Decapitated baby's mother had depression diagnosis

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Relatives of the Texas mother of a 3½-week-old boy found dismembered in his bedroom say she was diagnosed with schizophrenia and postpartum psychosis.

The father of the slain baby says he wants her executed.

Scott W. Buchholtz, who called his son ``baby Scotty,' told the San Antonio Express-News on Monday that 33-year-old Otty Sanchez should ``pay the ultimate price' in the death of Scott Wesley Buchholtz-Sanchez.

Relatives and Buchholtz told the newspaper her mental health deteriorated in the week before the baby's death Sunday. Buchholtz said she kept telling him she needed to see a counselor. Sanchez told detectives she had been hearing voices.

Sanchez is charged with capital murder. She was hospitalized with self-inflicted stab wounds, and was being held on $1 million bail.

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