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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 · A mental illness that caused this mild-mannered woman to take the lives of her children because she believed she was saving them. An illness called postpartum psychosis. Andrea and Rusty Yates married in 1993 after dating for five years, and Rusty introduced Andrea to his preacher, Michael Peter Woroniecki.
Apr 2, 2014 · Who Is Andrea Yates? Andrea Yates was was treated for postpartum depression and psychosis and, after the birth of her fifth child, went into a severe depression. On June 20, 2001, she...
Jun 20, 2018 · Found not guilty by reason of insanity, Andrea Yates' treatment is to work through severe psychosis and possibly enter back into the community.
Aug 18, 2006 · Andrea Yates, the Houston woman convicted in 2002 of killing her five children, was found not guilty by reason of insanity in a retrial after her original convictions were overturned earlier this year.
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.
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Yates's attorneys offered evidence that she believed she was saving her children by killing them. From her deranged perspective, she was doing right and not doing wrong. This distorted belief was a product of her delusions and hallucinations.
