Who agrees with the verdict in the Andrea Yates trial?

Answer 1

he only person who should go to prison for the deaths of those children would be Rusty Yates, Andrea's husband. He knowingly left those children alone with someone who was clearly incapable of caring for them.

In my opinion, the not guilty by reason of insanity verdict is the correct verdict. Andrea Yates has had a long history of psychosis and other mental problems. It's not as if she just suddenly "snapped" one day and decided to kill her children.

Now that this verdict is in, hopefully she can get the help she should have gotten all along. It's a tragedy that it took the deaths of those 5 innocent lives in order for her to get correct medical treatment.

She had shown signs before the day she killed the children, yet those around her chose to ignore or minimize her problems. When her brother told Rusty (Andrea's idiot husband) that he was concerned about Andrea, Rusty said that Andrea just needed to pull herself up by her beltstraps and do better.

For someone with mental illness, you cannot just "pull yourself up" and be better. It takes medication and possible therapy.

Rusty refused to allow Andrea to get the help she needed. He wanted to live in a converted school bus instead of in a house, even though they had 5 children! He insisted that they follow the teachings of a cult leader who had very strange ideas about the world.

Andrea showed many signs of injuring herseIf and the children before the day she killed the kids. Rusty ignored those signs, and refused to put her on medication. She had a mental illness and couldn't take care of herself. As her husband, HE HAD AN OBLIGATION TO GET HELP FOR HER IF SHE WAS INCAPABLE OF GETTING THAT HELP!

I think Rusty Yates should be prosecuted for child endangerment since he left his children alone with a woman who obviously was unable to care for them. He's more guilty than Andrea.

Answer 2

Only an insane mother can do what she did, no doubt. But I think she should be locked up for life. They are saying that she will be evaluated from time to time and based on that result she might eventually be released. If it was upto me I would never, ever release her even if she gets cured or her mental illness. The children that she drowned wont have a second chance, why should she be allow to be healed and live life again. I think they should not spend a dime on her, rather keep her locked up till natural death. I hate her husband for not paying attention to the signs or mental illness and protecting the children, and for not taking her, at that point, to get treated. He's another as_hole.

Answer 3

Agree with the first answerer. Complete garbage. The woman was sane enough to drown FIVE children in a bathtub, in an order that would create the least resistance. As far as I'm concerned, she should NEVER see the light of day again.

As for the person who commented that they can't judge since the father agreed... HELLO, THE FATHER WAS JUST AS GUILTY. He was the person who continuted wanting kids; he was the one who knew of her post-partum depression and kept wanting kids; he was the one who let her alone in her depression to raise his five kids. That man has NO RIGHT to even COMMENT on this case. Evil Bastard.

Answer 4

If the father of the children agrees with the verdict, who am I to judge?

Answer 5

So, the kids were just an unfortunate sidebar to this. Five lives snuffed out, but Mom was loony, so it's OK.

Con she be institutionalized for the rest of her life, if she's that crazy?

Answer 6

Personally, I would consider anyone who would kill their children as insane. I just find it hard to believe she didn't know what she was doing was wrong, or try to get help.

Answer 7

I think they where right, anyone who claims to have been told to do something by a mythological figure is insane.

Answer 8

I think she should have gotten the death chair.

Answer 9

Ditto. She should be drowned.

Answer 10

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