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Andrea Yates

17 quotesBorn Jul 2, 1964 · United States Of America · Female

Andrea Pia Kennedy Yates (born July 2, 1964) is a former resident of Houston, Texas, who confessed to drowning her five children in their bathtub on June 20, 2001. She had been suffering for some time with very severe postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis. She was represented by Houston criminal defense attorney George Parnham. Chuck Rosenthal, the district attorney in Harris County, asked for the death penalty in her 2002 trial. Her case placed the M'Naghten Rules, along with the Irresistible Impulse Test, a legal test for sanity, under close public scrutiny in the United States. She was convicted of capital murder. After the guilty verdict, but before sentencing, the State abandoned its request for the death penalty in light of false testimony by one of its expert psychiatric witnesses. She was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 40 years. The verdict was overturned on appeal. On July 26, 2006, the Texas jury in her retrial found that Yates was not guilty by reason of insanit

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It was the seventh deadly sin. My children weren't righteous. They stumbled because I was evil. The way I was raising them they could never be saved....Better for someone else to tie a millstone around their neck and cast them in a river than stumble. They were going to perish. I was so stupid!…

Seven Deadly Sins Righteous Evil Postpartum Psychosis Infanticide

They had to die to be saved.

Postpartum Psychosis Infanticide Mental Illness

I was afraid if I discussed it that it would happen. If it was—we had spoke [sic] to this treatment and started—he said that Satan can’t read your thoughts. But if you say them aloud, he will hear them and he’ll use them against you. Now, I thought I verbalized these fears that that they would come…

satan Mental Illness Hallucinations Infanticide Postpartum Psychosis

I put him in the water until he stopped breathing. I don’t know how many minutes it was or anything.

Murder Drowning Postpartum Psychosis Mental Illness Infanticide

Well, I thought I, they had given me some medicine, and I lay down for a nap, and I was kind of in between staying asleep and awake, and I thought I heard some voices come from the wall, and uh, I thought the voices said in a growl, in a gravelly voice, I thought he said, ‘Andrea, come here,’ and I…

satan Hallucinations Postpartum Psychosis Infanticide Mental Illness

I had these visions of harming Noah, and so I said, [inaudible] closing in. And I called Rusty at work and told him I needed him to come home. When he came home, I said I needed help, and I meant medical help. He thought I meant help with the children.

Mental Illness Postpartum Psychosis Infanticide

When he came up out of the water and said something, but I didn’t know what it was. It was like ‘I’m sor—,’ and I didn’t hear the rest. I don’t know if he was saying, ‘I’m sorry,’ or what.

Infanticide Mental Illness Postpartum Depression Drowning

The drownings. They, um, I drew up the water, and Rusty had already left for work that day, and I went in the bathroom, and I set Mary on the floor. And while I was filling the tub, Paul came in, and he sat on the tub and he said, he said “Mommy are we gonna take a bath today?” And then he asked…

Infanticide Drowning Mental Illness Postpartum Psychosis

Well, it needed to be done for the children’s sake, I felt.

Infanticide Mental Illness Postpartum Psychosis

Well, doing it would take them to heaven, and not doing it there’d be a risk of Satan messing them up.

Heaven satan Postpartum Psychosis Mental Illness Infanticide

I...I thought about what I was about to do and how it fit in there, the deadly sins. And how I would have done all of them after I drown my children.

Seven Deadly Sins Infanticide Mental Illness Postpartum Psychosis

Well I thought it was murder, and I felt I had done all the other sins, and now this one would be the last one, the last one of the sins.

Postpartum Psychosis Mental Illness Infanticide Seven Deadly Sins

There was [sic] the thoughts about the TVs, and cameras in the house, and afraid Satan would ruin my children through himself, and that maybe even that I had some Satan in me.

Mental Illness Postpartum Psychosis Hallucinations satan

Well, I didn’t want them ruined, and I was afraid being around him, they would continue to go downhill. And I thought I should save them before that happened.

Mental Illness Postpartum Psychosis Infanticide

Because I didn’t want them tormented by Satan like I was.

Mental Illness Postpartum Psychosis Infanticide

I didn’t think I was getting better. One time I drew water in the tub, and Rusty worried about that, why I did it, and he took me back in the hospital.

Mental Illness Postpartum Psychosis Infanticide

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