Don’t let the tears fool you, this fiend is only upset because her crime against little Sandra Cantu was so hideous that prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. How hideous? The theory of the crime is that Melissa Huckaby kidnapped Cantu, drugged her and raped her with a foreign object before murdering her. It is also being said that Huckaby drugged (and perhaps raped) a 7-year-old and she drugged a 37-year-old man she was dating.

She’s an animal who prosecutors know needs to be put down:

STOCKTON — The Northern California woman charged with kidnapping, raping and murdering 8-year-old girl, whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase, will face the death penalty.

Melissa Huckaby pleaded not guilty in June to murdering Sandra Cantu.

The 28-year-old former Sunday School teacher showed no emotion as San Joaquin County prosecutor Thomas Testa told the court Thursday of his office’s intention to seek the death penalty.

Sandra’s family also attended the hearing.

Also Thursday, Huckaby asked the judge for a new attorney and possible trial dates were being discussed.

Huckaby was arrested April 10, just days after Sandra Cantu’s body was found in a suitcase pulled from an irrigation pond near her home in a Tracy mobile home park.

Huckaby was a Sunday school teacher at her grandfather’s small church.

Authorities believe Sandra was killed in the church, which is next to the trailer park where both Huckaby and the girl’s family live.

Huckaby also pleaded not guilty to charges drugging a 7-year-old girl as well as a 37-year-old man, whom police believe she had dated.

Huckaby has been trying to work an insanity defense by “harming” herself in jail. These incidents all involve sitting around with blankets tied around her neck (but not trying to actually kill herself) and telling a guard she took some pills. Frankly since she’s a pervert I wouldn’t doubt she was just choking herself for fun, and pills as well as almost any other drug you can imagine flow through county lock-ups like water.

Let’s not forget, through her tears, who this person is. She’s a child rapist, a child murderer and a pervert/addict who drugged the man she was dating for kicks. If this was a man no one would be shedding a tear for him so don’t shed one for Melissa Huckaby either.