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
manners problem social
They were not progressing the right way in school, and they had a problem with their manners, their social manners,
children fires perish rest tormented
The children were going to be tormented the rest of their lives, and they were going to perish in the fires of hell,
upset
Andrea is more upset now than before because she is getting better and realizes what happened.
heard listening music playing radio voice
I was listening to the radio and they were playing some music in my cell. I heard a voice through the music.
children drowned five
methodically drowned her five children one by one in a bathtub.
against along charges decide doctors drop feeling hospital mental money serial treated waste
If they drop charges against her, then she'd go to a mental hospital and then the doctors would decide when she's well enough to go home, ... They've treated her like a serial killer, and my feeling all along has been it's a waste of the taxpayers' money to prosecute her.
real believe psychosis
Severe mental illness like psychosis can lead to a tragedy like this - that people can see things that aren't real and hear things that aren't real and believe things that aren't real, and act in that distorted reality.
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severe mental illness like psychosis can lead to a tragedy like this -- that people can see things that aren't real and hear things that aren't real and believe things that aren't real, and act in that distorted reality.
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I think everyone would lose again if they brought her back to trial, ... Although, if she does go back to trial she could be found not guilty by reason of insanity. To me, any way I look at it, it's good for her.
children fire evil
It was the seventh deadly sin. My children weren't righteous. They stumbled because I was evil. The way I was raising them they could never be saved. They were doomed to perish in the fires of hell.
ask needs prayer suffering
My wife, she's really suffering, and I just ask that you say a prayer for her because she needs it. She's suffering right now,