Re: Sandra Cantu -- Found Deceased 4/6/09 -- Melissa Huckaby Pleads Guilty To Murder

by Piper on Mon Mar 07, 2011 1:25 pm

Tracy events to honor Sandra Cantu

March 07, 2011 12:00 AM

TRACY - Sandra Cantu would have been 10 years old Tuesday. She would have celebrated over cake and food with her family.

Two years after her kidnapping and murder, her loved ones want to share that celebration with the Tracy community. And they want to remember Sandra's blissful spirit rather than her tragic end.

On what would have been her 10th birthday, family members are holding an all-day party for Tracy's children - a sort of birthday hop - through various stops where children can enjoy free frozen treats, gymnastics play, safety education and more.

"Sandra was such a happy little girl. I don't want her birthday to be a sad day," said Janet Anderson, Sandra's cousin and the event organizer.

Anderson said her niece's birthday celebration will be open to Tracy residents to thank them for their support.

"I just hope that it brings smiles to their faces and they enjoy the day," she said. "It's a celebration."

Read more:

http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110307/A_NEWS/103070310

by Piper on Tue Mar 08, 2011 8:33 am

Sandra would have been 10 years old today......

by Ann - Tx on Tue Mar 08, 2011 10:45 am

"Happy Birthday" to Sandra Cantu
in Heaven!

♥

by Julie on Tue Mar 08, 2011 10:51 pm

Happy Birthday Sandra.

afro

by Justice4all on Wed Sep 07, 2011 5:26 pm

Sandra Cantu's autopsy files ordered sealed for good

By Sophia Kazmi
Contra Costa Times
Updated: 08/17/2011 06:55:46 AM PDT

The autopsy report for Sandra Cantu, the 8-year-old Tracy girl who was killed in 2009, will forever be sealed from public view.

Under a 2010 state law, Sandra's family requested the report be sealed. The sealing is not automatic. A request must be made by a qualified family member -- a biological or adoptive parent, spouse or legal guardian -- after a person is convicted and sentenced for committing the crime.

Sandra was drugged, sexually assaulted and killed, then stuffed into a suitcase and dumped in an irrigation pond about two miles from her Tracy home on March 27, 2009. Her neighbor, 30-year-old Melissa Huckaby, was arrested on April 10, 2009, four days after the suitcase surfaced.

Read more: http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_18693629