I have mixed feelings about this but for certain the psychiatrists should have all the details so they could delve into her mind/emotions and see how it played out in her young life throughout adulthood.

I am sure the abuse has been happening since the beginning of time, the media has a way of bringing it out in the open and get to the truth or distort it.

The Vatican for example, sex abuse among children is not new, the physical abuse is not new. thanks to the people who with the help of the media had the courage to "blow the whistle" on the abuse. The Pope, fortunately, spoke the truth, whereas others turned their blind eye and swept it under the rug.

The media helps people be aware of society's ills but they do go too far in some cases by playing it up bit too much. Not all media, though.

Media shouldn't encourage morbidity since it leads to insensivity, i.e. many bystanders not responding to cries of victims.

I don't want to know the details, I don't think the Cantu family would be able to bear it since the testimonies will play over and over in their minds. But, if I were a psychiatrist, I would need to know all the details before I could best help her. Good thing I am not, just not hard enough not to be affected.

If a movie or a book comes out of this, I hope the society will boycott it and show Hollywood that it is inappropriate to "glorify" such crimes.

Guess it started with Lizzie Borden? I was horrified when I heard of her as a child in school. But at the same time I saw some kids act out the story!

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Peace be with you, Chavez and Cantu families.

The details; That would be FYI for pedophiles, abusers, rapist' and murderers.

At this point, Everybody knows what happened. Just "NOT" the sick details.

It is a done deal. It is over for huckaby.

The story of another sociopath.

Not the sordid details.

In most of these cases, Drugs. Whether it is the kind prescribed by a psychiatrist, or, self prescribed(Meth).

Both are epidemic.

Did they check this nut for drugs? Probably not.

She wasn't pulled over for DWI.

That is the cover up. Stainer, Yosemite killer, Meth.

Instead of checking themselves, the cops ask, Are you taking anything?

That would involve the criminal telling the truth.

If someone is taking drugs, there are signs to watch out for.

Otherwise, they appear normal. Then, they have an "Episode".

The family already knows. Drop it. Let them heal.

The media would alter the information to make news.

Thank you, LAM75 ! Personally I'm glad I'm not 20 something, because if I were I would have bad taste in music, and it never bothers me getting older since there is only one way to avoid it. :o)

I don't think this case of rape, murder was swept under the rug. I kind of "want" to know the details in some weird way, but mostly I don't. I want to know the motivation and a solution to stop raising people that are like that.

Sorry: The U is supposed to be I

Drop the case and get on with life. The family doesn't want to be reminded of the torture Sandra had to go through. We know the basics. We don't need full descriptions.

By the way, doors17, U hope you have a wonderful birthday and try not to overdo it on the cake (if you have any!). HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Tinfoil, I'm guessing that the reason we're hearing more about cases like this is because of the 24/7 news media that we have today that you and I didn't have. I'll be 53 next week and like you we both grew up with just two or three TV channels, with just thirty minutes of Walter Cronkite as our only news source besides our newspaper.

Stories like this happened all the time, it just that they stayed local, and not national.

Knowledge is power. In America up thru the 1950s and 60s it was common practice for incidents of child molestation and incest to be hushed up,swept under the rug and forgotten. Especially in rural communities because these incidents were embarrassing topics. Hundreds of thousands if not millions of children suffered abuse because of the cover-up policy. Beginning around 1974 the veil of secrecy began to lift. Today,such cases are generally identified early and dealt with. There's a whole lot of potential Melissas out there. We should all be made aware of the causative factors behind Melissa's terrible actions so that future such incidents can be stopped before they happen,

I agree. No good will come of the release of this info. The family has gone through enough. The media just wants to sell papers/magazines. What good would it do for the world to know how she died?! Leave it alone. The freedom of information act is to keep the government in check, not to expose the method of the murder of an innocent child.

Because of the Freedom of Information Act I know that the family has no say in what information is released to the public, but in cases such as this I wish the family would be able to decide, and allow them the privacy and respect they feel is necessary to volunteer whatever information they want to disclose.

No Tinfoil it is NOT good news. What would be the benefit of hearing how a poor little girl was sexually assault. Think about her family you jerk.

That's good news. I believ it's vital for the information to be made public. Not for curiosity's sake but to inform parents with troubled children what to look out for. This case was never as simple as has been made out to be by the prosecution.