[Coachm]

Please post a vomit/? alert for something like this in the future. I'm crying profusely as I type.

[Sola Veritas]

"The last words he spoke just before his mother drowned him in the bathtub was: “Mother, have I done something wrong?”"

Oh my, I am a man, but that makes me want to cry like a baby. I cannot understand how someone could murder a child, especially there own. I am going straight home and give my eight year old son and big hug and kiss.

[Dog Gone]

All the jury did was correctly apply Texas state law regarding the insanity defense. However, they did show her mercy because she could have been given the death penalty.

[annyokie]

I know I will get flamed for this as I have in the past.

Andrea Yates is insane. Her husband knew she was insane. He continued to get her pregnant and forced her to homeschool the kids, knowing she was insane. He forced his family of six to live in a converted school bus in Florida until he finally secured a job in Texas and an actually dwelling for them. He made a few lame attempts to get her treatment, but still left the children with her when he knew she was in a downward spiral. He isolated her from friends and family throughout the whole marriage by not letting her work or drive or be around her family.

I am not excusing what she did, by any means. Rusty Yates is no prince and is as culpable in the deaths of those babies as their mother.

[xJones]

Frankly, I’m also sick of lesbians tell us the rest of us how great their lifestyle is. If it were so great, than why all the hostility to ours?

Frankly, it's too bad their mothers didn't exercise their drowning privileges.

[Chad Fairbanks]

“She doesn’t need forgiveness, she needs compassion”

Only if the definition of the word "compassion" is the same as it would be in the case of a rabid mad dog.