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

Piper wrote:I am just sick over this information.....drugs, a rolling pin, a bloody noose and a suit case. And this all happened in 8 minutes, my god.

I'm with you on that! wth?
And that "she didn't suffer" comment, YES, she did!!!!!!

She is the devil - and WHY must she LIE to the mother now - that Sandra didn't suffer and wasn't molested are lies - she must have known that physical evidence would definitely prove otherwise...

I am torn on the release of evidence - I do feel sympathy towards Sandra's family and wish for them that the evidence could have remained sealed - yet, the release of such information is what keeps our justice system and us as a nation - FREE - in essence. Now we see that Melissa wasn't unjustly charged - although life behind bars w/o parole isn't a just punishement... What she did to the most innocent of victims was so cruel - we wouldn't dare treat an animal the way Sandra was treated. I still think about sweet little Sandra - and I hope that her family does get the closure that they seek...

Wow, on the first video, they put the video of Sandra skipping past the security camera
for Huckaby to see.

That was powerful! Make Huckaby watch it over and over!

But I feel so awful for Sandra's family that that video clip is the last moments they have of her alive & like the Aunt said, seeing that Sandra was so close to home, and none of them could protect Sandra from Huckaby, that was sad.

I hurt so badly for them, I just can't wrap my mind around it.

I fully understand why the family didn't want the details to be public knowledge. They live this over and over in their minds, it never goes away. They probably can't even discuss those details among one another, because it rips them apart inside. It's a feeling of protection and defense, protecting Sandra, her privacy and dignity, if you will. And protecting her siblings from seeing it in print, either now or years later.

On the other hand, it is our system and if the facts in a case of someone being sentenced to life in prison remains unknown, anyone of us could be imprisoned without just cause.

And another thing, this was premeditated on Huckaby's part. I believe like the rest of you, life in prison is not punishment enough. I guess I really don't know what would be........but I could think of medieval punishment for her.

It's stated that most children abducted by sexual predators are killed within two hours.......Sadly, this just goes to prove what can happen within a matter of minutes in an abduction of a child for the sole purpose of satisfying a deviant non-human being.

Judge unseals some documents in Cantu murder investigation; Huckaby gets life sentence

Kris Vera-Phillips
June 14, 2010



TRACY, CA - After Melissa Huckaby was sentenced to life without parole for killing 8-year-old Sandra Cantu Monday morning, a judge agreed to release more information on Cantu's murder investigation by unsealing the grand jury transcription, some exhibits and search warrants.

The documents are expected to be released to the public on Friday.

However, San Joaquin County Judge Linda Loftus decided to keep the autopsy pictures sealed as well as other grand jury exhibit items.

Read more: http://www.news10.net/news/article.aspx?storyid=83591&provider=top&catid=188

I think that what this woman did to Sandra was so horrendously indescrible that Sandra's parent's are blessed to have Mellissa Huckaby plead guilty ....... the indescribable details of this crime will not come out........ they have buried their much beloved child who died at this monstor's hands .... their grief is unfathonable, they do not wish this to be played over and over again in the public domain. More power to em.

"A horse-drawn hearse with a small pink casket inside, led the funeral procession for 8-year-old Sandra Cantu. The casket signed by her second-grade classmates. About 200 family members and close friends attended the funeral."




I strongly suspect the local "grandfather's church's" involvement in this. Perhaps Melissa Huckabee was "reinacting" something that happened to her. We may never know. But do we really need to know? I think not.
Respectfully submitted,
kh

Mom says prison sentence is just in girl's murder

By The Associated Press
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 at 4:56 a.m.

STOCKTON, Calif. — The mother of an 8-year-old California girl whose killer was sentenced to life in prison Monday says she thought the punishment was enough.

Maria Chavez is the mother of Sandra Cantu, whose body was found in a suitcase last April. A Sunday school teacher, Melissa Huckaby, has pleaded guilty to kidnapping and murdering her.

Chavez said on NBC's "Today" show on Tuesday that she "can't forgive somebody that took my little girl from me."

She says she found no comfort in Huckaby's apology and says it's "difficult to understand" why she killed Sandra.

Chavez had asked that court records in the case be sealed, but the judge is considering releasing the search warrants and grand jury transcripts. The family members referred questions about such a move to their lawyer.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jun/15/mom-says-prison-sentence-is-just-in-girls-murder/

Police Over Look Suitcase Containing Body of Sandra Cantu

Posted: 5:45 AM Jun 16, 2010

With the gag order now lifted in former Sunday school teacher Melissa Hucakby case, we're learning more about the Sandra Cantu investigation and how a mistake in the search delayed the body being found.

According to a California Police Department each team was assigned specific areas team leaders then reported back to a supervisor who tracks everything on a map.

That system broke down when one team was at a holding pond on white-hall road and saw a suitcase floating among manure and urine.

And that discovery went nowhere.

"The person out there at the time, the team leader, said that's way too small for a child to be in," says Tony Sheneman of the Tracy Police Department.

This was after potential suspect Melissa Huckaby gave police a note she claimed to find indicating Sandra was locked in a stolen suitcase and thrown in the pond.

The next day a farmer found the suitcase with Cantu's body that had been dead for several days.

Now Tracy Police say the delay wouldn't have made a difference

http://www.wbko.com/news/headlines/96458469.html

That's a pretty big mistake if you ask me........

A child is missing, then the note and you don't pull a suitcase out of a holding pond to check it?

Inasmuch as I despise the details of Sandra Cantu's murder being released, it is important to (I can barely type this) note the evidence of the rolling pin (we will just leave it at that). This is proof that there was a sexual molestation prior to the murder.

Melissa Huckaby states at sentencing through her (sniff) tears that "To this day she doesn't know why she did this but it wasn't a sexual molestation".

The evidence proves otherwise.

Melissa Huckaby sexually molested Sandra Cantu after she kidnapped Sandra and before she murdered Sandra. Melissa Huckaby does not want to be put away for life with the (accurate) label of "Child Molester". As many know, I was taken from my front lawn at age 3, to the end of the street into the bushes where I was molested, but thankfully (is that the right word) I was returned to my home and able to "live out my natural life". I believe Sandra Cantu had to die to fulfill Melissa Huckaby's sexual desire. I hate child molesters, and I hate the ones that kill their victims to keep them quiet EVEN MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I suppose Melissa states that Sandra didn't suffer because Melissa administered some of her anti anxiety psych meds to her young innocent victim. It's unfortunate that Melissa didn't commit suicide before she kidnapped, raped and murdered young innocent Sandra Cantu.

I'm covered in goosebumps and all I can say now is

Oh, eva, I did not know what you suffered as a child... and how it must affect you to this day. I'm so sorry for what you had to go through. You seem like a very strong, level-headed woman, maybe in spite of your past.

I agree with you about the evidence. As much as it will hurt Sandra's family (and my heart just breaks for them), it does need to be released in order to prove Melissa the monster she truly is. All while she is tearfully saying she is sorry, she had the nerve to ask Sandra's mother for forgiveness.... and tell her Sandra did not suffer and that she did not sexually molest her. TRUST ME, Melissa..... Sandra DID suffer.

Melissa's tears didn't touch me..... she is only sorry because she got caught, and knows she will pay for the rest of her life the consequences for torturing and murdering a beautiful little girl. Melissa is getting off easy, if you ask me.

Oh thank you Snaz. Yer nice..... I appreciate your comments about what happened to me when I was three years old. Yes, I am affected by what happened to me. In a number of different ways. One interesting way is that until I had a counselling session with an employee assistance program counsellor, just a few years back, I always felt I was three years old (I'm mid 40's) and everyone else was all grown up. I could elaborate, but I imagine you get the idea. There's other stuff too, but, that which does not kill me makes me stronger!!!!!! I've survived so much in my life up to this point! Drowning in Hawaii at age 11, wicked harrassment at work, but I got to live past Caylee's age.

I got to have my two kids (THEY get to be alive), my husband, watch my daughter win a trophy in Irish Dance the other night!!! Walk in the sunshine this very day! The list goes on AND ON!!!!!

Melissa Huckaby deserves to be labelled a Child Molester. Now that she's cut her hair, she even looks the part more........ Somehow.........

Eva everytime I think of you as a 3 year old I get a little stab in my throat.......

Melissa Huckaby is a nasty vile beast. She drugged another little girl before Sandra. She is a violent sexual predator to the core. I agree, she is getting off easy.

Eva - I'm so sorry to have learned of what you went thru at the age of 3 - that's just horrible - I have a precious little 3 yr old girl and can NOT imagine what you and your family went thru.
As a mother, I have to say that I would rather have my child ALIVE under the most horrible of circumstances than dead - and that's why I'm with you when I say that I hate child molesters, but the ones that kill their victims are so much worse.
Melissa Huckaby has taught me that NO ONE can be trusted with our most prized possessions - our children. So many times we think our children are safe, because they are with a woman - but obviously, that is not the case. That's what I have learned from this case, and hopefully others will respect Sandra's memory and do more to protect their children from monsters like Melissa...

Eva I'm sorry to hear what you went through as a kid. I don't understand how people can be so evil.

It doesn't matter what Huckaby said in her apology. Nobody is going to believe that she's not a sex predator.

eva, just want to give you a big (((((hug))))) and say what a terrific person you are, despite the horrible thing that was done to you. It NEVER should have happened!