The Murdering Mother You HAVEN'T Heard About

Revealed Truth ^ | 01/07/2005 | Ed Mick

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The Murdering Mother You HAVEN'T Heard About

By now you have probably heard that Andrea Yates' conviction for killing her five children has been overturned by the Texas 1st Court of Appeals.

It seems that some psychiatrist testified that Yates once watched a TV show that never really existed. So of course her conviction for five murders was overturned. Makes perfect sense to me.

I think the Texas 1st Court of Appeals might want to plead Insanity.

Anyway, you probably HAVEN'T heard about an arguably much worse miscarriage of justice handed down on the same day in my home state of Illinois.

In June of 2003, 18 year-old Jenny Sotomayor gave birth to a baby girl. She had hidden the pregnancy from her family, though, so when the baby started to cry, she suffocated him....and flushed him down the toilet.

She was properly charged with first degree murder. This past November, though, for reasons I do not know, she was convicted only of involuntary manslaughter, which carries a prison sentence of up to 14 years.

Given the utterly vile and sociopathic nature of her act and the fact that the victim was a defenseless infant, 14 years seems like a pretty light sentence to me. But that's the harshest sentence she could have received.

She finally came up for sentencing yesterday. So, did she get the full 14 years? Did the judge cut her some slack for her youth and cut it back to 10 years? Did she get a particularly soft-hearted judge and escape with just 5 years?

No. Jenny Sotomayor - who suffocated her baby and flushed it down the toilet - was sentenced to "four years of intensive probation."

At least Yates will have to face a new trial....

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Remainder here.