Re: SANDRA CANTU - 8 yo - Tracy CA

cindmo on Wed Apr 29, 2009 7:42 am

Ok I read that this case is going to go all the way back to the 1990's to a town called Wenatchee, WA. IF it does, I have A LOT to say about this as this is where I'm from. (lived in Cashmere most of my growing up life, right next to Wenatchee) Google "witch hunt in Wenatchee" before forming any opinions!! Wouldn't it be a real tragedy if the innocent got sent to prison, and the guilty got away. sick. Also google "bob perez" or "robert perez".

mimi40 on Wed Apr 29, 2009 12:09 pm

cindmo wrote:Ok I read that this case is going to go all the way back to the 1990's to a town called Wenatchee, WA. IF it does, I have A LOT to say about this as this is where I'm from. (lived in Cashmere most of my growing up life, right next to Wenatchee) Google "witch hunt in Wenatchee" before forming any opinions!! Wouldn't it be a real tragedy if the innocent got sent to prison, and the guilty got away. sick. Also google "bob perez" or "robert perez".

I googled this. Very disturbing. I did not see hardly any names that were invovled. Were the Huckaby's?

mom_in_il on Wed Apr 29, 2009 1:50 pm

cindmo wrote:Ok I read that this case is going to go all the way back to the 1990's to a town called Wenatchee, WA. IF it does, I have A LOT to say about this as this is where I'm from. (lived in Cashmere most of my growing up life, right next to Wenatchee) Google "witch hunt in Wenatchee" before forming any opinions!! Wouldn't it be a real tragedy if the innocent got sent to prison, and the guilty got away. sick. Also google "bob perez" or "robert perez".

Whoa, Cindmo, thanks for suggesting the google searches. OMG! I agree with Mimi. very disturbing!!

mom_from_STL on Sat May 02, 2009 5:21 pm

The man who found Sandra
by Justin Lafferty / TP staff
May 01, 2009 | 1049 views

Thousands of volunteers, Tracy police officers and FBI agents searched around the clock earlier this month for Sandra Cantu.

But it was a dairy farmworker just going about his job who led to the discovery of the 8-year-old girl’s body.

Jose Luis Franco, 40, found a suitcase in a dairy lagoon on April 6 containing what was later found to be Sandra’s body and alerted the police. Later this month, the Carole Sund/Carrington Foundation will reward him with a little more than $20,000 for his discovery, according to Tracy police spokesman Sgt. Tony Sheneman.

Franco, who speaks only Spanish, said Friday night through translator Laura Flores that the reward is “like a blessing.”

He has worked for Bacchetti & Silva Dairy north of Tracy for 11 years. He plans to put most of the money in a trust fund for the education of his four children, hoping they can go to college.

Franco said the Tracy police and the foundation told him a week ago that he’d earned the reward money, but he hadn’t told anyone but his wife, Margarita Franco, and his children. He said he was waiting until he actually has the check in his hand, adding that the rest of his family and friends will surely be happy for him when he tells them.

“I thought of spending it (at first),” Margarita said jokingly, through the translator. “We’ll pay for our children’s education. It’s going to come in handy.”

Scott Webb, the foundation’s executive director, said Franco will get the money within the next couple of weeks. Webb said the foundation put up $5,000 initially, and the rest of the money came from donations.

“It’s very important that common people come forward and help to share information to solve the case,” Webb said, “so I’m very glad that they took the time to do that.”

Franco said he was nervous when he first found the suitcase, but after police and FBI told him he wasn’t going to be held responsible for anything, he was able to relax.

The Francos moved to Tracy in 1991 from Jalisco, Mexico, where Jose was born. Before he worked for Bacchetti & Silva, he worked for a farm in Mountain House.

While Franco will receive the reward money, a few psychics have come forward recently, saying they felt the money should be theirs.

Sheneman said that the money will go only to Franco.

“We did not review or utilize any tips or information provided to us by psychics,” he said.
http://www.tracypress.com/pages/full_story?article-The%20man%20who%20found%20Sandra%20=&page_label=home&id=2487077-The+man+who+found+Sandra&widget=push&instance=home_news_lead_story&open=&

mom_from_STL on Sun May 03, 2009 5:02 pm

Sandra Cantu: Church In Washington State Searched

Posted on May 2nd, 2009
by Stone in Op-ed, Society and Culture
Read 822 times.

Clarkston, Washington- FBI searched the First Church of God in Clarkston, Washington. It is a church that Melissa Huckaby’s grandfather Pastor Lane Lawless use to work. There isn’t much detail regarding the search or what prompted it. It is only reported to be connected to Sandra’s murder. It also states that Pastor Lawless has been questioned in the past regarding some allegations that surfaced in the 1980’s. The report is very vague only saying that they are looking into reports of child abuse that may have gone on at that church. Pastor Lawless was questioned about it, no charges were filed. The pastor of the church now went on to say that whatever it was that happened in the 1980’s has deep emotions about that incident and no one ever mentions it.
I wonder what it is that happened and who it happened to? Deep emotions that no one ever mentions. Sounds harsh to me, sad, scarred and traumatized. I do hope whatever it is the person or persons are better now. What about that incident links to Sandra’s murder. Is it more child molestations? How could it be connected to Sandra’s murder? I am riddled with anticipation to hear how this connects. Is it involving Huckaby or one of her relatives? It’s unimaginable at this point what other evil deeds could of gone on back then in regards to Huckaby. I wonder was she a member of the church in Washington? She would have been a lot younger then so I dont imagine its her they are questioning. Church’s and child sex abuse. The Lawless family questioned in both cases.
Sandra’s death has created a safety awareness in the town of Tracy, parents are fully aware of dangers that may lurk where it appears safe. It has been reported that the town is stewarding there children in knowledge and safety due to the unfortunate murder of Sandra. It’s to bad that Sandra had to give her life to open a towns eyes to the sinister danger that was preying on there children. Would Sandra be happy to know that in her death she is helping to better safe guard and educate her friends? Was her life worth that? Did it really have to take the murder of a beautiful harmless adorable child to motivate the parents of Tracy California. It gives a terrible sick feeling inside me to think that a child’s murder is what opened their eyes. I can only hope they never shut their eyes to the possiblity of the unknown dangers again. I raise my children each and everyday to understand stranger danger to utilize their minds to program them that their personal space is their own and no one can be in their personal space. They know that perverts want to hurt them and touch their privacy parts. They are fully aware that people want to touch them and possibly kill them, I save no details with this when speaking to my children.
I always have since dang near day one of their lives. I hope that the children of Tracy can grow and over come this tragedy that befell their precious friend. I hope they all absorb what they are being taught regarding safety and the people who are out to harm them. I hope the parents of Tracy never stop leading there children to create a safer town for not just them but their futures future.
Sandra was an amazing girl. Full of life and love. A singer, a cook, a gardener, Hannah Montana’s number one fan. All gone to soon, I’ve always had a way of thinking that some people are just to good for this earth. I don’t anymore I’d rather have Sandra here with her family. Though on the other hand if that were to be, would Huckaby still be out there under the radar preying, stalking, victimizing? I suppose Huckaby is off the streets now Sandra gone forever her life’s breath taken from her. Watching us all, stewarding us all in safety stranger danger, acquaintance danger, family danger, man danger, woman danger. All equally dangerous.
There is so much to this story that I don’t think we have even began to unravel. I think Huckaby and her morbid tale are going to keep me very busy around here. Sandra I look into her eyes and see so much its to bad that her life was what took a predator off the streets. Truly a sad situation, Huckaby has a long rocky road in front of her one that is destined to reveal more then she cares to remember herself I’m sure. I’m going to lace up my hiking boots and venture on behind her. I want to get to the bottom of this and climb out all dirty just to know why?
God bless you little Miss Sandra Cantu and God bless your family. I find it hard to end my articles on Sandra I just want to write and write about her I don’t know much but what I know is she is in my heart and I love her. She has been grafted into my family like the rest that I am fortunate enough to get to know. Its usually in there death none the less I love them. Please remember your children need you to steward them in safety, knowledge and awareness of all possible dangers.
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TomTerrific0420 on Fri May 08, 2009 1:46 pm

TRACY - Jose Luis Franco wasn't prepared for
what surfaced in the irrigation pond he drained the morning of April 6
at Bachetti & Silva Dairy Farms.
Franco
was enjoying the sunny day when he emptied the ditch surrounded by
miles of grassy fields just north of the Tracy Boulevard exit off
Interstate 205. Until he discovered the suitcase.
Franco,
a dairy farm worker and father of four, had been praying for Sandra
Cantu, the little girl he'd never met but whose face had become
well-known to strangers across California.
Like
many in Tracy, Franco and his family had hungered for information about
the skipping 8-year-old girl who disappeared March 27 from Orchard
Estates Mobile Home Park, about a mile south of Franco's duplex.
Franco tried pulling the suitcase out of the water, but it was too heavy.
Well
aware of the massive search effort that received nationwide attention,
Franco had a feeling about the suitcase and what it contained. He hoped
his gut was wrong.
"I felt like someone had
spilled cold water on me. A chill in my body. I thought, 'Could this be
the little girl?' " Franco said in Spanish.
"It was something terrible. The most terrible day in our lives," recalled Margarita Franco, Jose Franco's wife.
When Jose Franco couldn't lift the luggage, he notified his supervisor, who called police. Then, Jose Franco called his wife.
Margarita
Franco had concerns of her own that day. Her children have attended
Delta Island Elementary School, a campus with mostly migrant children,
and a place that parents call more than a school. It's a community
center. But the Tracy Unified School District, facing severe budget
shortfalls, had decided to close the school - among the smallest in
attendance and the most expensive per pupil to operate.
So
Margarita Franco and several other parents were on a bus, touring area
charter schools. She was focused on the needs of her children and
whether she and other parents might be able to start a charter school.
After the call from her husband, 34-year-old Margarita Franco's thoughts were scattered.
"We wanted to believe there was anything else in there but the body of a little girl," she said.
She
returned home around 3 p.m. Jose Franco returned from work just after 5
p.m. The couple watched television news coverage for updates on the
suitcase, but police had said nothing publicly throughout the day. A
fear gnawed at them.
"I was nervous, because I was thinking about the girl. I wanted to know if she was in there," Jose Franco said.
"He didn't eat that day," Margarito Franco said of her husband.
At 8:50 that night, police announced the sad news. The intense search was over, and Jose Franco's worst fears had been realized.
On
April 10, police arrested 28-year-old Melissa Huckaby, a Sunday school
teacher at a church near the mobile home park and the mother of one of
Sandra's friends.
Huckaby is being charged
with murder and three special circumstances of kidnapping, rape with an
instrument and lewd and lascivious acts on a child younger than 14.
Jose Franco has worked on the farm for 11 years, providing for his family and trying to create a better future for them.
The
Carole Sund/Carrington Memorial Reward Foundation had offered a $21,643
reward for the tip that would lead to finding Sandra. When her body was
found, Tracy police initially said no one would receive the reward;
they'd hoped she would be found alive. But on Thursday, police said
that, after further discussion with the foundation, Jose Franco would
receive the reward.
Sgt. Tony Sheneman, a
Tracy police spokesman, told reporters that the farm worker was
reluctant at first and asked that the reward money be given to Sandra's
family. But that's not the organization's policy, so the money went to
him, said Scott Webb, director of the foundation.
Webb
said the foundation has given Sandra's family more than $8,000, which
was donated by people across the nation. Tracy Crime Stoppers also
raised $10,000 for the family.
The Tracy Police Department had called a news conference to present the farm worker with the reward money.
Jose Franco decided a half-hour before the public event to accept the money in private. He wanted to avoid media attention.
"We
gave some interviews," Margarita Franco said in Spanish while her
husband was at work on Thursday. "We thought that's when (the media
attention) would end."
The Francos are from Jalisco, Mexico, but immigrated to work in Tracy in the mid-1990s.
Margarita
Franco said she and her husband are in the process of becoming legal
residents, but their four children - Alondra, 3; Jorge, 5; Maria, 8;
and Miguel, 11 - are U.S. citizens, all having been born in Tracy.
The parents plan to use the reward money to set up college funds for their children.
They also have become more protective. "We don't even let them play outside anymore," Margarita Franco said.
As
she cooked lunch Thursday, Margarita Franco said the family is trying
to move on with normal life, but they have forever been touched by
Sandra.
"We are content because the money
will help us, but we are heartbroken because what happened is something
very depressing," Margarita Franco said.
"Do you believe a person who has found a human being dead will ever be the same?"

mom_from_STL on Mon May 11, 2009 1:04 am

Sandra Cantu: Reward Given

Posted on May 10th, 2009
by Stone in All News, Op-ed, Society and Culture
Read 1,064 times.

Tracy, California- Jose Luis-Franco was given the reward money on Thursday May 7th for finding Sandra Cantu. Jose was given the reward in private at his request. He received a little over $21,000. He said that he plans to use it for his kids college fund.
Jose made the discovery on April 6th of a suitcase found at the bottom of an irrigation pool he drained while working on a farm. Knowing to call police if there was anything suspicious due to Sandra’s disappearance Jose called the police. Federal investigators and law enforcement swooped down on that suitcase like locust. Combing every bit of the area leaving no stone unturned. It took investigators at least four hours to open the case to examine its contents. Later on in the evening investigators had a press conference revealing to the world that the suitcase held the body of little Miss Sandra Cantu.
Time stood still all over silence, pain, terror, fear, sickness and heartache. Jose is a hero a modest man not boastful or out for glory. Too shy to have a public ceremony to accept his reward. I hope that he can turn the forever thoughts of being the one to find Sandra into a positive. I find it hard to find positives in such a horrid crime. The only positive I have come to accept is a predator is off the streets. There is lots of speculation that Sandra’s killer Melissa Huckaby is covering up for someone else. There is also speculation that she is a victim herself of some type of sexual abuse at the hands of a predator. None of it verified just chatter around the house. Huckaby is a predator who is where she belongs. I hope that this talk of her being a victim doesn’t create sympathy causing her to receive a lesser punishment. Don’t get me wrong I sympathize for children who are being abused or were abused. Huckaby is a full fledged adult who knows right from wrong, there is a point in our evolution, our growth where as adults we discern the difference. Huckaby has no care for the difference no value to ones right to live and breath freely, innocently to walk without the care or worry of a predator.
The man who found Sandra has to live with that forever being the one to find the case that contained her body. Huckaby has to live with her deeds forever also. I hope he can put this in front of him to create good in his life. He deserves more then the twenty one thousand they awarded him with. I hope Huckaby can find some inner peace for her own demons. Her next court date is just a couple a weeks away.
Thank you Jose Luis-Franco for bringing Sandra home. God bless Sandra Cantu and her family.
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mom_in_il on Mon May 11, 2009 4:07 pm

Sandra Cantu Case: Reward Given To Farm Worker

Posted by Blink Sunday 10 May 2009 10:36 pm

Tracy, CA– The Dairy Worker who attempted to retrieve the remains of 8 year old Sandra Cantu, Jose Luis Franco, has been rewarded. In a last minute decision to not appear publicly, and a in a private ceremony Thursday morning, Franco was presented with $21,643 in reward money for reporting seeing a large black suitcase floating in a dairy farm irrigation ponds where he is employed, on April 6.

On Wednesday Tracy police issued a press release inviting the media to a public ceremony to honor Franco while he received his reward, but he apparently changed his mind on Thursday morning and opted for a private ceremony.

“He’s an average individual that doesn’t want the spotlight,”
said Webb. “He’s very concerned about how this could
affect him and his family.”

Police Sgt. Tony Sheneman said during the press conference that “cases involving missing children are very difficult and never easy to solve.”

The reward was presented on behalf of the Carrington/Sund Foundation. Scott Webb, executive of the Carrington/Sund Foundation:

“He still came forward and did not hesitate,”
said Scott Webb, executive director of the Carole Sund/Carrington
Foundation, which publicizes missing persons cases and provides support
for the families of missing people. “This signifies how a case can
change based on one person’s information — one man’s decision to make
the right choice brought closure to a grieving family.”

http://blinkoncrime.com/2009/05/10/sandra-cantu-case-reward-given-to-farm-worker/

TomTerrific0420 on Fri May 15, 2009 2:58 pm

TRACY, Calif. -- Child pornography was found inside multiple homes at the Tracy mobile home park where Sandra Cantu lived, KCRA 3 has learned.Cantu,
8, disappeared from Orchard Estates Mobile Home Park in late March. Her
body was found more than a week later inside a piece of luggage
submerged in an irrigation pond.Investigators searched a number of homes at the park during their investigation into Cantu's disappearance and death."There
were other trailers in the trailer park where child pornography was
found, and it was a challenging environment," a source close to the
investigation told KCRA 3.Because of a judge's gag order, the source could not elaborate on what, if any, connection this has to Cantu's slaying.The source also would not say who or how many people are now under investigation for child pornography.Cantu's
neighbor, Melissa Huckaby, has been charged with the girl's death and
may ultimately face the death penalty if convicted.

TomTerrific0420 on Fri May 15, 2009 3:51 pm

by Lechristine9 on "tothecenter.com"

One good thing has come out of the Sandra Cantu case: Lesbian rape can be taken seriously now.

That’s probably the reason this story has become national news. It’s
not your typical rape and/or murder case. This time it’s a woman who
raped a girl.

It’s something out of the ordinary. Just like with Laci Peterson. God
knows how many men have murdered their wives. It was because Laci was
pregnant with her son that made this story more heartbreaking, and thus
headlined across the nation. (To this day, Scott Peterson still claims
he is not guilty while rotting away on Death Row).

This time, it’s lesbian rape, that has us surprised.

Discovered in a suitcase floating in an irrigation pond in Tracy,
Calif., the body 8-year-old Sandra Cantu, said to have been raped with
a foreign object. While the autopsy results are currently sealed,
Melissa Huckaby, the 28-year-old Sunday school teacher charged for the
rape and homicide, has not made a plea. She is due back in court on May
22.

A female raping a female? Not something, many people could accept as
true. It’s similar to when most of us had a double take upon hearing of
the Massachusetts priest who raped an eight-year-old boy. In our minds,
these things just don’t happen.

Yet, gay rape between males is easier to understand. On the other hand,
“How could a vagina rape another vagina?” That’s the common thought
when it comes to women assaulting women.

From She Stole My Voice: A Documentary about Lesbian Rape, consider
this “Society views male sexual organs as penetrating, destructive and
female sexual organs as receptive and nourishing, respectively. With
the right context, female sexual organs can be just as destructive, or
even more destructive, than male sexual organs,” said Justine Chang and
Armand Kaye, directors of the documentary.

I don’t know in what framework female sex organs are technically more
destructive than male organs, when it comes to assault on other
females. Nevertheless, the point is that lesbian rape is real. It is
not a sex fantasy for porn watchers to enjoy. It happens, and it
traumatizes just as much as male perpetrators.

Yet, I can understand how this reality can be hard to swallow. Although
many of us hate to admit it, we still live in a male-dominated society.
We haven’t had a female president yet. There are still men who earn
more than women for doing the same work—even though it’s been more than
40 years since the Equal Pay Act has taken effect. In addition, yes,
most rapists are men.

But people are people. You’re a person whether you are a guy, girl, or
hermaphrodite. If one sex rapes, so can the other. There’s practically
nothing humans aren’t capable of. 106 years ago, we couldn’t fly. Now
it’s practically a crime-like routine. Just look at our carbon
footprint—that’s all the evidence needed.

Thus, is the Sandra Cantu case bizarre? Not really. Is it bad? Of
course it is. Can there possibly be any good? If you look at the silver
lining, yes. Finally, America is opening its eyes to the threat of
lesbian rape.

TomTerrific0420 on Fri May 15, 2009 3:55 pm

Tracy, CALIFORNIA (BNO NEWS) – Shocking new details about the
way 8-year-old Sandra Cantu from Tracy, California died in March
emerged on Sunday, a case that grabbed national headlines.
28-year-old Melissa Huckaby is suspected of murdering the young
girl, but has also been charged with kidnapping and rape. Her body was
found inside a suitcase in an irrigation pond but officials are no
longer releasing information on the case because of a gag order. But
new details emerged on Sunday, claiming Huckaby raped Sandra with a
screwdriver before she died, a source told BNO News. The source said
the information is not expected to be released until after the trial.
The source told BNO News that Sandra Cantu’s father, Danny Cantu,
has said the Clover Road Baptist Church, where Huckaby’s grandfather is
the pastor, is actually a cult with 13 members. Danny also said,
according to the source, that he did not kill Sandra and that he would
take a lie detector test to prove it.
Danny said he had connections “due to his past” and that the person
who killed his daughter “would be taken care of.” He further said the
pastor of the church had nothing to do with the girl’s murder and that
Sandra’s DNA was found on a cot at the church.

mom_in_il on Fri May 22, 2009 6:00 pm

HUCKABY IN COURT- DANIEL PLOWMAN AND JANE DOE NEW VICTIMS -3 MORE CHARGES ADDED BY DA

Posted by Blink

Tracy, CA– Late yesterday afternoon, Prosecutors filed 3 new charges against Melissa Huckaby. On the eve of her hearing today to file her plea on the current charges for the rape, molestation and Murder of 8 year old Tracy resident Sandra Cantu.

Huckaby will now be facing additional charges of a single count of child endangerment, and 2 felony counts of furnishing a harmful substance although the substance in question is not identified.

In an earlier report on blinkoncrime.com, the Mother of the 7 year old girl, named as Jane Doe in the charges, specified that benzoiates were found in her daughters system after she was taken from the Orchard Estates Mobile Home Park without permission, and returned several hours later after being located by police.

In both counts of alleged poisoning, the complaint says Huckaby “did willfully and unlawfully mingle a harmful substance with food or drink with the intent that (it) be taken by a human being.”

The identity of the second victim named in the charges is Daniel Plowman. It is alleged Mr. Plowman was drugged by Huckaby in March 2009.

Blinkoncrime has learned that Plowman was arrested on March 3, 2009 for using or being under the influence of a controlled substance. It is not known if this Daniel J. Plowman is related to a Daniel Jonathan Plowman, age 62, who is listed as an absconded registered sex offender on the Megan’s Law Sex Offender Registry.

Daniel’s myspace can be found here.

It is also unknown if the new changes will affect the defense strategy for Public Defender Sam Behar during the hearing today at 1PM PST.

Check back to blinkoncrime.com for breaking developments on this story

http://blinkoncrime.com/2009/05/22/sandra-cantu-case-huckaby-in-court-daniel-plowman-and-jane-doe-new-victims-3-more-charges-added-by-da/

TomTerrific0420 on Sat May 23, 2009 1:36 am

The California Sunday school teacher
accused in the shocking kidnap, rape and murder of 8-year-old Sandra
Cantu now is being accused of secretly poisoning two people, including
another little girl.
The new charges allege Melissa Huckaby, 28, gave "a harmful substance" to a
7-year-old girl in January and an adult man in March, according to the
complaint.
The little girl, identified only as Jane M. Doe, has since recovered from the Jan. 17 alleged
poisoning. The man, Daniel Plowman, hasn't been located, according to
the complaint filed Thursday.
Huckaby's relationship with the two isn't clear, and the type of toxic drug used wasn't disclosed.
Huckaby was in court to enter a plea Friday in San Joaquin County Superior
Court to charges that she raped, kidnapped and murdered Sandra Cantu on
March 27. But the judge continued the matter until June 12 after public
defender Sam Behar asked for time to review the new charges and more
than 1,000 of pages of evidence recently provided by the prosecution.Sandra disappeared in March after she was last seen skipping away from her mobile home in Tracy, where she lived a few
doors down from Huckaby. The girl and Huckaby's daughter were playmates.
Her body was found stuffed in a suitcase retrieved from the bottom of an irrigation pond 10 days after she vanished. Huckaby,the daughter of a local priest, was charged last month with murder;
rape using a foreign object; and lewd or lascivious conduct with a
child under 14.
In the new complaint, Huckaby is accused of a single count of child endangerment and two
felony counts of furnishing a harmful substance.
According to the complaint, Huckaby "did willfully and unlawfully mingle a
harmful substance with food or drink with the intent that (it) be taken
by a human being," the Stockton Record reported.
Outside the courtroom Friday, Deputy District Attorney Robert Himmelblau
described Plowman as a "victim and a witness" but would not comment
further on his connection to Huckaby.When asked if the new charges related to the
Cantu case, Himmelblau said, "You can add counts that don't necessarily
relate to the main count if they are same class of crime or are
connected."
Himmelblau declined to elaborate, citing the gag order in the case.
During the brief session in a packed courtoom, Huckaby sat calmly in a red
jail jump suit and shackles. She did not speak except to answer "yes"
when the judge asked whether she understood the case was being further
delayed.

mom_from_STL on Sat May 23, 2009 11:10 pm

Sandra Cantu: More News On Huckaby

Posted on May 23rd, 2009
by Stone in All News, California News, Op-ed, US News
Read 203 times.

California- Seems Sandra Cantu’s murderer Melissa Huckaby is in some more trouble regarding the little girl she is suspected of poisoning back in January and now an adult male. It has been reported she poisoned an adult male back in March. What? So we have now murder, rape, lewd and lavicious acts, suspicion of arson and also suspicion of poisoning another child and an adult male. My goodness it just seems to keep coming for Huckaby doesn’t it? Amazed I am amazed at this woman and her life choices. I mean arson and well arson is the minor out of them all. She has a lot to face in her way through the California justice system, Huckaby has many demons that are going to be revealed during her time in our eye.
It brings a tear to mine to think that to reveal this monster Little Miss Sandra Cantu had to pay with her precious life, Sandra was amazing so bright and beautiful I love Sandra can’t help it she is one of my own. Huckaby is a monster, she is a predator anyone free of their own self is her prey. She doesn’t sound like she cares if it is a child or adult who she violates. I am not sure of what happened to the man she poisoned I can only imagine though. Huckaby to me is a challenge how a mother can do such things to a child, how can a woman do that to a man. I am old fashioned I guess. I’m hypnotized by her and her story, the reasons behind her actions what makes her up inside. How is she different from us, besides the obvious what is it that caused her to glitch. It’s all so interesting to me, her past her present it don’t matter all of it when did this begin? There has to be more, Melissa Huckaby is a trove of secrets I’m sure we are just seeing the tip of what lies beneath.
This new charge of the girl in January that I have previously reported on and now a man in March, Daniel Plowman is his name. Investigators said that Huckaby used a “harmful substance” to drug both the victims. I had reported previously that the girl was drugged with a muscle relaxer that the doctor who examined her at the ER told her parents that it could cause black outs. Law enforcement has stated they don’t yet have enough evidence for the man who was drugged. It’s really too bad that she feels the need to violate a human being in such a manner, to give them a drug to render them useless and have her way with them. It’s disgusting and unacceptable, it’s a violation to ones rights to live free to be safe. Even an adult male was not safe from her reach, I wouldn’t doubt that there is more to this then we know. I wonder if any of it will make it to light. Sends shivers up my spine to even fathom what she is hiding, why talk if no one knows, is the way I see it. My goodness gracious, Melissa is a work, that’s for sure. Mysterious, frightening if you ask me, poisoned a grown man? A child murdered and raped? For petes sakes is that enough? I have a feeling it’s not, there’s most likely more.
I have to shake my head at it, we are going to get good and dirty in Huckaby. What does that lady think? How could she do this to another soul? Go crush a spider if you need to feel power learn to hunt ,shoot a deer, gut it skin it, hang it, butcher it, that’s power as a human to fend for yourself to feed your own family. Learn to fish, that’s power for a human not to drug and violate. Confusion over ones self power destroys life. We are not meant to act like that, no limits creates monsters when there is a lack of empathy there is a lack of respect for life for ones right to be free of harm from predators, they don’t have the right to prey on us, on our children. It is a gross misuse of self power. Huckaby is not right, I am at a total loss for what she could be thinking, who does this? What mother acts in such a way?
There is also word that the father of her daughter is seeking legal custody of their child together. It has been reported that soon Huckaby will be in court fighting for custody, also that the father has hardly been in the child’s life. Huckaby has many trials to attend to. She is suspected of some of the most horrendous crimes I have seen a woman stand for in my lifetime. Huckaby was arraigned today she entered no plea and has another court appearance scheduled for June 12th, her attorney requested more time to go over discovery evidence and evidence regarding the silver Cadillac and evidence taken from a home computer. There are over a thousand pages of discovery to go through. It leaves such a pain in my heart this whole thing, poor Sandra taken so soon in life just after her birthday, her mother to live with the pain forever with the details of her death in her heart it must be excruciating to bare.
I see Huckaby at her original arraignment and I see her cry I wonder why now why not before she killed Sandra? Why not have a shred of care, emotion or empathy then when she was doing what she done to Sandra? Why not before the act of drugging anyone or the act of murder? It is mind boggling to say the least, no plea entered wonder what that is for? Maybe to strike a deal, wonder what kind of deal she could get, admit the crime spare your life type thing? As long as she is put away in a deep dark prison who cares? Not me, maybe she will give me an interview someday after her imprisonment? I would love to sit on the phone and talk to Melissa, not because I pity her or want to make a new friend, but because I am a mother first and for most I put nothing before my children nothing.

I could never harm a child or drug them as she has, she is well interesting to me. How? Why? Don’t you have respect for humanity for a life, ones soul, our lamplight it isn’t there to be preyed upon and violated, it our right to be free to live to walk amongst creation without any worry about who is watching us. It shouldn’t matter who is out there watching us it never should matter, oh but it does and it always will as long as people believe they have the right to push their desires onto us. It’s a sick display of power confusing ones self rights amongst humanity. Keep out of my space in other words stay away from me and my kids shoot stay away from everyone, no one has the right to do what Huckaby has done to others. It is appalling to me that she feels she has that right. Interesting, I have to know.
Huckaby has her next court appearance on June 12th. God bless Sandra Cantu’s family, with Mother’s Day just passing I hope that her mother and aunts and grandmothers and sisters were all able to hold up in light of their loss. It would have been hard for me. Please read and sign this petition it was created the day after Sandra was found it was created by love, fear and hope for a better future for our kids it needs a lot of signatures and even though children will be violated before it is passed, someday it will pass and then predators will really have to fear what is coming to them when they sexually assault our children. Be the voice your children don’t yet have the instincts to use. Stand up for them they need YOU.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/change-sex-offender-laws

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mom_from_STL on Sun May 24, 2009 2:30 pm

Man faced DUI after Huckaby allegedly poisoned him
by Jennifer Wadsworth
May 22, 2009 | 2022 views

Police on March 3 arrested a man on suspicion of driving under the influence hours after murder suspect Melissa Huckaby, 28, allegedly poisoned him.

Daniel Plowman, 36, of Hayward, pulled into the drive-through at McDonald’s, 3430 N. Tracy Blvd., to order some food, but passed out at the wheel, according to police logs.

According to an employee who called the police station at 1:30 a.m. March 3, Plowman fell asleep in the drive-through lane, awoke, paid, got his food and crashed into a wall. His car ended up under the golden arches, according to the dispatcher’s log.

Police showed up, arrested him and got a local towing company to impound Plowman’s gold Ford Tempo.

The fast food restaurant is a few minutes by car from Orchard Estates Mobile Home Park, where Huckaby lived with her grandparents before her April 10 arrest on charges that she kidnapped, raped and killed 8-year-old Tracy girl Sandra Cantu.

Records show that Plowman was never charged with a crime in San Joaquin County.

Prosecutors on Thursday added three charges against Huckaby: That she allegedly drugged a man and a child, and endangered a child.

A gag order prevents anyone officially involved in the case to talk about it to reporters, so the relationship between Huckaby and Plowman remains unclear.

But according to dispatch logs, Huckaby took a 7-year-old girl to a park for four hours without her mother’s permission on Jan. 17. When they got back, the girl was high on benzodiazepine, police logs show. But no arrest was made that day. Police later said that they had too little evidence to file charges.

The girl’s mother Lora Polk, 41, told the Tracy Press that the incident shook that family’s trust and that they asked Huckaby to never talk to them again. When Sandra went missing on March 27, Polk said she immediately warned police about Huckaby.

Huckaby appeared today in court, where a judge further delayed her arraignment until June 12 because the defense needs time to review new evidence, including 1,000 pages of new discovery, said San Joaquin County Public Defender Sam Behar.
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SANDRA CANTU - 8 yo - Tracy CA