Posted on 06/20/2011 4:28:53 PM PDT by Niuhuru
A mother who shocked America by drowning her five children in the bathtub may be freed by the end of the year, according to her lawyer.
Andrea Yates systematically murdered her children, aged between six months and seven years, at her suburban Clear Lake, Texas, home ten years ago today.
She then dialled 911 and told the first police officer who arrived at the house: 'I just killed my kids.'
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I think a lot of the husband's choices were not good for a woman in her mental state...and would have driven a sane woman crazy!
BTW, he remains in contact with her...but it didn't take him long to divorce her and marry again.
Surely you jest!
My guess is the MIL couldn't wait to get out of that hell hole and back to the motel! How much "help" was she if the house was dirty and cluttered?
You seem to have pictures in your head of her chained up in a dungeon by her evil family.
To me, having 5 kids and a miscarriage in a period of 7 years might be worse than being chained up in a dungeon. It's safe to assume that on top of her other mental issues, Andrea suffered from sleep deprivation.
That simply isn’t the case.
That simply is something we can only opine about because we weren't there.
I absolutely disagree. If you are crazy enough to kill you are crazy enough to be executed. The world cannot revolve around the worst case scenario.
I agree. In these cases I always wonder why the depression causes them to kill their children rather than themselves.
Crazy does not justify evil. She was of sound enough mind to do some meticulous planning. You are simply refusing th acknowledge evil of that depth can exist.
She's dangerous.
I believe it has been written that she thought she was an evil person and a bad mother and expected to be punished.
IMO, living with what she did is worse than any punishment that could be handed down in a court room.
She met the TX legal definition for mentally insane.
What if it wasn’t just postpartum related? Her father was mentally ill so if she gets out and is not compliant with her meds do we really want to trust her to be out in society again?
I for one don’t trust the shrinks at the Rusk state hospital to have a real clue after they released a paranoid schizophrenic murderer when he stabilized on meds. Guess what happened a few months later? The nutjob murdered a five year old boy.
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If it were only that simple.....This woman was mentally ill, and in no condition to make any wise choices. She had no support group—she was kept isolated. She was terrified of her husband, but had no place to go.
I followed this very carefully from the beginning. I lived in Dallas at the time it happened. When it first broke, I along with just about everybody else in the area, was horrified and thought the woman should go to the electric chair!
However, as we learned more and more about it over the next few months, I began to see things differently.
Since I also had 5 children, I knew what it was like to keep a lot of balls in the air at all times—but I had the loving support of a husband who came home from work and helped with the kids bath and bed time. It was then that I could relax and rest up for the next day. This woman had none of that.
Instead, she had a vicious, controlling husband that not only didn’t help her or give her any relief from the kids, he punished her for every little thing she did or didn’t do that he considered an infraction of his rules.
You can’t simply walk out the door and not go back. You especially can’t do that if your every move is being controlled and you have been reduced to a quivering mass, afraid to make any “wrong” moves.
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If your alternative is to kill five children you certainly can.
She figured out how to drown those 5 kids between the hour her husband left for work and her MIL was scheduled to arrive to help her out with the kids.
She then immediately called 911 and confessed to killing them and then called her husband to say she did it.
She was with it enough to plan and murder her children in a methodical manner. She was with it enough to wait for a time when she was alone to pull it off.
Dude! If she did that to her own kids W-T-F do you think she’d do to you or me?
Agreed. Imho, she did it out of anger for her husband. Revenge. She’s one scary woman.
“But then, 70 years ago we just killed “mental defectives”..”
Wrong, we just killed MURDERERS.
People are more important than a person’s mental state. Something modern “progressives” -such as yourself obviously- do not appreciate.
I don’t get the angst over this woman. She has crossed the line of acceptable behavior. Anyone who can rationalize murder is simply not someone to ever be trusted in society again.
Agreed. I wouldn’t want her living next door to me.
We followed this case when it happened how could Houston folks avoid it! I have trouble imagining that she could ever live outside an institution but the one to blame or at least share the blame is her former husband.
His treatment of this woman was absolutely horrible and he needs to be behind bars for abuse for life. He is a MONSTER!
“she will have to live with the memories of what she did.”
BS, she’ll blame her husband just like some on this board.
If she had free will to kill she had free will to walk away.
She chose murder as her freedom.
Fry the bitch!
The least the state could do is lock her up for life.
Too late.
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