Psychiatrist Warned Yates Against Having 5th Baby

CBS2CHICAGO ^ | 07 JULY 2006 | AP

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

I have compassion for the insane

I suppose you have compassion for Jeffrey Dahmer and other serial killers too? After all they claimed insanity at their trials too.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Many angry, frustrated parents have shaken their children to death

Really? Why haven't I read news accounts of them?

[Graybeard58]

If a man had done what Adrea Yates did ,you would want him to die painfully.

No.

I have been consistently against the death penalty all my adult life.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

I’d like to know the husband’s contribution, role and accountability for this. He knew her problems after the 4th child and yet impregnated her a 5th time (bad judgment on his part) and then didn’t even see fit to supervisor her, not leave her alone with the children or follow up to make sure she got the help she needed knowing her history of suicide attempts and depression. Perhaps he is not accountable for the murders but he is at least guilty of being oblivious to the obvious.

Rusty Yates did not help this woman by continuously impregnating her. If he needed sex, he should have used birth control. When he was interviewed on tv, he appeared to be intelligent and well-groomed. Didn't he notice his wife had "filthy hair" and was acting like a mental patient? The murder was shocking. This woman can never be let out. It's too bad the husband was such a self-obsessed jerk. (IMO)

[sgtbono2002]

Sure its all the mans fault we all know that.

[truthkeeper]

I noticed the hair the first time I saw her, so I think it's a safe bet she had not been bathing either. Apparently her husband was blind to the obvious.

[mickie]

I understand that "Rusty" is either engaged or already married again.

He should be arrested and tried as an accomplist.

[Moonman62]

She's crazy as an crap house rat. Unfortunately, our legal system doesn't deal with crazy folks very well nor does society, since she was still allowed to run around nutty until she did something heinous

Perhaps, one day when we have the technology to specifically identify most diseases in the brain that will change.

[after dark]

"I have been consistently against the death penalty all my adult life."

Good!You have more patients with evil people than I will ever have.You are either a Saint or you are evil.

I am bothered by the psychiatrists description of Andrea Yates hair. I am willing to bet that the psychiatrist is either a blond, a red head or close cropped . Whatever she is , she tied the condition of Andrea Yates' hair with her opinion Andrea Yates should have no children. I do not want the condition of a woman's hair to become a determining factor as to whether she is allowed to have children. That the psychiatrist was caught lying about observing Andrea Yates with skanky hair makes the psychiatrist seem strange to me. The psychiatrist is taking advantage of this case.

[durasell]

Probably not. There are a lot of people running around with heads full of bad wiring. It's just much simpler to attribute their actions to broad terms as "evil" than to believe we're just machinery.

[after dark]

>Perhaps, one day when we have the technology to specifically identify most diseases in the brain that will change.

Do you ever worry that such technology could end up like phrenology?

[Graybeard58]

Good!You have more patients with evil people than I will ever have.You are either a Saint or you are evil.

I am neither.

I have heard every concievable argument pro and con. I don't discuss or debate my position here, but I don't hesitate to state it either.

Pro death penalty members are in the huge majority here and I respect their opinions, whether they respect mine or not.

[jdm]

"Really? Why haven't I read news accounts of them?"

They're much harder to prosecute. Louise Woodward is but one example.

[Moonman62]

Do you ever worry that such technology could end up like phrenology?

No, we already have card readers and psychics to fill in that void. If we worried about the study of the brain devolving into such nonsense we'd never make any progress.

[Moonman62]

I think we'll discover that the mind is more than just machinery.

[after dark]

A few years ago one of my states forensic experts was caught faking evidence. No one was ever put in jail or in a nut house on the word of a psychic or a card reader. Scientists are powerful ,so they need to be more careful than psychics or card readers.

[Pikachu_Dad]

I understand that "Rusty" is either engaged or already married again. He should be arrested and tried as an accomplist. For what? Is getting engaged a crime now? Or perhaps it is the crime of being married to a mass murderer? Or perhaps just the crime of being a man?

[Pikachu_Dad]

I have been consistently against the death penalty all my adult life.

Well at least you have been consitantly wrong your entire life.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Try pitying her poor dead children who she held under water and drowned while they were kicking and screaming.

I do pity them. However, their mother killed them because of her illness rather than out of malice, so I feel pity for her too.

Yet kill them she did. One after the other. She is evil and should be put down. She will never be right in the head again.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Since her husband knew her situation and knocked her up for the 5th time, he is an accomplice to the crime.

An accomplice? WRONG.