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
care emphasis primary security
the primary emphasis is on care and not security.
children
There are two tragedies, ... One is my children and the other is my wife.
cruel dilemma turned upside
a cruel dilemma which turned upside down her sense of right and wrong.
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,
upset
Andrea is more upset now than before because she is getting better and realizes what happened.