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Andrea Pia Yates (née Kennedy; born July 3, 1964) is an American woman from Houston, Texas, who confessed to drowning her five children in their bathtub on June 20, 2001. [2]
Jul 7, 2018 · On 20 June 2001 in Houston, Texas, Andrea Yates drowned her five children one after the other in the bathtub of her family home. Four sons, John (5), Luke (2), Paul (3) and Noah (7), and one daughter Mary, just 6 months old. After the drownings, Andrea called 911 and told them she needed a police officer to attend her home.
Former nurse Andrea Yates, whose postnatal mental illness led her to drown her fi ve children, had her life sentence overturned at a retrial earlier this year, after successfully pleading insanity. Faith McLellan reviews the case and its implications for mental health in the criminal justice system.
Jan 1, 2017 · Despite the defense uncovering evidence of Yates’ history of postpartum depression and psychosis, the jury did not accept her insanity defense and convicted her of capital murder with a sentence of life in prison.
- Deborah W Denno
- 2017
Aug 28, 2024 · Although Andrea Yates has been in the State Mental Hospital for the past 18 years, she can go up for review every year to see if she is competent to leave the facility. However, she refuses to do so and decides that she wants to continue treatment (Parnham, 2017).
Mar 16, 2002 · Despite a history of severe mental illness dating back to 1999, former nurse Andrea Yates, aged 37, living with her husband in Houston, Texas, could face the death penalty if she is found guilty.
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Jan 13, 2005 · Andrea Yates, the Texas woman convicted in 2002 of drowning her five children in a bathtub, while suffering from postnatal depression, has been granted a new trial, after it was found that an expert medical witness for the prosecution had lied at her original trial.