The detestable Perky One will be thrilled. No doubt where Yates will land for an interview.
Out by the end of the year?
Did she plea down to Providing Swimming Lessons Without a Permit?
This woman was really a case of Post Partnum depression.
Her bizzare family refused to follow through with mental health treatment that she had begun, especially anti psychotic depression medicine.
Her husband insisted she also Home school all the children AFTER she already had several breakdowns.
I really feel this woman, now no doubt having received help for her mental illness, will leave jail realizing what she did.
A horrible tragedy that did not need to happen.
Andrea Yates was found guilty in the first trial but the verdict was overturned on appeal becausse of erroneous testimony. The 2nd trial she was found not guilty by reason of insanity and was placed in a mental hospital. She would be released at the point in time the shrinks determined she was no longer insane. I guess that determination has been reached.
***SIGH***, liberalism is definately a mental disorder. This women murdered her children, one by one, but, you know, it was just a mental disorder, so it really wasn't her fault...SHEESH!
This women should be executed or at least spend the rest of her life in prison.
I prefer execution for murderers.
I certainly hope she’s been declared an unfit mother and not allowed to keep any if she has more.
A number of years ago a local woman drowned three of her children and went to a state hospital.
Years later she was released, had three more children and then drowned them.
There are many mentally ill who are not killers.
I do not think that mental illness is a excuse not to execute. The propensity to kill is there, and the public needs to be protected.
The husband was useless and should have been charged with criminal neglect of mother and children. As for the madwoman, she has something beyond postpartum psychosis, needs to stay locked down.
Wowwww, she had a good lawyer.
What a state Texas is, kill your kids and get away with it.
hopefully they won’t release her
She’s here in the State Hospital in the town where I live. Scuttlebutt says she’s on medication and now knows what she did. I can’t imagine wanting to go on living realizing that you’ve murdered your own children.
The 36-year-old mother suffered from postpartum psychosis, the most severe and rarest form of postpartum depression.Tsunami of BullSh*t Alert!
She should have been executed years ago. I could care less if she was crazy or was not crazy. She is a demon.
It’s hard to believe what it’s like living with a control freak husband. My dad literally drove my mom crazy. She hears voices that tell her to do things; she believes the voices are from God. Thankfully thus far the voices have only told her to write things and give Special Messages to pastors.
I never believed any of the whole insanity claims until after I had to live through the nightmare. For those who haven’t been there, please be thankful.
She had gotten out of bed around 8:10 and had waited for her husband, Rusty, to leave for work at nine. The children were all awake and eating cereal. Andrea had some, too. Once Rusty was gone, Andrea went into the bathroom to turn on the water and fill the tub. The water came within three inches from the top.
Then one by one, she drowned three of her sons, Luke, age 2; Paul, age 3; and John, age 5. She put them in facedown and held them as they struggled. As each one died, she then placed him face up on a bed, still wet, and then covered all three with a sheet. Each had struggled just a few minutes. Next was six-month-old Mary, the youngest, who had been in the bathroom all this time, sitting on the floor in her bassinet and crying. When Andrea was finished with Mary, she left her floating in the water and called to her oldest son, Noah.
He came right away. ”What happened to Mary?” he asked. Then apparently realizing what his mother was doing, he ran from the bathroom but Andrea chased him down and dragged him back to the tub. She forced him in face down and drowned him right next to Mary. She admitted in her confession that he had put up the biggest struggle of all. At times he managed to slip from her grasp and get some air, but she always managed to push him back down. His last words were, “I’m sorry.” She left him there floating in a tub full of feces, urine and vomit, where police found him. She lifted Mary out and placed her on the bed with her other brothers. Andrea gently covered her before calling the police and her husband. It was time.
Had the children done something to make her want to kill them? The officer asked.
No.
You weren’t mad?
No.
She admitted that she was taking medication for depression and she named her doctor, whom she had seen two days earlier. She believed she was not a good mother because the children were “not developing correctly.” She’d been having thoughts about hurting them over the past two years. She needed to be punished for not being a good mother.
The questioning officer was confused. How was the murder of her children a way to achieve that? “Did you want the criminal justice system to punish you?” he asked.
“Yes.”
She had almost done the same thing two months earlier, she admitted. She had filled the tub. Rusty was home at the time, so she just didn’t do it.
The officer asked for the birth dates of each of her children and then stopped the tape.
The media soon learned that Andrea had suffered from depression for at least two years and had been hospitalized for attempted suicide.
By the end of that first awful day, Andrea Yates was charged with capital murder for “intentionally and knowingly” causing the deaths of three of her children, using water as a weapon. She was not charged in the deaths of the two youngest boys. There was no indication on this report, says Spencer, that she suffered from mental illness.
Yet Rusty was telling the media that she had suffered bouts of serious depression since the birth of their fourth child two years earlier.
In fact, her most recent psychiatrist, Dr. Mohammed Saeed, had called Rusty on the day of the drownings. He appeared to be stunned and apparently wanted to make it clear that he had believed that Rusty’s mother was always at the home.
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/women/andrea_yates/2.html