Police find seven dead babies in Utah County home

[warrior1]

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/57814129-78/huntsman-police-chipman-utah.html.csp




Crime » Woman, 39, allegedly gave birth, then killed the infants and put their bodies in the garage.

By Michael McFall

| The Salt Lake Tribune
First Published 3 hours ago • Updated 37 minutes ago

Pleasant Grove police made a grisly discovery Saturday: seven dead infants, six of them in cardboard boxes.

Megan Huntsman, 39, was arrested early Sunday morning on suspicion of six counts of murder.

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[Brickbat]

1. Heartbreaking.

Here's hoping she gets the help she clearly needs.

[Ilsa]

2. What the hell is wrong with people?

And there she is, looking sorry that she got caught. Did she murder them out of shame? To deny her ex-husband his fatherhood of those children?

I have family going through a custody battle. Here's the rub: neither parent appears to want the kids; they just don't want to pay the other parent child support. It sickens me. Thankfully, the state has an active case file on the two kids to make certain they get the necessities.

[warrior1]

3. very disturbed woman

[Laffy Kat]

4. There's much, much more to this story, I'm sure.

Her husband "had no idea" his wife had been pregnant, and to term from the sound of it, seven times? Seriously?

[rocktivity]

5. Who's their daddy?

On Saturday, police responded to a call from Huntsman’s ex-husband about a dead infant found inside a...home that Huntsman lived in until 2011. Officers arrived and found the body of a newborn infant, who appeared to be full term...

Investigators learned that Huntsman allegedly gave birth to the infants, then killed them, over a 10 year period...Her ex-husband is believed to be the father, but investigators are still working on DNA tests...

The ex-husband’s parents own the home, and Huntsman’s three daughters still live there...The eldest daughters are around 18 to 20 years old, while the youngest is now about 13...

The ex had been cleaning out the garage on Saturday getting ready to move back into the house this summer...At this point, police are not pursuing charges against the ex-husband...

And where has Mrs. Huntsman been living since 2011? When did the Huntsmans get divorced, and what kind of contact have they had? Do the ex-husband's parents also live in the home, or are her two older daughters raising the 13-year old themselves?


rocktivity

[malaise]

7. Well she does look like she needs medication but you raise a valid question

He must have known she was pregnant several times. Something appears wrong with this story.

[bettyellen]

6. They found a few in my town after a woman squatted between cars on our main street to

Deliver her kid. Between her and her sister- (both with very low IQs / cognitive issues as far as we could tell) there were 3-4 more dead newborns. Two or so buried, one just tossed inside a broken washing machine. The police concluded they were all still born. They could have been the sort to not even know/ believe they were pregnant or what to do.
Sad, there'd definitely been men they bartered sexual favors with in town, because they were poor and easy to take advantage of. People used to see them get free bus rides and food and ask why.
So I think the police just said fuck it, no one really cared about those babies, or about punishing the women for neglect. Sad.

[nomorenomore08]

8. I really want to know what created this situation. It may be more extreme than most

but roughly similar things happen all the time in this country.

[Wellstone ruled]

9. Utah Values!!!!

[LittleBlue]

10. Those poor babies

WTF?