Posted on 03/01/2002 1:45:51 AM PST by MeekOneGOP
You know first hand how tough life is and how people can do sick things but there is that point where you can GET OUT and choose something,anything different....
She chose to stay and her "way out" was the death of those children.
I think like someone else said, she was getting back at him by killing their children. She's so repulsive to me !
She should want DEATH for herself - but she's too selfish.
LOL!! your post made my day! i argue for a living and i can't help but feel that even the most reason-challenged individual can be persuaded. i hereby give up on Mr. Illbay. Besides, PhilDragoo's post was so powerful, i don't know that more can be said.
In your ignorant opinion. That isn't how the law reads. The man is not guilty. He undoubtedly displayed poor judgement, but the ranks of those who find out too late they were ignoring or playing down in their minds serious warning signs are LEGION.
Everything you and everyone else stupidly and ignorantly pontificating on this subject is based SOLELY on your subjective perceptions.
You see this guy acting just plain weird, and in your lust to burn for vengeance against ANYONE but the perpetrator of this foul deed is all you need to construct this damnable fantasy based on nothing but foolish and completely uninformed emotion.
You are not privy to the facts of this case. You have no standing. Your opinion is worth a fart in a worldwind.
Thanks to God Above we have a justice system that grinds slowly and exceedingly fond, for pitchfork-and-torchlight parade candidates like you would bring this country to rack and ruin.
Which I would expect coming from someone so edgily emotional as yourself. CLAMORING for validation, are we?
The fact is that every word you have posted is just another example of the very sad state our society is in, where logic and reason have no place, where emotion, tears, lace handkerchiefs and sound bites are the coin of the realm.
The "Oprahization" of America is embodied in you, my dear.
Check out this thread. I think he's already moving on to finding a new woman to have children with. The sad thing is, he'll probably be successful at it.
Great points! When Rusty Yates' mother testified, she was asked to point out Andrea Yates in the courtroom. She identified her as "my precious daughter-in-law." Would you refer to someone who killed five of your grandchildren as "precious"?
I think you're exactly right. Mrs. Yates didn't work outside the home, she didn't do housework, she didn't take care of the kids so the mother-in-law came every day to do that. Mr. Yates was so busy having to provide for his family and take care of his kids after work, and run his wife to doctors, he didn't have time to see what it was really all about.
Yes --his poor judgement was to stay with this sick evil bitch. He should have dumped her long ago when she first showed her true self, taken what kids they had and found a good woman to share his dreams with. He wanted a traditional large family. Nothing wrong with what he wanted, he just gave his wife too many chances.
Supposedly Andrea had not hurt or killed children before, if Mr Yates did have some psychic ability and would have taken the kids away from the mother that day, he'd be arrested for kidnapping. If he tried to divorce her --since there was no injury to the kids in the past, she'd have won custody --no question. He did the best with what he had---he continued being the sole provider, he had his mother come in to care for the kids, he put up with a filthy house because his wife was too lazy to even clean. He gave her an evening off every week which is much more than most women get.
Actually, a few months ago the Dallas Morning News published information from Yates' hospital records about her rigid schedule and living conditions -- this was information that was in her records *before* she killed the kids. This is not info concocted for the trial.
The point is that working hard taking care of the family is not in itself punishing. Some people consider it to have been the happiest and most meaningful part of their lives.
It is obvious that a hard schedule does not make people kill their children.
It is also obvious that a CONTROLLING and mean husband does not make people kill their children.
If that were true, there would be few children left in most parts of the world.
It is difficult to believe that anyone knew in advance that Mrs. Yates would kill her five children. There may be an explanation for her actions, but that explanation does not lie in the realm of common, ordinary, normal rules of experience, emotions, and logic that apply to most people.
Whatever the explanation of her behavior, we must show that we cannot countenance infanticide.
I think he should have removed the kids --but legally I don't know how he could have.
Please let me know which cult they belonged to. I'm doing a position paper for our church about the local franchise of the Boston (International) Church of Christ. A member family of that group came home one day to their filth, vermin-infested trailor to find their three teenage children naked, and dead. The middle son had apparently offed the older sister, the younger brother, and himself.
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