teacher grabbed her and hurt her so terribly.  My heart just really aches.

[fatcatlurker]

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[JessStar]

Good Morning, I'm very curious to why LE went back to the home and church, and if they took something. If Melissa said it was an accident, I have a feeling she said other things as well, and that is what brought LE back.

Good morning!
Last I heard Melissa was claiming to be innocent.  I would be interested to know what LE took.

Yeah, she's innocent alright:

CBS: Huckaby Swallowed Knife Blades Before Arrest
The Sunday school teacher accused with raping and murdering 8-year-old Sandra Cantu attempted suicide days before her arrest in the case, according to CBS News.

Melissa Huckaby was hospitalized after swallowing three X-Acto knife blades, reports CBS News correspondent John Blackstone. She remains under suicide watch after being formally charged yesterday with kidnapping, raping and murdering her daughter's playmate. . . .

[AZSunny]

I am going to bring Jazztunes post from last night over here this morning for those that missed it.


Hope you won't mind if I jump back in again to share my work experience with drug issues and people's weight.  No one drug profile fits any single patient; there are always exceptions.  However, in my experience (13 yrs in-pt Psychiatric RN, 10 yrs Emergency Rm RN prior to that) I've dealt with LOTS of drug addicts, in all stages of their addictions.

Most hard-core drug users (including crystal meth) are thin or regular weight.  Seldom see one overweight.  Being addicted, they live for their drug.  They'd rather do drugs than eat.   There is a notable exception though.  Cocaine users have voracious appetites.  Will eat anything they can find.  Gets so bad we have to set limits.  Otherwise, we'd run out of food on the unit.

On the other hand, anti-depressants and the newer anti-psychotics can definitely cause weight gain.  Again, each person is different, as well as the effect of each med, but it's one of the major causes for med non-compliance, especially among our female patients.  Biologically, some of these meds are believed to cause a change in carbohydrate metabolism, which alters how the body uses and/or stores it.  It's not unusual to see (returning) patients having gained large amount of weight in a relatively short period of time.  Not rare at all.

People have raised questions about statements made in the court room about Melissa having a medical evaluation.  This is standard and required with all of our patients.  Every one of them is required to have a medical evaluation within 24 hours of admission.   

There are many medical illnesses that cause and/or contribute to mental/emotional illness.  Sometimes, a medical condition is discovered that really HAS caused the illness.  (Brain tumor, closed head injury, and other neurological diseases.)  Just to name a few.

So I would expect that Melissa is under heavy-duty medical care right now, especially since she just got out of ICU for internal bleeding.

As for other psych diagnoses that she may or may not have, it's true we don't have enough information about her.  We're all speculating.  But someone who could kill a child is not your everyday Sunday School teacher!

Would someone who knew her all along be able to tell?  Have red flags?  Maybe or maybe not.  If she were bipolar, I doubt if she could have hidden the mood swings (and crashes) for very long, if at all, because bipolar is a brain chemical disorder.  Depression alone can be masked if the person really works at it.  But my depressed patients do NOT tell me they want to kill a child.

A sociopath can dupe others around them.  Heck, sociopaths make a career of fooling people.  They can be charming and  so smooth.  Say the right things.  Fake all the emotions.  Is Melissa a sociopath?  We don't know.

As I said, I'm speculating like everyone else.  No diagnosing intended.  (So please don't read more into this than that.)  No matter what her ultimate "diagnosis" is, I don't believe she acted alone either.  I think the child-porn ring is going to end up figuring heavily into this outcome.  The only good thing that may come out of all of this might be some other children being saved from molestation, abuse, and death...

Thanks again to all who are providing those valuable links and news stories. 

[fatcatlurker]

http://cbs5.com/local/sandra.cantu.arrest.2.983156.html?hbx.hra=SanFrancisco-LAN&hbx.cmp.c1=story+90283820&hbx.cmp.c3=641&hbx.cmp.c2=728+x+90+90283820&hbx.cmp=AFC-San  maybe already posted also?

Apr 13, 2009 10:53 am US/Pacific
Police: Woman Murdered Tracy Girl In Church
  Police crime scene tape surrounds Tracy's Clover Road Baptist Church.
 

CBS News has learned that police in Tracy believe 8-year-old Sandra Cantu was murdered in the Clover Road Baptist Church by her accused killer, Sunday school teacher Melissa Huckaby.

[Catbert]

Js

[Catbert]

Good Morning, I'm very curious to why LE went back to the home and church, and if they took something. If Melissa said it was an accident, I have a feeling she said other things as well, and that is what brought LE back.

Good morning!
Last I heard Melissa was claiming to be innocent.  I would be interested to know what LE took.

Yeah, she's innocent alright:

CBS: Huckaby Swallowed Knife Blades Before Arrest
The Sunday school teacher accused with raping and murdering 8-year-old Sandra Cantu attempted suicide days before her arrest in the case, according to CBS News.

Melissa Huckaby was hospitalized after swallowing three X-Acto knife blades, reports CBS News correspondent John Blackstone. She remains under suicide watch after being formally charged yesterday with kidnapping, raping and murdering her daughter's playmate. . . .

I had heard from twitter that she swallowed some blades and that was the reason for internal bleeding - nice to have it confirmed

[cookie]

what a darling, sweet little child Sandra was...that video of her carefree and skipping will haunt me forever....So damn unfair that her little life was snuffed out before she even got to live the rest of it! I am comforted somewhat that it appears that she was much loved and had a happy 8 years with her family....

[no rose colored glasses]

Good Morning, I'm very curious to why LE went back to the home and church, and if they took something. If Melissa said it was an accident, I have a feeling she said other things as well, and that is what brought LE back.

Good morning!
Last I heard Melissa was claiming to be innocent.  I would be interested to know what LE took.

Yeah, she's innocent alright:

CBS: Huckaby Swallowed Knife Blades Before Arrest
The Sunday school teacher accused with raping and murdering 8-year-old Sandra Cantu attempted suicide days before her arrest in the case, according to CBS News.

Melissa Huckaby was hospitalized after swallowing three X-Acto knife blades, reports CBS News correspondent John Blackstone. She remains under suicide watch after being formally charged yesterday with kidnapping, raping and murdering her daughter's playmate. . . .

Oh wow, and now this brings me to the next important question, in a phone interview her grandma said that Melissa has been taking psychotropic meds, what has she been taking, did she go off the meds, or was she on the wrong meds. http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090415/A_NEWS/904150329