I know what you are saying. I have compassion for those who are mentally ill, but that compassion comes to a screeching halt when the law is broken and/or murder is committed. People have become just too cowardly to take a stand against what they know to be wrong. And the result is that people like the Yates person? get to murder their children and anyone else just as long as they tell the dirt-face attorney they were insane at the time. And if they don't tell the attorney that, well by golly, the attorney WILL tell them...
Exactly and I am guilty of that myself. Even as I typed my above response and this one, I am thinking, "I don't want to sound to harsh as I understand mental illness, etc...".
But you are right, DRS, people, even me at times, have become to cowardly to stand up against what is wrong. She could have prevented herself from having any more children by using birth control, there were many things she could have done to help herself and her family.