Otty Sanchez confessed to killing Scott Wesley Buchholz Sanchez on Sunday with a steak knife and two swords before mutilating the corpse and eating body parts that included the brain, nose and toes, police said.
She has been charged with capital murder and remained under 24-hour observation Monday at University Hospital, where she was treated for self-inflicted knife wounds.
The father of the baby now is asking that she “pay the ultimate price.”
“She was a sweet person and I still love her, but she needs to pay the ultimate price for what she has done,” said Scott W. Buchholz, who referred to his child as “baby Scotty.” “She needs to be put to death for what she has done.”
Sanchez’s relatives, however, are hoping authorities will take into consideration her history of mental illness, which included a recent diagnosis of postpartum psychosis.
“It’s just tragic and unbelievable what happened,” said Greg Garcia, Sanchez’s first cousin who considers her a sister. “She was a good, hard-working person, but she had been diagnosed with schizophrenia last year.”
I am a college student. We will see how this goes.
