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Verdict Reached in Andrea Yates Case (UPDATE: Not Guilty by reason of insanity)
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Posted on 07/26/2006 9:35:01 AM PDT by cajunman
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To: roxybear
Would a sane person call the police? I thought the definition of insane was not being able to tell right from wrong. The fact she called the police shows that she knew what she did was wrong. Case closed.
To: bone52
And she, who might I add, knows herself better than her husband, also consented How can she consent to anything, she's "insane" remember
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posted on
07/26/2006 12:51:31 PM PDT
by
Lil Flower
("Without Love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing." St. Therese of Lisieux)
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To: All
SHE WAS CRAZY AT THE TIME? FINE!
FRY HER IN A CLOWN SUIT!
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posted on
07/26/2006 12:53:31 PM PDT
by
cdnerds
(cdnerds.com)
To: roxybear
LOL! Good question. A person with a conscience would. The definition of insane is the ability to distinguish right from wrong. If she called the police, she knew what she did was wrong. Plenty of people have called the police after killing someone.
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posted on
07/26/2006 12:54:53 PM PDT
by
Wyatt's Torch
(I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
To: ClancyJ
"But, there is blame for the husband who failed to protect those children - he surely knew she was insane."
I've always thought that, as well. He should spend life in prison for murder by depraved indifference. Doctors told THEM she should have no more children -- that she couldn't deal with it emotionally. Mr. Macho, intent on spreading his seed, insisted. If anyone shouldn't be procreating it's this pig. They're both guilty. So she goes to jail and he moves on with his pathetic life with a new woman in tow. Disgusting.
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To: Lil Flower
This woman is evil and that is not the same as insane. She knew exactly what she was doing.
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Lil Flower,
I was the charge nurse of a state psychiatric hospital for 2 years. Several women with post partum depression were admitted to my unit during that time.
I testify that these women were very, very mentally ill, hallucinating,frighteningly delusional, and in serious danger of suicide and absolutely incapable of being trusted with the care of any children.
Andrea already had one bout of post partum depression with a previous child. Her husband and extended family should have been counseled NOT to leave her alone with the children or alone by herself for even one minute. Did the medical personnel provide the needed counseling? This is how serious full blown post partum depression is.
I am very sorry for the poor children, Andrea, her husband, and the entire extended family. This is a tragedy that should have been prevented.
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posted on
07/26/2006 12:56:34 PM PDT
by
wintertime
(Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid.)
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To: roxybear
I wonder how much you really understand mental illness. Please don't question my understanding of mental illness, I deal with it everyday.
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posted on
07/26/2006 12:59:40 PM PDT
by
yellowdoghunter
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To: tessalu
tessalu,
I am so sorry. This is heartbreakingly sad. But,,,please remember that we have a Father in Heaven and in time, all that was lost will be restored to you and your daughter in full measure.
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posted on
07/26/2006 1:01:16 PM PDT
by
wintertime
(Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid.)
To: bone52
From all of my experience with shrinks, I wouldn't listen to or trust them either.Well, there you go. Perhaps had they listened to doctors orders her kids would still be alive.
That, while he did not physically hold the kids under the water, he was the force that drove his wife to this act.
Not the force A force. Do you really believe that he has no blame? And BTW, if my husband showed psychotic tendencies and the doctor told me no more kids - I'd be running to the nearest hospital for a snip. I wouldn't be messing with birth control - THAT is what a responsible adult does.
To: wintertime
I testify that these women were very, very mentally ill, hallucinating,frighteningly delusional, and in serious danger of suicide and absolutely incapable of being trusted with the care of any children. so can someone who is delusional, and hallucinating, make the decision to wait until their husband goes to work at 9:00 A.M., realizing that her mother in law is coming at 10:00 A.M., and systematically drown 5 children and then call the police? someone who is delusional and hallucinating cannot make a plan like that and then carry it out.
And again I ask, if she was hallucinating and delusional, what the hell was her husband doing having sex with her?
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posted on
07/26/2006 1:07:23 PM PDT
by
Lil Flower
("Without Love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing." St. Therese of Lisieux)
To: cajunman
What have they done?!!!
There is no justice.
The blood of the innocents cries out from the ground.
-- Genesis 4:10
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posted on
07/26/2006 1:08:40 PM PDT
by
XR7
To: cajunman
It is what it is, MURDER. She should be staring at striped sunlight instead of bouncing off rubber walls because she's mentally unstable. Charles Manson isn't serving life in a rubber room.
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posted on
07/26/2006 1:08:47 PM PDT
by
BigSkyFreeper
(There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity.)
To: roxybear
Andrea was psychoticSo is Charles Manson.
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posted on
07/26/2006 1:10:57 PM PDT
by
BigSkyFreeper
(There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity.)
To: roxybear
If she knew she did wrong and deserved to be punished, then yes.
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posted on
07/26/2006 1:14:21 PM PDT
by
Politicalmom
(Nearly 1% of illegals are in prison for felonies. Less than 1/10 of 1% of the legal population is.)
To: TNdandelion
Sad. I would bet they thought "She thinks she is mentally unstable, so, of course, that means she is sane. The really crazy ones never think they are crazy".
Glad you two sought out help.
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posted on
07/26/2006 1:19:00 PM PDT
by
ClancyJ
(Involuntary term limits for all our representatives - I want them ALL OUT OF OFFICE.)
To: tutstar
I think that abortion fits into this category as well...a lack of natural affection for that which grows inside a woman...willing to put her self interests above that of her unborn child--definitely a lack of natural affection, IMHO.
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posted on
07/26/2006 1:23:07 PM PDT
by
nfldgirl
("I love a good rant every now-n-then!")
To: LA Woman3
The court reporter then read the brief transcript, in which Dietz said Yates believed that Satan was at least present. She felt or sensed the presence.
I have no doubt that he was nearby.
This woman may need an exorcist as well as a psychiatrist.
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