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Title: Slain girl's family express 'shock and disbelief' at neighbor's arrest {Lady Sunday School Teacher Muders Kid}
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cnn
URL Source: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/11 ... arrest/index.html?iref=topnews
Published: Apr 12, 2009
Author: cnn staff
Post Date: 2009-04-12 05:59:05 by IndieTX
Keywords: None
Views: 700
Comments: 18
CNN) -- Relatives of slain California 8-year-old Sandra Cantu expressed "shock" Saturday at news that a neighbor -- a Sunday school teacher whose daughter was a playmate of Sandra's -- was arrested in the girl's death. "Just utter shock and disbelief," Sandra's aunt Angie Chavez told CNN affiliate KOVR. "I can't imagine a mother doing this to a child." Melissa Huckaby, 28, was booked into the San Joaquin County Jail early Saturday and faces charges of kidnapping and murder in the death of Sandra in Tracy, California. Sandra was last seen March 27 in the Tracy mobile home park where she lived with her family -- the same mobile home park where Huckaby lives. The girl's body was found Monday, stuffed into a suitcase submerged in a pond at a dairy farm. "We have to live the rest of our lives without Sandra. [Huckaby] is in jail. She can still see her little girl grow up," Sandra's uncle, Joe Chavez, told KOVR. He said the family is "shell-shocked" and hopes that in time they can learn to trust people again. "Who can you trust at this point?" he said. "Who do you know?" A police spokesman told reporters Saturday he "couldn't begin to theorize" a motive for Sandra's death. Watch police discuss the arrest » Huckaby is the granddaughter of Clifford Lane Lawless, pastor at the Clover Road Baptist Church, which was searched as part of the investigation, Tracy police Sgt. Tony Sheneman told reporters. Huckaby taught Sunday school at the church, he said. In addition, Huckaby's 5-year-old daughter was close friends with Sandra, who often played at Huckaby's home. Earlier Saturday, Sheneman said he did not believe Huckaby had retained an attorney. In a Friday interview with the Tracy Press newspaper, Huckaby acknowledged owning the black rolling suitcase that held Sandra's body, but said she reported it missing the day before the girl's body was found. She said it disappeared the same day the girl was last seen. Don't Miss KCRA: Suspect is pastor's granddaughter WTXL: Arrest made in murder case Police search church for clues to girl's slaying California girl, 8, disappears after playing with friend "There's been a lot of speculation on the news about what happened to my suitcase," she told the newspaper. "It's not my granddad's. It's mine, and someone took it." Police said Huckaby lives in the same mobile home complex where Sandra lived with her family; the Tracy Press reported Huckaby lives with her grandparents. Police noted "inconsistencies" between comments Huckaby made to the newspaper and a previous statement she gave authorities, Sheneman said. It was one reason police asked her Friday to come to the station to be interviewed again. She drove there about 6 p.m. Friday, he said. Authorities believe Huckaby lied about the suitcase being missing, Sheneman said. Asked whether authorities believe Sandra's death was planned, Sheneman said the question is "not something I can answer right now" but "we do have an indication." He said authorities have found where they believe the girl was killed, but would not divulge that location to reporters. "I couldn't begin to theorize what her motive is," Sheneman said of Huckaby. During the Friday night interview with police, Huckaby was "very relaxed for a bit, and then she became very emotional, and then she became relaxed again" before appearing resigned, Sheneman said. He declined to say whether Huckaby had confessed, but said "she revealed enough information that we had probable cause to arrest her." Huckaby was booked into the San Joaquin County Jail about 3:25 a.m. (6:25 a.m. ET), according to the county sheriff's Web site. She is set to appear in court Tuesday. Police took Huckaby into custody about 11:15 p.m. Friday (2:15 a.m. ET Saturday), Sheneman said, but she chose to continue talking with them for more than two hours. Authorities told Sandra's family of the arrest about 2:15 a.m. local time, he said. "They were in disbelief." Watch neighbors remember slain girl » Police have had contact with Huckaby before, but she does not have a record of violence, Sheneman said, but did not elaborate. He said no other arrests are expected in Sandra's death. Citing court records, the Tracy Press reported Huckaby pleaded no contest January 9 to a felony charge of second-degree commercial burglary and a misdemeanor charge of property theft with a prior theft, burglary or robbery. A criminal complaint says she was jailed in Los Angeles County on a property theft conviction in 2006 and that she attempted to steal from a store in November 2008. According to the complaint, she is on probation in San Joaquin County and is due back in court April 17. Asked about the court records, Huckaby told the newspaper it wasn't her and that she did not know why the address and cell phone number in the court documents match her own. "I don't know what to say," she said. "That's not me." Police believe that by the time Sandra was reported missing, she was already dead, Tracy Police Chief Janet Thiessen told reporters Saturday. "There was some speculation early on that [the suspect] would be a man," Sheneman said Saturday. "It's unusual for a woman -- statistically, according to the FBI -- to be involved in anything like this." The day Sandra was last reported seen, she returned home from school, kissed her mother and left to play with a friend who lives nearby. A short time later, wearing a pink Hello Kitty T-shirt and black leggings, she left to go to another friend's home, according to a family spokeswoman. Police said the girl's clothing helped them identify her body. Huckaby told the Tracy Press that Sandra stopped by her home that day to ask if she could play with Huckaby's daughter, but Huckaby refused because she wanted her daughter to pick up her toys. Sandra left for another friend's home, Huckaby told the newspaper. How Sandra died has not been made public. An autopsy was conducted earlier in the week, but CNN affiliate KRON-TV said results are not expected for weeks. Thiessen said Saturday any autopsy information as well as search warrants filed in the case remain under seal.
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#1. To: IndieTX (#0)
This doesn't shock me. Not at all. I expect this is more common, and this bitch just was unlucky and got caught. And she was a "teacher". How unusual is that, a "christian teacher" that was a wolf. Shocking! /sneer/ At least this "christian" c$^t had the balls to murder that kid herself instead of having someone do it by proxy like they normally do. Fucking hypocrites. If cops only concentrated on true crimes like this, I'd have no problem with them. .
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. It's easier, safer and more profitable for cops to convince themselves they're real cops by engaging in bullshit like traffic tickets, drug busts, and shooting dogs.
Sad but true. You forgot about beating the crap out of little girls, or more common, raping little girls. 15-16 year olds are prime targets for that. And there is so much more... surrealworld.wordpress.com/category/bad-cop-news/ .
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and if they spent less time on trying to convict somebody - anybody and more time on researching, investigating and then convicting the person(s) that committed the crime. Unfortunately, our legal system is not about convicting those who committed the crime but more about "winning vs. losing".
It might be a little early to pronounce her guilty. They haven't said what the evidence is yet. But if she's guilty she sounds like yet another psycho case. Who knows, maybe more pharma stuff is involved.
True. But I also dont buy the "but she is a christian sunday school teacher" as a defense or a basis for disbelief that she could do this.
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Agreed.
I don't get the emphasis on the "Sunday school teacher." So what? Just about anyone can go to church and teach Sunday School. I mean they are not vetted like government employees(and look at them!!!!!!!). I found it rather odd to make that the headline--Sunday School teacher arrested. The journalists are using this as though it is her avocation; it is NOT! The term "Woman" would be just as apropo as... Sunday School Teacher. Matter of a fact "Woman Arrested" would be more to the point, because that is the first thing I thought when I heard that a woman was the suspect. I had some perverted male pinned for the crime. More importantly, it is a horrible crime, and my condolences go the family of this child. I am glad it was resolved so quickly if they do indeed have the right perpetrator.
Have you seen the multiple stats and research I've posted about the rates of domestic abuse and child MURDER committed by males and females? Contrary to the lies and ommissions of the media, odds favor a female perp. Law Enforcement Against Prohibition You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom.~~William Wallace ALAS, BABYLON. It's over. Last one here turn out the lights.
I dunno. The omission of the fact would be more suspicious than its inclusion. The irony is inescapable. Like the fact that Stalin was educated by priests or that Alfred Rosenberg spoke Yiddish. I don't see this as a black mark against Christians or Sunday school teachers. There are saints and sinners - and sometimes demons - in every persuasion and profession.
Join 2x4 Tuesdays & protect your RKBA. Agreed.
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom.~~William Wallace ALAS, BABYLON. It's over. Last one here turn out the lights.
If it was her I would not at all be surprised to find out that she was on one or more anti-depressants - like that woman down in Texas who killed her 5 kids - she was on TWO anti-depressants at the max dose.
""I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology...It's importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda...Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated." Bertrand Russel, Eugenicist and Logician
Indie, I have not seen your stats, but I am well aware of female criminals. Yes, I know female felons are underreported or that females often times receive lighter sentences than males who commit similar crimes. However,when you see a crime of this sort you often think sexual assault and if that is the case, more often than not the one repsonsible is male. I don't know what the specifics of this case were. They will come out eventually. I think most people know at this point, that people who go to church are not necessariy Christian or even nice. Wasn't the BTK killer president of his church congregation? Even he wasn't touted as a church leader. This information came out in the daily press releases, but no headlines like Sunday School teacher were used.
Haven't seen the reports, but you could well be right. There are those that love the purchase they get on this angle.
Join 2x4 Tuesdays & protect your RKBA. "This was an anomaly in the murder of a child," police Sgt. Tony Sheneman said at a news conference Saturday in this northern California town. "Finding out that it is a woman who is responsible for Sandra's kidnapping and murder, and then finding out it is a member of the community is another blow." FBI statistics show women are involved in just 7 percent of murders of any sort. Solo killings of children by women are even more unusual. "It's very unusual for women to be involved in an abduction and murder of a child," said Candice DeLong, a retired FBI profiler based in San Francisco. "Sometimes we see this when the woman is working with a male partner. It does not appear to be the case this time. But this was not a sexually motivated crime."
"Deadlier than the Male:" http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi? ArtNum=98358
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom.~~William Wallace ALAS, BABYLON. It's over. Last one here turn out the lights.
There is a very common view that religion makes people better. And thus when religious people do evil things, its a man bites dog story. Despite the fact that there is no basis to believe religion makes people better.
Oh, really. Gauttama Siddhartha civilized a continent - with religion. The Red Cross is a religiously inspired organization. As is the Salvation Army. Even the Scientologists have gotten into the act - they were at the forefront of the Tsunami relief a few years ago and were the only VOLUNTEER group invited back by FDNY to their first commemorative event, because of their relief work and aid to Firefighters on the scene, for the fallen off 911. Again, religion in all its best forms stands out as motivating humanity toward man. Remember Mother Theresa? Christ's original teachings, not the perversions pushed by temporal powers, were of a peaceful and loving religion. Please show us the equivalent production by Atheism and anti-religionists. You make the mistake, like many others, of equating ALL religion with the actions of SOME who claim a religious belief. Anyone who has studied philosophy and logic can tell you that SOME is not ALL. To make the mistake of condemning all for the actions of some is unsound reasoning.
""I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology...It's importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda...Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated." Bertrand Russel, Eugenicist and Logician
#2. To: PSUSA (#1)
If cops only concentrated on true crimes like this, I'd have no problem with them.
Dancing Turtles and Bouncing Boobs...that's Turtle Island.
#3. To: Turtle (#2)
#4. To: PSUSA (#1)
If cops only concentrated on true crimes like this, I'd have no problem with them.
#5. To: PSUSA (#1)
#6. To: Pinguinite (#5)
It might be a little early to pronounce her guilty.
#7. To: PSUSA (#6)
But I also dont buy the "but she is a christian sunday school teacher" as a defense or a basis for disbelief that she could do this.
#8. To: IndieTX (#0)
#9. To: Julz (#8)
I had some perverted male pinned for the crime.
The reason sunday school was emphasized was to expose the fallacy that kids (or children; or men in relationships) are safe because they're with someone who has the label "female" OR "sunday school teacher" or "christian" appended to their names.
"Corporation: An entity created for the legal protection of its human parasites, whose sole purpose is profit and self-perpetuation." ~~ IndieTx
#10. To: IndieTX (#9)
The reason sunday school was emphasized was to expose the fallacy that kids (or children; or men in relationships) are safe because they're with someone who has the label "female"
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#11. To: randge (#10)
(Edited)
"Corporation: An entity created for the legal protection of its human parasites, whose sole purpose is profit and self-perpetuation." ~~ IndieTx
#12. To: Pinguinite (#5)
Who knows, maybe more pharma stuff is involved.
#13. To: IndieTX (#9)
Have you seen the multiple stats and research I've posted about the rates of domestic abuse and child MURDER committed by males and females?
#14. To: IndieTX (#11)
Complaining about "the emphasis"
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#15. To: Julz (#13)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jShwaEwnjM6vOvofWmYoGZnQnDPgD97H3FT80
~ Robert the Brus - "The Declaration of Arbroath"
#16. To: litus, julz (#15)
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"Corporation: An entity created for the legal protection of its human parasites, whose sole purpose is profit and self-perpetuation." ~~ IndieTx
#17. To: Julz (#8)
I don't get the emphasis on the "Sunday school teacher." So what?
#18. To: Rhino369 (#17)
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