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

sweetlilwoodsby19

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.

volleyballchick

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. . .

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.

Amy H

The "it's not my fault" mentality in this country is sickening.

diehard0603

This woman is ill, terrible ill. In videos you could tell she loved her kids, she is insane and that is all the reason one needs to make her not guilty.

Answerman

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.

Mama Pastafarian

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.

okayokayokay

I hope she is going to be sent to a mental Institution so she can rehabilitate there

Speedfreak

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

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

Granny Good Witch

She's not getting away with it; she is hurting inside, her husband is hurting inside. It's time that something be done about mental illness, if she weren't eating all that chemical laden food that they are killing us with, she probably wouldn't be in the bad condition she is in.
go to http://www.organicconsumers.org & see who is behind Monsanto, you can blame Bush for this crime, too!

tfh777

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.

cheeky chic 379

She will spend the rest of her live in a mental lock up facility.
You would have to be insane to kill 5 kids.
I always thought she was.

johncondo2001

I thought they were tougher they that in texas

I may have misinterpreted but I believe she is still responsible in the sense that she is still going to jail?

Tinkertron

I don't know. I'm 50/50 on this issue.

angelicsanto

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.

twinki

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

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