Sandra Cantu Body To Be Exhumed? – The body of Sandra Cantu may be exhumed if the attorney representing Melissa Huckaby gets his way.
The lawyer for Melissa Huckaby, a Northern California Sunday school teacher charged with murdering and raping the 8-year-old girl who was her own daughter’s playmate, said this week he wants the child’s body exhumed.
Public defender Sam Behar, the lawyer for 28-year-old Melissa Huckaby who faces the death penalty in the shocking murder case, asked a judge to have the remains of little Sandra Cantu exhumed to conduct a second autopsy.
Behar argued Thursday that he wants his own examination of the body done since the rape allegation against Huckaby stems from the finding that the victim had suffered “genital trauma.”
Behar urged the court to act quickly because the body was deteriorating, saying a second autopsy conducted by an independent pathologist would take no more than a week.
“I believe and allege such an examination is extremely crucial and material to Ms. Huckaby’s defense,” Behar wrote in a court filing.
San Joaquin County Superior Court Judge William Murray Jr. refused to rule on the request Thursday, saying that decision rests with another judge assigned to Huckaby’s case.
The exhumation request came on the same day thousands attended a public memorial for Sandra at a Tracy high school and just one day after the girl’s family laid her to rest in a mausoleum.
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April 20th, 2009 at 3:00 am
Great site.
April 20th, 2009 at 4:00 am
Another disgusting decision, Leave the little girl to rest, has one autopsy not been enough?? Her murder is clear as of who perpetuated it with little or no remorse. Her little body and soul does not deserve that. Let her rest in peace and punish the guilty ones (that are still living) accordingly. Please, make justice to this little girl, instead, courts should be looking to find ways to prove these insane people guilty of such crimes and punish them accordingly. I personally do not think that there is enough punishment for them, maybe burn alive forever? I don’t know, but if hell punishes that way; I agree.
April 20th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
really great read
April 20th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
That’s just awful! First the creepy mom kills her daughter’s playmate and then a stupid attorney demands they dig up Sandra’s body the day after she’s laid to rest. Makes you long for the good old days when a lynch mob would storm the jail and string up perverted killers from the nearest tree!
April 21st, 2009 at 2:37 am
There’s a special place in Hell reserved for that lawyer…right next to his client!
April 21st, 2009 at 6:30 am
this is so sad…
really feel bad for her mother to have to endure even the possibility of this.
rest in peace sandra.
April 21st, 2009 at 8:04 am
Huckaby is a sick creepy killer who deserves to die. She drugged little Sandra and then molested her. Ugh!