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
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There are two tragedies, ... One is my children and the other is my wife.
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I was listening to the radio and they were playing some music in my cell. I heard a voice through the music.
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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,
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methodically drowned her five children one by one in a bathtub.
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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.
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I said, 'Is anyone hurt?' She said, 'Yes.' I said, 'Who?' She said, 'The children. All of them,' ... My heart just sank.
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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?
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They were not progressing the right way in school, and they had a problem with their manners, their social manners,
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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,
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Apparently, patient and husband plan to have as many babies as nature will allow. This will surely guarantee psychotic depression.
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a cruel dilemma which turned upside down her sense of right and wrong.
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Sometimes Andrea liked to take the hard road instead of the easy road.
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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.
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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.