Why are the pious the worst of the immoral lots?
"Sunday school teacher is held in child's death; Calif. 8-year-old found in suitcase" by Terry Collins, Associated Press | April 12, 2009
TRACY, Calif. - Police said yesterday after arresting a Sunday school teacher that they still didn't know the motive for the killing of an 8-year-old girl whose body was found in a suitcase dumped in an irrigation pond. Melissa Huckaby, 28, a local minister's granddaughter, was arrested late Friday....
Investigators had not expected that the suspect would turn out to be a woman. "It's unusual for it to be a woman statistically and according to the FBI," Sergeant Tony Sheneman said at the press conference. Discovering it was a woman and a member of the tight-knit Tracy community who knew the family was "a double blow," he said. "Today's going to be a very difficult day for everyone to digest that."
"There's still a lot of work to be done in the next several weeks to ensure that Miss Huckaby pays for what's she's done," Sheneman said. "There are no other suspects in this case. We do not anticipate any other arrests."--more--"
"Arrest in girl's killing rocks California town" by Marcus Wohlsen, Associated Press | April 13, 2009
TRACY, Calif. - Police and residents were shocked when the suspect in the killing of an 8-year-old girl found stuffed into a suitcase turned out to be a woman, the mother of the slain girl's best friend. The motive in the killing had not been determined.
Melissa Huckaby, a Sunday school teacher and granddaughter of a minister, was on suicide watch at the San Joaquin County Jail, where she remained in custody yesterday without bail on suspicion of kidnapping and killing Sandra Cantu. Sandra's body was found in Huckaby's suitcase in an irrigation pond nearly a week ago, police said....
Huckaby, 28, had attended the second of several vigils for the slain girl, Sheneman said....
Woah!
Several of Huckaby's relatives appeared briefly before reporters. One man, who would only describe himself as a member of the family, read a statement saying the allegations against Huckaby were completely out of character. The man was joined by other relatives, including Huckaby's grandfather, Clifford Lawless, who is pastor of the nearby Clover Road Baptist Church, which was searched by authorities after Cantu's body was discovered.
Huckaby taught Sunday school at the church and lived with Lawless in the Orchard Estates Mobile Home Park that also was Sandra's home. Huckaby's uncle, John Hughes Jr. of Whittier, told the Associated Press his niece was from a good home, but had hit a rough patch in her life and had moved in with her grandparents in Tracy to get past her troubles.
Huckaby grew up in Orange County and was a "pretty normal kid," he said. As the eldest of nine grandchildren, she played "mother hen" to the younger children when the family got together for the holidays. After graduating from high school, Huckaby's path appears to have become rockier. She married, had a daughter and was divorced in a few short years. She had difficulty finding and keeping a job, partly owing to the challenges of single motherhood, Hughes said....
Are we supposed to feel sorry for her? WTF?
What about the INNOCENT LITTLE GIRL?
