Justice? There will be justice. Should we make a mistake, the Lord will judge fairly.
I would hate to think a mother could sanely kill five of her children.
But, there is blame for the husband who failed to protect those children - he surely knew she was insane.
I so agree with you. He should be serving time for aiding and abetting (or some such thing...)
Justice would be if they arrested her husband who is sane and ignored the doctors warnings and still didn't use a condom or work to protect his children by committing her or refrain from impregnating her against the advise of doctors.
I am very disappointed in some of the posts on this thread.
"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.
This woman was gravely mentally ill before she had her last child. The doctors strongly recommended she not have more children as she was already so stressed and struggling mentally.
I give the majority of blame in this tragedy to her husband. He encouraged her to have another child, he discouraged her from taking medication she needed. He ignored the doctors and social workers concerns...allowing her to be isolated with her children and home schooling them.
This woman was a walking time bomb. The signs were all there as clear as could be! Now she will remain in a mental institution most likely for the rest of her life, even if she does stabalize. The awfullness of her crime will not allow her discharge.
I would hate to think a mother could sanely kill five of her children.
But, there is blame for the husband who failed to protect those children - he surely knew she was insane.
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I've always thought the same thing - no rational woman could kill one after the other - I think this is different than the woman who put her kids in the car and then let it roll into the lake. I believe Andrea Yates former husband should be held responsible for the deaths of the children. He saw his wife slide into unspeakable behavior and just watched it happen....
I don't hope she commits suicide as another poster does, but I do hope she gets help so she doesn't do that. I know God forgives us even of horrible things, but I don't know how our own mind would allow forgiveness of such a thing.