Child killer Yates thinks kids are still alive..

Josephine96 · #1 Postby **Josephine96** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 9:33 am

Attorney: Yates Thinks Children Are Alive

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By PAM EASTON, Associated Press Writer

HOUSTON - Andrea Yates, serving a life sentence for drowning her children in a bathtub, asked her husband why he didn't bring them to visit her in prison last weekend, her attorney said Wednesday.

"She thought the kids were still alive," attorney George Parnham said.

Andrea Yates was transferred from the prison near Rusk to a Galveston hospital Monday night after refusing food and losing more than 20 pounds. Parnham said she voluntarily drank something Wednesday.

Her husband, Russell Yates, also said Wednesday that his wife thought their children, who ranged in age from 6 months to 7 years, were still alive.

"On top of the medication, and her chemistry, and her underlying illness, she obviously has a tremendous amount of guilt over her actions and taking the lives of our children," Russell Yates said.

"She has a hard time having hope. ... She lost everything she loved," he said. He described her as "overtly psychotic."

Within hours of Russell Yates leaving for work in June 2001, Andrea Yates called police and an ambulance to her home. She answered the door in wet clothes and told an officer what she had done.

She led the officer to a bedroom where the four youngest children's bodies were laid out on a bed. Police found the oldest, Noah, 7, floating face down with arms outstretched in the tub.

Psychiatrists testified that Yates suffered from schizophrenia and postpartum depression, but jurors determined she knew it was wrong to kill her children and found her guilty of murder in the deaths of three of them. She was not tried in the deaths of the other two.

Guest · #2 Postby **Guest** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 9:41 am

The insanity defense doesn't cut it for me. Why put her in a hospital and waste funding that could be used on a DECENT human being? Let her rot and waste away in federal prison for all I care.
...Jennifer...

GalvestonDuck · #3 Postby **GalvestonDuck** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 9:48 am

Decent human being? As far as I know, there aren't that many in prison, are there?

That funding comes from the prison system anyway so it's not going to be used anywhere else.

As far as I'm concerned, she can come here and be treated. I know one of the nurses who works in TDCJ's wing (TX Dept of Criminal Justice). They get patients; she gets paid. :wink:

Besides, like I said in an earlier post, the ACLU would have some heads on a platter if we didn't treat sick and injured prisoners. Heck, I'm willing to bet they at least *tried* CPR (or at least, documented that they did

) on Dahmer when he got beat to a pulp.

yoda · #4 Postby **yoda** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 10:27 am

It would be better if she were in a pyshcraitic (sp?) hospital. It would cost the taxpayers less.

GalvestonDuck · #5 Postby **GalvestonDuck** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 10:36 am

Might not. At least where she is now, she's secure and locked up (not that I think she'd have the strength to go anywhere in her condition).

Guest · #6 Postby **Guest** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 11:11 am

mrschad wrote:The insanity defense doesn't cut it for me. Why put her in a hospital and waste funding that could be used on a DECENT human being? Let her rot and waste away in federal prison for all I care.
...Jennifer...

Exactly, there are others out there who have REAL mental problems lead to crime. I don't think Andrea fits that criteria well at all, or she is most likely faking the notion that she "thinks" her kids are still alive. :roll:

StormCrazyIowan · #7 Postby **StormCrazyIowan** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 11:59 am

Oh she didn't eat? Darn, let her starve- that's her stupidity, I'll never feel sorry for someone as sick as her....

Yankeegirl · #8 Postby **Yankeegirl** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 12:01 pm

She should have got the death sentence! Sorry for having such a negitive attitude about her.. But she killed her kids! I dont care if she was nuts or whatever... She should have been killed the same way as she did her kids... May they rest in peace.. The poor babies!

GalvestonDuck · #9 Postby **GalvestonDuck** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 12:15 pm

Sorry, gang...I don't feel comfortable saying much else about the actual case (outside of what I've opined in previous posts, prior to her admission here). As long as she's a patient here, I need to respect her as one.

(For the record - no, I do not work in the TDCJ ward. However, it's all part of the same hospital system and their patients are our patients.)

Yankeegirl · #10 Postby **Yankeegirl** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 12:24 pm

I was going to ask if you had her in your hospital.. I heard about her on the news the other night, and I thought of you... I understand you cant say anything... Thats cool! BTW, its nice and dark out here... thundering and lightening... Maybe some rain??? Same in Galveston?

GalvestonDuck · #11 Postby **GalvestonDuck** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 12:48 pm

Yup, it's not like we all don't have an opinion on the case anyway (What? Me, not have an opinion?? :wink:

).

But during her time here, it's just unethical to talk specifically about her. However, I don't know anything outside of what's in the news.

As for rain -- yup, watching the clouds roll in as I type.

Guest · #12 Postby **Guest** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 1:23 pm

YankeeGirl wrote:She should have got the death sentence! Sorry for having such a negitive attitude about her.. But she killed her kids! I dont care if she was nuts or whatever... She should have been killed the same way as she did her kids... May they rest in peace.. The poor babies!

Three years ago when this ding-dong did the act, I felt like she should die for her actions. Guess what? I STILL do. She is just trying to get people to feel sorry for her.

Uh, Andrea, prisons do serve food, so stop being sorry-poose and feel lucky that you were not put to death. : :grr:

#13 Postby **george_r_1961** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 7:11 pm

if I would have had my way she would have gotten the "drug therapy" program Texas is famous for. Lethal Injection. She doesnt deserve to live. And her "starvation" ploy is just a way to get out of her prison cell and into a nice comfy hospital bed.

Yankeegirl · #14 Postby **Yankeegirl** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 7:21 pm

Well I am happy to see that I am not the only person who thinks she should have been hung... I think that the sentence that she got was a terrible tragedy in American history.. I think that her getting "off" easy was a disgrace.. When parents kill their kids, nuts or not, they should die the same way they did their kids... Same for the nut in North or South Carolina, who rolled her car into the lake with the kids in the back, and lied about it... I'm sorry.. I just need to vent about this! It makes me sick!

#15 Postby **george_r_1961** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 7:27 pm

Makes me sick too

breeze · #16 Postby **breeze** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 8:45 pm

C'mon, ya'll - give Duckie a break! HIPPA says
Duckie can't talk (Confidentiality Laws)!

She's probably on alot of psych meds...that's gonna
cloud up the 'ole memory, in a major way!

Josephine96 · #17 Postby **Josephine96** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 8:47 pm

By the way.. Susan Smith was the nut from the Carolina's lol :wink:

Yankeegirl · #18 Postby **Yankeegirl** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 8:50 pm

Yeah... Her... Nutcase... lol

Josephine96 · #19 Postby **Josephine96** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 8:54 pm

LOL Yes she was a nutcase

Child killer Yates thinks kids are still alive..

Child killer Yates thinks kids are still alive..

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