“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! Couldn't I have killed just one to fulfill the prophecy? Couldn't I have offered Mary?”
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Yates's alibi for why she murdered her kids.
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