(story update) Woman admits to suffocating 6 babies in Utah home

[The Straight Story]

Megan Huntsman, 39, was arrested a day after police found seven dead infants inside a Pleasant Grove house where she used to live. Police said she moved out in 2011. They were called to the house after the body of the first "full term" baby was found by Huntsman's ex-husband, who still lives there.
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Huntsman had her bail set at $6 million during a court appearance April 14 -- $1 million for each baby she's accused of killing. No other arrests have been made, but police said the investigation was ongoing. Huntsman also has three daughters, two adults and a teenager, who lived at the house.

Authorities said Huntsman admitted April 14 to giving birth to at least seven babies in the home, and that six had been born alive. She acknowledged either strangling or suffocating the children immediately after birth, wrapping them in a towel or a shirt, and placing them in plastic bags inside the boxes.

Police said Huntsman gave birth to the babies and killed them between 1996 and 2006. She was booked April 13 at the Utah County Jail on six counts of murder. Police didn't immediately pursue charges against her ex-husband, who they believe didn't have "any knowledge of the situation."

http://cir.ca/news/utah-dead-babies-case

[gopiscrap]

1. Any relation to Huntsman the political guy?

They are pretty inbred in Utah you know! (LDS types used to have lots of wives)

[Politicalboi]

2. Didn't her husband know she was pregnant?

How does one keep 6 pregnancies quiet from her husband.

[Ohio Joe]

7. It gets even a little wierder then that...

I had the same thought when I read the OP, so I went and looked for other articles and found this one that has two things that seem odd...

First this part:

"We don't believe he had any knowledge of the situation," Roberts told The Associated Press

Asked how the man could not have known about the situation, Roberts replied, "That's the million-dollar question. Amazing."

So... The police don't believe the husband had knowledge but at the same time are mystified as to how that could be... WTF?

Then this:

"Huntsman also has three daughters -- one teenager and two young adults -- who lived at the house.

Neighbors in the middle-class neighborhood of mostly older homes 35 miles south of Salt Lake City say they were shocked by the accusations and perplexed that the woman's older children still living in the home didn't know their mother was pregnant or notice anything suspicious."

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/04/14/police-arrest-woman-after-finding-7-dead-babies-in-cardboard-boxes-in-garage/

So... There was not only the husband but three daughters in the house and not one of them knew she was pregnant?

I've heard of pregnancies where a woman does not show much but... 7 of them and not one of the other four people in the house knows?

Very odd.

[Emelina]

10. Sad and sick! Utah has the death penalty, right?

[nobodyspecial]

19. As heinous as this is, how would killing this woman

help or change anything?

[LisaL]

8. He was in prison from what has been reported.

Recently got out.

[Frustratedlady]

3. Her ex didn't know she was pregnant?

How could he not have any knowledge? Wasn't he living there?

[LisaL]

6. I am not exactly sure of the timeline, but her husband recently got out of prison.

Although apparently he is still the father of these infants.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Wonder if she thought birth control was too immoral or expensive.

[hfojvt]

18. probably

and is there even an abortion provider in Utah?

But why would she want to go through SIX!!! (or seven??) deliveries all by herself, without so much as a midwife present? Instead of just getting her tubes tied.

[joeybee12]

5. This is too horrific for words...

What's with the adult children...how did they not know...how phucked up are they even though she decided they could live...jesus. Hope the little ones are at peace.

[The Straight Story]

9. I think there is a lot more going on in this story than we know now (nt)

[get the red out]

12. Definitely

I agree.

[joeybee12]

13. Probably...and it will probably get even worse...

if that's possible.

[dilby]

11. Sounds like she did not want kids but her husband did.

And he kept knocking her up, she probably did the only thing she felt she could in her mind.

[CTyankee]

14. My thoght, too. An extreme form of postpartum psychosis?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postpartum_psychosis

A former co-worker of mine had this after the birth of her baby. She heard voices telling her to kill the baby and she was so shaken that she voluntarily went into Yale-New Haven Hospital's psychiatric ward, where she was medicated and treated. Her child was cared for by relatives and its father while she was committed.

She is fine now and her son is 13 years old living at home with both parents. She is an extremely bright and creative individual and a graduate of Yale Divinity School. I have known her as a kind and talented woman and have kept in touch.

[woodsprite]

15. Could she be covering for her daughters?

Just a thought. Hope they follow through and check DNA.

[The Straight Story]

16. Ya know what is weird about that idea?

When I first read the article I thought about that and it seemed like that idea somehow made more sense or was less crazy.

And yet, it isn't.

[Orrex]

17. Before this goes any farther, we should begin our wild speculation