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To: reflecting
I'm reading the words that you sent, but it seems more of a dig at me than an actual sincere wish. Listen this woman killed her own kids, she wasn't walking from house to house naked or acting a little strange for my comfort. She actually killed her own 5 children, I'm sorry I cannot feel any sympathy for this woman. She deserves more than what she got & at least from a religious point of view maybe she will fry in Hell when she finally departs her earthly murdering body.
7 posted on 04/04/2002 7:56:39 AM PST by HELLRAISER II
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To: HELLRAISER II
It was a minor dig, but also an honest hope. I do not know how old your are, but with age some wisdom should accrue. The precious children are dead, it is unspeakable horrible. This mother, who from all testimony loved and cherished her babies slowly, drowned them one by one. She hears voices, she has been suicidal, she had been hospitalized for near catatonic depression, and she has been on the strongest medications. It is very plain that Yates had a psychotic break. She was not selfish, wicked, vile. She was insane. Insanity does not often present itself like the Hollywood image of the naked man dancing down the street. It looks most often like Andrea Yates.

You should feel very sorry for her; her brain function became so diseased that she killed her own children. Just as cancer could happen to anyone of us, so can mental illness. Thankfully most of the time it does not take such a terrible turn, but it is always very heartwrenching.

It is possible that your own lack of sympathy is a defense which allows you to beleive this could never happen to you. And I truely hope it does not.

8 posted on 04/04/2002 8:21:46 AM PST by reflecting
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