Posted on 07/26/2006 9:35:01 AM PDT by cajunman
If she's as nutty as he says she was, she's incapable of making good decisions - especially judging by the fact she killed her kids.
Until all the details of the impregnation are released
What? What details do you need? Together, they had another baby. I'm not sure where you're getting from my post that he is more responsible for his children's death. If you want to get technical, he didn't hold their heads under water and kill them. But he sure knew his wife was crazy. Why would any husband, who cared for his wife and kids, not do what the doctors advise?
Once upon a time these folks were burned at the stake. While I don't propose bringing back witch tests, is a nice cool needle in the arm asking too much?
I can understand the pain and suffering... and the sympathy. I have a relative diagnosed as schizophrenic.
But I also grew up in a town where the state hospital was located, the "outpatients" lived among us, and some of them were violent. :-0 There was one guy who attacked his mother violently and was released again to live in our vicinity.
The way I see it, once someone who is mentally ill has committed murder, that person should be locked up forever. That person should never be released. If that person is truly "sick" and unable to control his or her actions, then we're doing both that person and society some good with a lifetime sentence in a mental hospital.
Also, with so many people being diagnosed with "mental disorders" these days, one day everyone will be able to plead insanity.
"People look at the fact that she systematically murdered 5 children and can't imagine that a mother could do that to her own children unless she was insane."
I would hope those same people wouldn't be able to imagine that a FATHER could do that to HIS own children unless he was insane, as well.
But I'm thinking, not...........
That jury needs to be committed.
"Really doesn't matter what we do to her, upon her death, she's headed straight for the hell realms. No 49 days in the bardo......"
Actually our Lord Jesus can and does forgive crimes such as these and worse. I pray that justice is served here on this earth, but that Andrea will come to our Lord and Savior and find forgiveness in His sacrifice. We all deserve hell, every single one of us, including you and me. By Grace alone are any of us saved.
Exactly. I wonder what some people on this thread think about a sane person having sex with an insane person?
I hadn't seen that information before. Thanks for posting it. A change of meds can be a critical time for any person dealing with any illness (think of a change in heart meds, for example). I don't think the meds necessarily contributed although they could have. Those types of meds - even just higher doses take a few days/weeks to achieve the desired effect and for the person to "readjust" to the changes as well. I'll bet she was still in a downward spiral at that point, and the meds didn't have a chance to work. So many questions and possibilities as for why her illness progressed and manifested as it did. Most of those questions will probably never be answered definitively, IMHO.
Don't get wrong. I am not making excuses for her at all. I think they should BOTH be in jail.
I guess you have links to back up your assertions?....
No treatment?....
What did the erroneous testimony from trial one have to do with her condition?...
What did the prosecutor have to do with her killing her children?...
Rusty was never convicted of anything and thus not guilty just like the self admitted killer....
Now where are you links to your assertions?...
Did the husband kill those kids?
Did the doctors kill those kids?
Did society kill those kids?
Andrea Yates, and only Andrea Yates killed those kids. She is responsible, no one else is.
With details of the impregnation, I mean-
Failure of birth control?
Use of birth control?
No birth control?
There are plenty of things that we do not know about how this pregnancy occured. I assume that the Dr. you are referring to is the psychiatrist who advised them not to have children. From all of my experience with shrinks, I wouldn't listen to or trust them either.
Your statement that "technically" the father did not kill his children implicates the father as the guilty party in this crime. That, while he did not physically hold the kids under the water, he was the force that drove his wife to this act.
Frankly, I don't care if she is insane or not, she killed her kids in a merciless and cold-blooded fashion. She should die. And in all honestly, there is more mercy in a painless death than in years in a mental hospital.
With details of the impregnation, I mean-
Failure of birth control?
Use of birth control?
No birth control?
There are plenty of things that we do not know about how this pregnancy occured. I assume that the Dr. you are referring to is the psychiatrist who advised them not to have children. From all of my experience with shrinks, I wouldn't listen to or trust them either.
Your statement that "technically" the father did not kill his children implicates the father as the guilty party in this crime. That, while he did not physically hold the kids under the water, he was the force that drove his wife to this act.
Frankly, I don't care if she is insane or not, she killed her kids in a merciless and cold-blooded fashion. She should die. And in all honestly, there is more mercy in a painless death than in years in a mental hospital.
Only one insane was the jury to find the evil one "not guilty".
Disgusting verdict by a most disgusting evil person.
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