Cantu's Mom Wants To Move: Report

Bad Memories Haunt Mother, Friend Says

The police checkpoint is gone from the front of Orchard Estates Mobile Home Park where candles, flowers and and stuffed animals sat in memoriam for 8-year-old Sandra Cantu.

According to a friend of Maria Chavez, Cantu's mother, the NBC station in Sacramento has learned that Chavez wants to move away from the mobile home park because memories of her daughter and the events that took place at the park are too much to bear.

Cantu's body was found in a suitcase pulled from an irrigation pond north of Tracy. She disappeared from the mobile home park on March 27, setting off an intense hunt that drew national media attention.

Melissa Huckaby, a Sunday school teacher at her grandfather's congregation, was arrested just a few days before Easter.

Some churches in Tracy said attendance was down on that Easter Sunday.

Chavez, along with her two other daughters, live with her parents at the mobile home park.

The family is getting support from local churches, such as Victory Christian Church in Tracy.

Diane White distributed religious pamphlets in the neighborhood after Cantu's disappearance.

White's church is across the street from Clover Road Baptist Church, where Huckaby taught Sunday school, and said she is also disturbed by what has happened in Tracy.

"My stepdaughter moved here 30 years ago so she would have a better life for her children and people are seeing bank robberies, all kinds of things are happening," White said. "And they came to Tracy to get away from places like Sacramento, gangs, and murders every day."

Police said Huckaby acted alone, but many residents still expect another arrest or even two.

Huckaby is scheduled to be arraigned on May 22. She could enter a plea at that time.

This article originally appeared on KCRA.com.

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