Scott Wesley Buchholz-Sanchez

2009 - 2009
LocationSan Antonio
Age25 days
Cause of DeathMurder
Date of Birth01/07/2009
Date of Death26/07/2009
Visitors2,751 since 01/08/2009
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Please do not make any comments about the child's mother. The details of his murder are bad enough.
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Otty Sanchez, a schizophrenic with a history of hospitalizations, refused to take
medication for her postpartum depression, her son's father said. She'd been going to regular
counseling and had been briefly hospitalized since the boy was born.

But the 33-year-old woman's troubles only became apparent to authorities when they found her before
dawn Sunday, in a house where she had access to samurai swords, screaming that she had killed her
baby. Her 3 1/2-week-old son was dismembered in a scene so gruesome police were left shaken.

"Maybe we missed" warning signs, San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said. "I don't know."

Sanchez was released Tuesday from a hospital where she was treated for self-inflicted cuts to her
torso and an attempt to slice her own throat. The former home health care worker, charged with
capital murder, is being held at Bexar County Jail on $1 million bond. Calls to relatives were not
immediately returned and it was not clear whether Sanchez had an attorney.

Authorities said Sanchez attempted suicide after butchering her newborn son, Scott Wesley
Buchholz-Sanchez, with a steak knife and two swords while her sister and two nieces, ages 5 and 7,
slept in another room.

Sanchez told police that the devil made her kill, mutilate and eat parts of her only child.

Scott W. Buchholz, the infant's father who met Sanchez six years ago while they were studying to be
pharmacists assistants, said although his girlfriend had postpartum depression and only recently
told him she was schizophrenic, she didn't appear unstable. He wants prosecutors to pursue the death
penalty.

"She killed my son. She should burn in hell," Buchholz, 33, told The Associated Press.

Otty Sanchez's medical history is muddled. A family member said Sanchez had undergone psychiatric
treatment and that a hospital called looking for her several months ago. Gloria Sanchez, Otty's
aunt, said her niece had been "in and out of a psychiatric ward."

In May 2008, Otty Sanchez's mother, Manuela Sanchez, called police after her daughter didn't return
from a trip to Austin, saying she was concerned about her daughter's safety. Manuela Sanchez said
she suspected Otty was into drugs and specifically told police she wasn't suffering from any mental
issues.

Buchholz, who is himself schizophrenic and takes six anti-psychotic and anti-convulsive medications,
said Otty had postpartum depression and had been going to counseling after the birth, but refused to
take prescription medication for her depression. Still, "she seemed like a a very caring, loving
mother."

"She held him, she breast fed him. She did everything for him that was nice," he said.

Sanchez was taken to the hospital for depression July 20 and released less than a day later,
Buchholz said. Sanchez told him she was schizophrenic and was going to live with her parents and
sister. Sanchez was arrested at her mother's house, where police found her and the dead infant.

On Saturday, Sanchez brought "Baby Scotty" for a visit but stormed out after Buchholz asked for a
copy of the birth certificate and other documents, Buchholz said. Buchholz called 911 to report that
Sanchez drove away with the infant without properly restraining him in the car, and deputies
investigated it as a disturbance.

"If this guy had given us an indication that she had postpartum depression, or mental defects she
was suffering from, we may have addressed it differently," said Bexar County Sheriff Chief Deputy
Dale Bennett.

Buchholz said he may have told the deputy Sanchez was depressed, but that he wasn't sure.

While schizophrenia generally develops in men in their late teens and early 20s, women tend to
develop the illness, marked by abnormal impressions of reality, later in life.

Most new mothers suffer from postpartum blues as hormones shift after a pregnancy and they're
fatigued handling a new baby. But as many as one-fifth suffer from the more serious postpartum
depression, which includes symptoms like despair and failing to eat or sleep.

Postpartum psychosis is far rarer, affecting only about one woman in 1,000. Women with postpartum
psychosis have delusions, frequently involving religious symbols and a desire to harm their newborn,
said Richard Pesikoff, a psychiatry professor at the Baylor College of Medicine.

He testified in the second trial of Andrea Yates, the high-profile case of a Houston-area mother
found not guilty by reason of insanity after drowning her five children. Similar to Sanchez's claim
that the devil told her to kill her son, Yates told authorities Satan was inside of her and she was
trying to save her children.

"The most common part of postpartum psychosis is the delusional thinking," said Pesikoff. "Often but
not always, it encompasses some type of religious thought."

The risk of developing postpartum psychosis is 50 percent or higher for women with schizophrenia who
are not taking medication, said Lucy Puryear, another psychiatrist who was involved in the Yates
case.


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Only the Best

A heart of gold stopped beating,
two shining eyes at rest.
God broke our hearts to prove,
He only takes the best.
God knows you had to leave us,
but you did not go alone-
for part of us went with you,
the day He took you home.
To some you are forgotten,
to others just part of the past,
but to those of us who loved and lost you,
the memory will always last.

~Anonymous~

Cheryl Feci (GTS Friend) September 27, 2009

For a beautifull Angel xxxx

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Phyllis Thompson September 18, 2009

♥ღ♥ GOD ONLY TAKES THE BEST ♥ღ♥

Gods loving arms enfolded you
with tender loving care,
He saw that you were suffering
as you laid in silence there,
He said the time has come
for you to take a rest,
He held you in his arms and said,
I ONLY TAKE THE BEST

♥ღ♥ GOD BLESS YOU SWEETHEART ♥ღ♥

Cheryl Feci (GTS Friend) September 17, 2009

To baby Scott No one can hurt you anymore and one day you will be reunited with your daddy. Fly with the angels. RIP Scott.

Scott Sorry for your tragic loss. No words will ever take away your pain. May justice prevail. He has not left you. His spirit is all around you and one day you will be reunited.
Regards

Lyn Pritchard September 3, 2009

sweet angel you looked upon your mommy to give you comfort she could not now the angels will guide you to you to all the happyness you never got

Debra Keefe September 1, 2009

So very tragic and a waste of such a precious, innocent life. May God hold him close.

Monica Maclean August 30, 2009

i hope you are at peace now,im sorry this happen to you,your a little star watching over thosae who love you xx

Emma Valentine August 26, 2009

You poor little boy, you didn't deserve this. RIP little one.xxxxx

Gemma Sykes August 22, 2009

You poor little boy, you didn't deserve this RIP little one.xxxx

Gemma Sykes August 22, 2009

God saw that you were suffering
And helpless as can be
So he took you gently in his arms
And whispered, little one come with me
I will take you far away from here
To a place where you are free
From the pain and hurting
Up in Heaven with me
A place when you can play again
And be loved eternally.

Mary Webb (GTS Friend) August 22, 2009
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