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
again brought found good guilty lose reason trial
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.
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,
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?
children drowned five
methodically drowned her five children one by one in a bathtub.
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.
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.
manners problem social
They were not progressing the right way in school, and they had a problem with their manners, their social manners,
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.
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.