Andrea Yates
Andrea Yates
Andrea Pia Kennedy Yatesis a former resident of Houston, Texas, who confessed to drowning her five children in their bathtub on June 20, 2001. She had been suffering for some time with very severe postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis. She was represented by Houston criminal defense attorney George Parnham. Chuck Rosenthal, the district attorney in Harris County, asked for the death penalty in her 2002 trial. Her case placed the M'Naghten Rules, along with the Irresistible Impulse Test, a legal...
ProfessionCriminal
Date of Birth2 July 1964
anyone heart
I said, 'Is anyone hurt?' She said, 'Yes.' I said, 'Who?' She said, 'The children. All of them,' ... My heart just sank.
community danger family ill medical obviously protect question treat
We didn't see her as a danger, ... The real question to me is: How could she have been so ill and the medical community not diagnose her, not treat her, and obviously not protect our family from her?
drowning night
If it hadn't been by drowning while we were gone, it would have been smothering them at night or poisoning them at breakfast,
depression
because she was having depression from having kids.
help line
I'd be the first in line to help the jury.
became hardened killer loving mother reason serial step treated
Every step of the way, they've treated her like a serial killer for no reason -- a hardened serial killer. And she's not. She's a loving mother who became desperately ill and really did the unthinkable,
gentle loved
She loved our kids, ... kind, gentle person.
blames says side
One side of me blames her because she did it, but the other side says she didn't because that wasn't her.
care emphasis primary security
the primary emphasis is on care and not security.
easy hard instead liked road
Sometimes Andrea liked to take the hard road instead of the easy road.
cruel dilemma turned upside
a cruel dilemma which turned upside down her sense of right and wrong.
babies guarantee husband nature patient plan psychotic surely
Apparently, patient and husband plan to have as many babies as nature will allow. This will surely guarantee psychotic depression.
children
There are two tragedies, ... One is my children and the other is my wife.
remember
I remember little Paul, ... He had a boo-boo. Andrea put a Band-aid on it. It wasn't even a cut, but she was very loving.