Insanity Plea in Infant Murder

DALLAS (AP) _ A woman accused of mutilating and killing her newborn in San Antonio has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.

Catherine Babbitt, a spokeswoman for Bexar County District Attorney Susan Reed, defense lawyers entered the plea on behalf of Otty Sanchez. If a judge accepts the plea agreement, Sanchez will be sent to a state mental institution.

The 33-year-old San Antonio woman is charged with capital murder in the death of her son, Scott Wesley Buchholz-Sanchez. The baby was six days old when her sister called 911 and authorities found the baby’s mutilated body and Sanchez wailing that the devil made her do it.

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