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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.

I am age 37 & I have known people that were Mentally Ill, but again I say to you she wasn't a little off, she commited 5 murders of her own children.
I believe that you believe in what your saying & I think you are sincere in your wish that I not have to witness or be involved in a situation like this as do I. But this woman will never be an asset of our society, she could never be trusted to do anything.
Whether she is nuts or not, makes no difference to me. She will always be a Liability & a danger to society, therefore we are better off without her.
I realize you look at my comments and say this fellow is without compassion, that is wrong I have lot's of compassion for the victims.

I'm with these others who say she should have been fried...and I'll tell you why:

Andrea went into episodes where she threatened her own life, and apparently thought so little of herself that she did not keep herself clean or feed herself as any human being would. She became an animal. But the real kicker of a 'reason' why she killed her children is her statement that she thought they were flawed.

IF she had succeeded in killing herself, THAT would have been tragic. Five babies left in the world without a mother. But then we wouldn't have had to worry about that. Her a**wipe of a husband has already proven he is quite ready to go out and find another willing cow to bear his seed. So they would have ended up with a mother again. THAT would have been preferable.

But somewhere between the fantasies she had of killing herself, and killing someone else, she somehow decides that maybe she IS worthy of remaining in the world...but someone's got to go...so it has to be her children.

The thought processes she had to go through in order to do this are suspiciously like a planned thing to me...thereby, deserving of NO OTHER FEELING OR COMPULSION THAN UTTER HORROR, REVULSION, AND REJECTION.

SHE chose her own life over that of her kids. I ask you, reflecting, is Andrea Yates a "Mother," when she thought SO LITTLE of her precious babies, who are the essence of innocense and promise, that she viewed wrenching their lives from their bodies FAR PREFERABLE to relinquishing her own?

I ask you, reflecting, how is it that she could suddenly decide that SHE is more worthy of life in this world than they?

NO milk of human kindness in her...