Reported by: Delaine Mathieu
Email: DelaineMathieu@woaitv.com
Last Update: 7/30 7:09 am
SAN ANTONIO -- Otty Sanchez remains in jail accused of murdering, mutilating, and cannibalizing her 3-1/2-week-old son Scott Wesley Sanchez Buchholz early Sunday.
Sanchez had apparently been receiving treatment for mental issues for some time. Many people want to know why Sanchez was allowed to take the baby home from the hospital if she was so sick. Even Sanchez, herself, reached out for help and was turned away.
"I thought she was an excellent mother," said Baby Scotty's paternal grandmother Kathleen Buchholz ."She was very caring, and she tried very hard."
Buchholz says she never saw a single red flag that little Scotty was in danger.
"Not at all," Kathleen Buchholz told News 4 WOAI. "If I thought that, I would have been the first one on the phone with CPS."
Buchholz says the doctors are the ones who should have known there could be trouble, especially when Sanchez tried to get help a week before the murder.
Buchholz said that on July 20, Sanchez went to Centro Med Clinic off of Walzem Road on the Northeast Side with Scotty in tow. Sanchez wanted to see her therapist. It was determined that she was having a mental breakdown and needed medical attention. So, a private ambulance was called, and Sanchez was taken to Metropolitan Methodist Hospital's emergency room with Scotty. However, she was released that night.
"That's mind boggling to me. That's mind boggling to me. I don't understand," added Kathleen Buchholz.
Then, on the day before the murder, Buchholz says Sanchez came over to talk to Scotty's father, Scott Buchholz. The two got into an argument, and Sanchez took off with Little Scotty unbuckled in the car seat in the front seat of her car.
At that point, Buchholz and her son both believed Sanchez was not in the right state of mind. They called the Bexar County Sheriff's Department, who came over and filed a report. But because Sanchez lived inside the city limits, they said they couldn't do more unless she came back.
Buchholz said Sanchez had calmed down by that evening and seemed to be okay. Unfortunately, that was not the case.
It is believed Sanchez had been taking the anti-psychotic medication called Abilify, but stopped taking it once she found out she was pregnant.
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