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
easy hard instead liked road
Sometimes Andrea liked to take the hard road instead of the easy road.
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,
children drowned five
methodically drowned her five children one by one in a bathtub.
help line
I'd be the first in line to help the jury.
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.
act believe distorted hear illness lead mental people psychosis severe tragedy
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.
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.
depression
because she was having depression from having kids.
manners problem social
They were not progressing the right way in school, and they had a problem with their manners, their social manners,
children
There are two tragedies, ... One is my children and the other is my wife.
care emphasis primary security
the primary emphasis is on care and not security.
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.
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.