Posted on 07/21/2004 1:24:27 PM PDT by presidio9
HOUSTON, Texas (AP) -- Andrea Yates, who is serving a life sentence for drowning her children in a bathtub three years ago, has been hospitalized because she is refusing to eat, her attorney said Tuesday night.
Her condition was unclear, attorney George Parnham told The Associated Press late Tuesday. He said he tried but was unable to visit with his client Tuesday because she wasn't coherent.
"There is apparently a determination within her that wants to put an end to this," Parnham said. "I'm not sure what type of psychiatric medications can offset the reality of what occurred and make her feel better about that."
Prison spokesman Mike Viesca said Yates was transported from the Skyview Unit to a hospital in Galveston Monday night. He said he could give no other details.
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what a shame
If she wants to starve herself to death, I say let her do it.
Is it her fault the jury would not execute her ?
what's a shame?
Therefore, she should be freed.
Nope. If she wants the death penalty, and she has to do it herself, so be it.
Huh!??? Why do we want her to feel better about killing her children?? Sheesh!!!
dripping with sarcasm hopefully
Absolutely no "sane" person can kill her children - especially the way she did. I'm not saying let her go. These crimes are still crimes, no matter what kind of insane mind commits them, but Andrea Yates, was, is and always will be a tortured soul, till the day she dies. That is not funny. She's doing her time.
Yep, her lot is surely a hell on earth. Death would be a mercy to her.
YOu're right, she is not sane. But I don't think she should be so drugged out of her mind as to make her feel better about what she did is all.
"If she wants to starve herself to death, I say let her do it."
Right on! I don't like having my tax dollars being used to feed murderers for life anyways.
Ditto, I agree.
This woman needs Jesus in her life....
How come when men kill their wives, girlfriends, and or children they aren't pitied like this evil Yates woman? They are always seen as bad, domineering, controlling, and possessive but never as sad pitiful people.
If it's okay for Andrea to kill 5 little children then what's wrong with OJ or Scott Peterson killing out of the same reasons?
I don't think any med can make her feel better about what she did. I don't think there is any relief for her. That said, I take no pleasure in her fate and have no harsh feelings about what she is feeling.
Nobody said it was okay,,,where did you get that information. I think like most civil human beings, people feel sad at her fate from now on. Nobody likes to see humans suffer. Or nobody I know does.
Gee, if she was in Florida there wouldn't be a problem.
Seriously, she finally realizes exactly what she did and quite rightly wants to die. Medication won't help her nightmare.
To bad, so sad. If she wants to speed it up, In Tom Clany's book "The Sum of all Fears", he does tell how a woman can off herself with her bra. Maybe I could send her my copy!!
Must be PMS - certainly not her fault.
Only God knows where she's going. After reading your post, it occured to me to say a prayer for her soul.
Have you seen this thread?
I think she will suffer for the rest of her life. Flame me if you want to, but I do have compassion for her. I will continue to pray for her. No mother who is sane would do what she has done.
Amen to both comments.
Luke 4:16-21
16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. 18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
20 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
21 And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.
May she be delivered. That does NOT imply released from prison, just the spirit oppressing her.
No No No, she shouldn't be allowed to starve herself. She should be kept alive and reminded every hour of what she did. They should pipe the sound of crying babies into her cell 24 hours a day. We need to make her life a hell on earth for the next 50 years or so.
I thought only God could do that.....hmmmmm
the glee that people crucify this mentally ill woman who has to live with what she has done is beyond me...
I have some compassion for her too. I think she snapped with all the pressure coming at her. No one is made out of stone, but usually someone kills themselves when they crack, not their kids.
I'd like to investigate their "spiritual advisor". It's that kind of religious extremism that can be a psychological disaster for certain personality types. The burden of Andrea and Rusty Yates beliefs fell on her. Even hard line Catholics (I was raised in that kind of enviroment) have an escape clause for the use of birth control. Why couldn't Rusty have kept his pants on, or listened to all the doctors and used birth control?
I wonder if she was pregnant again. Published information said no, but we know that you can't believe everything you read. Another pregnancy could have been the catalyst. A forced abortion would have made things even worse for mental stability. I'm just speculating, of course.
I'm sure people will flame. Who cares :-)
I think Rusty should be in jail, and not skinnin' and grinnin' talking about wanting more and more children. What a fricking dimwit.
"Absolutely no "sane" person can kill her children - especially the way she did."
Correction: YOU couldn't kill your childeren--her way or any other way.
I'd guess that you have no experience with the self absorbed and the self pitying types who are perfectly sane and capable of anything.
When I was a kid I read a book that was years over my head in which a bartender said "...the self pity-ers...they're the most dangerous..."
At the age I was then my concept of "self pity" was a pouty kid saying 'nobody loves me'.
Now, at 45 years of age, I, unfortunatley, know all to well what the author of that book knew.
They ARE very dangerous and they ARE capable of ANYTHING.
There were warning signs that there was a problem before she killed her children. She had severe post-pardom depression, and then her husband got her pregnant again.
She is certainly guilty, but her husband is partially to blame.
He also left his children with a woman that was not doing well. Why did they homeschool their children if she was having mental problems?
He got off scott free and she is paying the price. I personally think that something should have been done to him also.
If we were talking about Susan Smith, I might actually agree with you. Check out my post above for some insight. She's already gone, mentally. Torturing her isn't going to do anything.
In case you are unfamiliar with Susan Smith, let me fill you in. She was commiting adultery with a man who didn't want to have her two little boys around. She strapped her babies into cars seat, then drove her car into a lake. Next she told authorities that she had been carjacked by a black male. I remember the press conference where she and her husband tearfully begged the "carjacker" to release the babies. There was even a composite sketch of the "perpetrator".
She has allegedly had sex with guards and offered up a pic on an internet site that matches idiots with inmates.
There is a difference. Yes children are dead, but you have to look at the big picture. Susan Smith is a sociopathic monster, imo. Andrea Yates is pathetic and brain damaged. May God have mercy on her soul.
I agree
Sometimes I wonder if he drove her to do it. There are some missing pieces to this story. Why didn't the most recent doctors treating Andrea report the situation to the authorities? In this case it certainly was warranted.
What about that hokey minister? He ordered them to live in a converted school bus years before they bought the house. I think both he and Rusty have some issues. There are a lot of dangerous people out there using God's name for their own purposes.
Rusty Yates gave some real shaky interviews. At the first one, I figured he was griefstricken. The second one, I was disgusted, and the one where he said he wanted to remarry and have more kids left me shocked. I think he should have been charged with at least criminal neglect. Some time in jail might have wiped that happy smile off his face.
Wideawake:
WAKE UP she is a nut case. If she checks out, good for the citizens. Someday some kind of "doctor" is going to turn her loose on society again.
She killed her kids one by one in the hour in which she knew she would not be disturbed or interrupted. (Apparently, when God told her to kill them he kept her acutely aware of such minor details.)
If anyone can prove that she thought she was screwing in a light bulb while she was murdering her kids, I'll accept the insanity defense. And how kind of her to slaughter them all right before the eldest who understood all. If she had a truly remorseful bone in her body, she'd be begging to be executed!
Even hell won't hold the likes of her.
Where is Jack Kevorkian when you need him?
Lemme guess -- Rusty's got a new chippie? Funny how Mr. Media Hound didn't return the reporter's phone call.
Then what about women whose husbands or boyfriends are abusive control freaks who go ahead and have another baby with him and then he waits for her to go off to work and kills every child one by one? Would you say that woman should be sent to prison too because she was partly to blame? It's a double standard --- men who violently and cruelly murder their children are viewed differently from women who do exactly the same.
If Rusty was so bad --- why didn't Andrea kill him? She picked on her defenseless children because she is one cruel heartless beast.
Do you have all this same compassion for OJ's suffering? Or for Scott Peterson or other men who have murdered members of their families? Do you think Scott Peterson isn't suffering equally with Andrea Yates? All except OJ are locked away and I'm sure Andrea will be freed soon, all show nothing but a lot of self-absorbtion and no remorse except sometimes for some self-pity they hope to gain. If OJ had killed his helpless children instead his ex-wife and her lover (maybe even to punish Nicole) --- would that have made everything different?
Nobody likes to see humans suffer????? Andrea certainly did herself --- chasing down her own terrified children, holding them under water while they struggled and finally drowned ---- not just one but 5 little babies. She certainly did enjoy seeing and making them suffer --- her oldest even had to witness her drown his little sister and knew she would do the same to him. Why did she want to see them suffer? Her answer was because they weren't perfect children.
Yep, I do. They put their children in harm. They need to be held responsible also. They brought children into the world and need to be responsible for them.
I don't know why she didn't kill him. It would have made more sense to me, but I'm not crazy.
I don't think anyone really defends her. I certainly don't. I just don't like Rusty. He creeps me out too.
I just don't know how he could leave his children alone with her. I don't know why he chose to have another baby with her.
She's definitely whacko, but I think he must be too.
I bathed my Keeshond in the bathtub today and as the dog squirmed a bit, I remembered the adorable Yates children, who must have put up a much stronger fight. Their terrified kicking and screaming would have snapped anyone out of madness; I believe Mrs. Yates drowned her children intentionally. Jail is where she belongs, a dark and dismal cell preferably with leaking plumbing.
Everyone should check out that link. Thanks for posting it, so I could refresh my memory.
I've read articles where "experts" try and explain where certain types of sociopathy originate. Her father's suicide and sexual abuse from her stepfather are strong indicators. She certainly behaved perfectly in high school. Ooops, talking about Susan Smith, not Andrea Yates. We can see by her behavior that she has boundary problems brought on by her step father, and even her mother's behavior upon learning about the abuse. Part of her psyche died. These people are very dangerous to be around. I hope she never gets out of prison.
Imo, that still doesn't make her mentally ill in the sense that Andrea is. I read the excerpts of an interview between Andrea and an "unidentified male". This was religious delusion coupled with psychosis. I'm a traditional type woman...to a point. I think that a woman should stay home when there are children, and the man should be the breadwinner. Not every situation is the same. This is 2004, and you have to do what is right in your own situation. There is no shame in contacting social services for help. I wish Rusty Yates had done that.
I'm glad to see that Rusty is aware of the poor choice of religious advice that he and his wife received. His chatty tone with Larry King was unsettling. David Smith on the other hand, will always have a huge hole in his heart. I hope he is able to keep Susan behind bars for the rest of her life. May his children give him much needed comfort.
I have a feeling that Rusty was told social services was not christian, and part of secular government. The whole situation is sick really.
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