40 year old Megan Huntsman pleaded guilty in February for 6 felony murders. She will spend an estimated amount of 30 years of jail before she can even get parole.
“I really thought I had seen it all until this case,” Judge Darold McDade said during sentencing on Monday.
Megan’s husband ,Darren West, Had found the body of a new born baby wrapped completely inside a plastic garbage bag inside his garage. The police had searched the entire house to eventually find the bodies of 7 dead babies. Each baby was found wrapped up in towels or shirts and placed inside garbage bags. Huntsman came forward and told the police she had strangled or suffocated at least six babies immediately after she gave birth to them between 1996 and 2006. The seventh baby, she said; was stillborn. In a DNA test, West came out to be the father of all 7 babies but was unaware of all 7 pregnancies.
“Depression and alcohol took hold of me the same way drugs did,” she said in a statement read by her attorney. “I cannot give a reasonable answer why I was capable of such a sick and heinous crime. I held my secret for 18 years.”
Humans always have the option of controlling their lifes. If she felt unprepared to be a mother of 7 or was passing it drunk all the times, then she should have alerted her husband to use protection so that they may never have to come to this conclusion. It’s devistating to hear when one takes the life of another especially when they are a new born. One must admire what they have and appreciate that life has brought you a baby to grow and love.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/21/us/utah-mom-sentenced-baby-deaths/index.html
marielena0221 • May 7, 2015 at 2:02 pm
This is so sad, how can a “mother” kill her own babies?.. I’m so shocked to find out that a person can do this. How is it possible to even hide a pregnancy? I mean, how can nobody knew about them?
This is just so terrible, many females struggle to conceive and this crazy person killing her own babies. Seriously she deserves to be in jail the rest of her life.
nathalie031 • Apr 28, 2015 at 2:37 pm
This is so weird, I don’t understand how a man could be that oblivious to his wife being pregnant. I mean even if she wasn’t vomiting or craving random foods you could still tell that her tummy is getting bigger hes obviously seeing her naked a lot if he got her pregnant 7 times! So the fact that he had no idea is weird, but then again if he knew why would he wait until the 7th baby to finally turn her in?…
TheQueen54 • Apr 28, 2015 at 2:16 pm
It’s sad that things like this are going on in the world. However, I believe that people who are under the influence of drugs and those who suffer from drug addiction hardly have any real “control” over their lives. Unless we really put ourselves in her shoes and look at this situation from a different point of view, we can never really learn from this tragic event. Humility is the key to learning from others mistakes.
Jackie • Apr 27, 2015 at 9:23 am
What kind of a mother gives births to 7 babies and strangles them all. How would her husband not know about her pregnacies, how would he not know what his own wife does? Maybe he had something to do with all these murders because its weird how he just randomly found the bodies in the garbage, why would he be looking threw it?