Melissa Huckaby Molested Sandra Cantu

Melissa Huckaby Molested Sandra Cantu – More horrible news surfaced today about Sandra Cantu being molested by Melissa Huckaby before she was killed.

Prosecutors said Monday they may include rape and molestation charges, in addition to murder, in the case against the Sunday school teacher accused of killing the 8-year-old Northern California girl and stuffing her body in a suitcase.

Melissa Huckaby, 28, was arrested Friday on suspicion of kidnapping and murdering Sandra Cantu. She is scheduled to be arraigned on Tuesday.

Formal charges have not been filed, but San Joaquin County Deputy District Attorney Robert Himmelblau said Monday a murder charge against Huckaby could include the special circumstances of rape with a foreign object, lewd and lascivious conduct with a child and murder in the course of a kidnapping.

A decision on which, if any, special circumstances to include in the charges hasn’t been made, but a conviction on any of them would make Huckaby eligible for the death penalty or life in prison without parole, Himmelblau said.

The district attorney’s office hasn’t determined whether to seek the death penalty, he said.

On April 6, Sandra’s body was found in a suitcase by farmworkers draining an irrigation pond located only a few miles from Sandra’s home in the Orchard Estates Mobile Home Park.

Huckaby lived with her grandparents five doors down from Sandra in Tracy. The little girl was a playmate of Huckaby’s 5-year-old daughter, Madison.

Police have not said how, where or why Sandra was killed, but Sgt. Tony Sheneman said investigators believe she acted alone.

“We have not been provided with one (a motive),” Sheneman said Monday. “We don’t know why a mother would kill another mother’s child.”

Neither Himmelblau nor Sheneman would provide details on any evidence leading prosecutors to consider the sexual assault allegations.

“I was hoping that wasn’t the case,” Sandra’s aunt, Angie Chavez, said through tears. “I’m in shock. The whole thing is unimaginable.”

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Sandra Cantu Arrest

Sandra Cantu Arrest – An arrest was made in the Sandra Cantu murder case of Sunday school teacher Melissa Huckaby, pictured below, with the body found in a suitcase owned by Huckaby.

Before the Sndra Cantu arrest was made, Melissa Huckaby had failed to mention in police and FBI interviews that she supposedly had a black suitcase stolen from her driveway on March 27th, the same day Sandra Cantu disappeared after playing with Huckaby’s own daughter.

Ironically, in trying to cover her tracks, the 28-year old Sunday school teacher told a local newspaper Friday about the supposed suitcase theft.

The published report in the Tracy News drew renewed attention to Huckaby from police Friday and Saturday because the coincidence was highly suspicious.

During the course of her 5-hour police interview late Saturday night, Huckaby gradually cracked under the pressure and confessed.

Tracy police now say that Huckaby’s story about the suitcase being stolen is a lie, and Sgt. Tony Sheneman confirmed the suitcase Sandra Cantu was found in belongs to Melissa Huckaby.

“She was very relaxed for a bit, then she became very emotional, then she became relaxed again, then she became resigned to what was happening,” Sgt. Sheneman told reporters during a 3:00 a.m. press conference.

Sheneman refused to elaborate on any possible motive as to why Melissa Huckaby killed Sandra Cantu.

Huckaby is the granddaughter of Lane Lawless, who is the pastor of Clover Road Baptist Church in Tracy, California where she taught Sunday school. Lawless lives in the same mobile home park where Cantu disappeared.

Huckaby was taken to the San Joaquin County Jail, where she was booked on charges of kidnapping and murder.

And that’s the latest news on the Sandra Cantu arrest.

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