What a beautiful family she had :(
Yates should be given the old Andy Sippowitz's push her head down in the toilet trick three time a day for the rest of her life.
I hate that. Guilty but insane I can understand, but just because you lose your mental capacity, it doesn't make you innocent.
I expect that this complete charlatan and liar, Park Dietz, will not be prosecuted for perjury, will not serve any time in prison and will be paid as an expert witness at other trials in future.
I hope that the truth about this fraud is spread far and wide, so any prosecutor faced with him on the witness stand can make him admit before the jury that he is a perjurer whose testimony is worthless.
Think she'll stay?
They need to let Scott Peterson out too. He had some sort of depression or whatever I'm sure, it's time to let all the killers out of jail if that nut-case vicious murderer of babies is out.
As I recall, after she drowned the children, she called her husband at work sounding pretty grim. He asked if something was wrong, and she said yes. He asked if it was with the kids, and she answered yes. He asked which one, and she answered words to the affect of "all of them; you'd better come home right away." Sounds to me like the actions of someone who knew exactly what she had done, and that it was bad - hence knew the difference between right and wrong. Doesn't sound like insanity to me.
Insanity may make you legally "not responsible" for your crimes, but it should guarantee that you never walk free again. Someone who is insane is always a risk to the rest of the world... and you'd have a hard time convincing me that Scott Peterson is a risk to anyone else.
----She should have at the very LEAST been given life with out the possibility of parole. This woman was clearly 3 sandwiches short a picnic and to allow her bail for ANY reason says that those babies' rights were not as important as their murderers' are. This case reminds me a little of Susan Smith, that drove her car into the water and left her babies to drown strapped in their carseats. She killed 2 and gets a stiff sentence. Yates kills 5 and gets molly-coddled. What messege are they sending? If you kill in bulk, you get 50% off of your conviction?
Got to love the replies on this thread.
Andrea Yates should spend the rest of her life in a mental institution. My opinion. Hubby and her(diminished capacity), rejected doctor's opinions that she should not have any more children, due to post partum depression already present. The husband also rejected the electroshock therapy offered. On one hand, Andrea could have actually ended up a vegetable, otoh, those babies would still be alive.
Myself, and others who have discussed this, have watched her husband's demeanor during this tragedy. We find his behavior rather odd.
What struck me today with all the discussion about Andrea's release, was all the "just trust me" being thrown about. If she were a man, I doubt seriously that so much "just trust me" would have been allowed.
Everyone knows she is very mentally ill, but "just trust me" that she'll be taken to the Rusk mental hospital and "just trust me" that she'll voluntarily commit herself and "just trust me" that the $20,000 bond will be paid -- that was incredible to see in a court room!
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dont worry... when this life is over... The GOOD LORD will drown her ass in the lake of fire for killing those poor innocent children... Her husband too... I cant believe he said, "She finally did it!" What the heck??? I have three boys, and I suffered from Post Partum with my first born, and the baby I have now. The PostPartum with my first born, u do get the feelings to hurt urself. BUT... I would never hurt my kids. I would kill myself before even THINKING about hurting any of my precious little boys. This is just SICK. When I suffered from PPD, I cried all the time, I didnt feel like picking up the baby, it was like... I was here physically, but not mentally... I just didnt feel like picking up the baby... HOWEVER, I did not feel like I wanted to hurt my child. With my last baby, I had PPD, too. I just cried a lot.. that's it... But taking care of him was still a joy even though i was still a little sad, I didnt feel like hurting myself or my child.
Do I believe she should get the death penalty?? My answer to that is... There is no revenge that man can take on each other, because GOD'S vengeance will be even worse than what we could ever do to each other. So, I say let the Lord handle this one, BUT... she AND her husband should serve TRIPLE life sentences in Jail..
Thing is, even when u are depressed, u still know right from wrong.
Prison chow must be pretty good..!