What do al of you think about the verdict for Andrea Yates....not guilty!?

Question

She killed her kids.....murder, you can get away with anything in the USA today.

Answer 1

That really pissed me off!! Insane or not..she killed her little kids..SICKO...omg this just makes me so ANGRY. She should be drowned, just like she drowned her little children.

Answer 2

I truly think Andrea Yates is a woman who NEVER should have had 5 kids. She was mentally fragile to begin with and her husband was very selfish to allow her to get pregnant five times. I think they got the verdict right this time, but she should NEVER be allowed out. I don't think spending the rest of your life in a mental institution is getting away with anything. Such a tragic story.

Answer 3

The 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 4

You leave out by reason of insanity. She belongs in a hospital where she can get treatment. The proper verdict should have been Guilty but insane and that would have locked her up forever but in a hospital, if she is ever judged to be cured she would have served out the rest of her sentence in jail, I am not sure that Texas has such a verdict. After all that is the state that produced Bush.

Answer 5

she's not crazy, she has post partem depression. That doesn't make you see things and make you think your kids are possessed by the devil, that was a bullshit excuse. I think she needs to be drowned by someone she loves so she knows what her kids went through before they died. If this country switched the to "eye for an eye" kind of punishment, crime wouldn't be so high. She snuffed out 5 lives and what does she get? To stay at a mental institute at taxpayers expense until she is "rehabilitated." Then she'll be released to live out the rest of her life. The woman has no conscience, she won't think about those kids ever again. She should have gotten help, not had the kids, given them up, anything besides what she did. I hope she burns in hell for what she did.

Answer 6

I am here in houston and I would not debate her being insane but she planned the whole thing out. I think someone with a physchosis doesnt have all thier mind. Its hard for me to get my mind around how should could be that nuts and plan it out, never even mention having those thoughts and go as far as to chase the last one down and drag him in the bathroom also. I have thought all along she should have gotten the death penalty. The cops that were there on the scene said it was the most horrible thing they had ever seen.
Just the thought of it makes me sick.
Its funny to me how the worst crimes dont get the death penalty n ow shes been aquited. Wheres Justice?
I guess we will have to wait until judgment day.

Answer 7

Wanna know what kills me even more than the verdict that came down today?? That the first one was overturned because Law & Order broadcasted an episode that dealt with the issue of a mother killing her kids due to postpardom depression. Last time I checked, isn't Law & Order a FICTICIOUS TV SHOW???? She was guilty, and someone screamed foul over a TV show, and WON!!

The justice system of the United States. . . Gotta love it. . .

Answer 8

I haven't read much about all of the motions and what all the MD's said.

I would say that the Prosecuting Attorney didn't get an expert to equal her expert, and so.... we believe this guy over that guy.
That's what it boils down to...

Anyone who kills isn't someone we want next door; and I think any one who does kill has that instant of insanity when they are out of control.

But, listen to all the mass murders - we know they are insane, and yet we put them to death. She rates right up there as there are not that many female serial killers and she qualifies for that determination in my eyes. I just think society hasn't quite accepted that fact.

She is not curable. She will do nothing but cost the citizens taxpayer money. She may even kill someone where she is interned, or someone will kill her.

Answer 9

i'm no longer. In her case i think that the equipment labored. She is mentally sick and needs therapy. i'm below no circumstances excusing what she did, and that i don't sense that she would desire to ever be loose, yet this female became of course VERY sick while she killed her infants. There are too a lot of human beings being warehoused in prisons who would desire to be taken care of for psychological wellness themes. what's frightening are people who're put in reformatory, acquire no therapy, then are released quicker or later back into the inhabitants to dedicate different crimes. Then as quickly as they kill somebody, all of us ask your self what happened. Duh????? i does not hassle approximately punishment for Andrea Yates. She has to stay the the remainder of her life with the memories of what she did.

Answer 10

It is very scary to think that all you have to say is "I AM CRAZY!" and you can get away with killing 5 of your children. We have a problem in this country and we focus on helping other countries and not our own, I think that she should have gotten life in prison, so she could think about it forever, now she gets to have more children to murder. SAD

Answer 11

Americans chosen to serve on juries are often a scary bunch.

This verdict is but one of the reasons why that is true.