FAIL? LOL, hardly. I left out a tid-bit about Andrea’s case, deliberately.
Mental illness, if that was the case with Andrea’s inspiration for killing her children, must be contagious, since her former room-mate, belonging to a similar religious organisation, committed the same crime:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dena_Schlosser
And,
Mothers who killed:
•Andrea Yates, 44, of Houston drowned her five kids in June 2001, believing she was protecting them from Satan. During her second trial in July 2006, a jury found her not guilty by reason of insanity, and the former nurse was ordered to stay in a state mental hospital.
•Lisa Ann Diaz, 38, drowned her daughters – ages 3 and 5 – in September 2005, wrapped them in a blanket and laid them on a bed in their Plano house. A jury found her not guilty by reason of insanity, and she was released from a West Texas state hospital in late 2006.
•Valeria Maxon, 34, of Mansfield drowned her 1-year-old son in the family’s hot tub in June 2006 because she thought she was a witch and her son was the Antichrist, according to court testimony. During her capital murder trial, the judge declared her legally insane and ordered her to receive treatment at the North Texas State Hospital in Vernon.
•Deanna Laney, 44, bludgeoned her three sons with stones, killing two and seriously injuring the other in 2003, believing that God was telling her to do it. At the end of her 2004 capital murder trial, Ms. Laney was found not guilty by reason of insanity. She was sent to a state mental hospital, where she remains.
Oh, I forgot. You’d rather selectively use “mental illness” as a canard than look at all angles involved in all those cases.
Look up the meaning of ‘double standards’ on the way, too.
The antipsychotic drug put Yates's delusions in abeyance.
Cheers!