04-21-2015, 04:18 PM
(04-15-2014, 09:22 PM)Cheyne Wrote: How does a man not know that his wife is pregnant 7 times in 10 years?
Maybe they were both on meth?
I don't know about the husband (Darren West) Cheyne, but you were right about Megan Huntsman -- she admitted that her addiction to meth contributed to the murders. She also claimed she was is an abusive marriage and felt like she was sparing the babies "in some small way".
Today, Megan Huntsman was sentenced to at least 30 years behind bars.
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Huntsman told police she strangled or suffocated at least six babies immediately after she gave birth to them between 1996 and 2006. The seventh, she said, was stillborn.
"Each baby was found wrapped in either a towel or a shirt, placed inside of a plastic bag, and each was contained in a separate cardboard box," a probable cause statement from last year said.
"It's been horrible for our department," Pleasant Grove police detective Dan Beckstrom told CNN affiliate KSL. "Some of the things officers saw in that garage, they can never unsee."
DNA testing showed West to be the father of all seven children. He said he wasn't aware of any of the pregnancies.
Huntsman blamed her actions on her addictions. First methamphetamine, a habit she said she kicked, then alcohol.
"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."
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/21/us/uta...index.html