Sunday School Teacher to Face Death in Child's Killing

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty, for Melissa Huckaby.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/10/huckaby.death.penalty/index.html

Melissa Huckaby, 28, was indicted last month in the death of 8-year-old Sandra Cantu. Sandra was a playmate of Huckaby's daughter. Sandra had disappeared March 27th from the trailer park where she lived with her parents in Tracy, CA. Her body was found in a pond on a dairy farm stuffed into a suitcase. The suitcase in which her body was found, is said to belong to Huckaby. Huckaby admits that the suitcase was hers but that it was stolen.

Huckaby is charged with kidnapping and murdering Sandra, along with lewd and lascivious acts on a child under 14, and rape with an instrument. In addition to the charges with Sandra's death, Huckaby is also charged with attempting to poison two people. One of which was a 7-year-old girl. A complaint states that she "did willfully and unlawfully mingle a harmful substance with food or drink" with the intent to harm a child. Huckaby is also charged with child abuse on the girl listed only on the report as "Jane M. Doe". Who also happened to be in Huckaby's "care and custody". The other alleged poisoning victim is listed a Daniel Plowman, but no other information was given. The judge in the case put a gag order on all parties involved in the case.

This story scares me. We are supposed to be able to trust the Sunday school teachers. These people are taking care of our children on Sundays. My children go to church every Sunday and to think that someone in the church could do such a thing is appalling. I know that this is not the first time that someone in a church is accused of doing such evil things, but it is still so scary.

Then to think that somehow she had custody of a child and was trying to poison her. Why? What did she hate about these children that she felt that they need to be offed like they are nothing? This breaks your heart that people can do this. I do not understand these people like this. Plus there are so many people out there that do these type of things to children. You never know who you can trust with your children and now to find out that you cannot even trust there Sunday school teachers.