lkfraley wrote:
I can't believe they didn't find her guilty. She did it right? That is
for certain. So how can they find her not guilty? Crazy or not, she
killed her babies. She didn't have any right to do that to them. She
needs to be put away somewhere. If she ever had another child, she
would only do the same thing to them. I don't feel sorry for her.
Everyone has some kind of problems, but we don't kill our children
because our lives get us down. Give me a break. I don't care what they
do to her. They should just cut her hands off I guess, to keep her from
hurting more people. But I guess it's only the children she wants to
hurt. Good luck to everyone who comes in contact with her.
Sorry I have no sympathy for her. Why should I?
My first child died at 32 weeks gestation and I was horribly
devastated. I wanted him so much. I could never understand how someone
could take a child's life on purpose.
Oh well, it's not for me to figure out, that's up to God.
I don't think you should kill anyone, especially not children. Precious
little angels.
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Guilt is about responsibility and not just about if a deed is done or
not. Andrea Yates was insane at the time of the act with a clear
history of mental illness proceeding the killings. If you are not in
your right mind and can distinguish between right and wrong or more
precisely in this case think you are sending your babies to heaven so
they wouldn't grow up sinful, you are not responsible for your actions.
Responsibility depends on the ability to understand. It is the reason
we treat children differently than adults even if they commit similar
crimes, or animals who attack humans. We may kill them because they
have tasted human blood and are uncontrollable, but we are not
punishing them.

I too feel for the kids, but they were victims of postpartum psychosis
and other mental illnesses like perhaps schizophrenia that ran in
Andrea's family and Andrea being in the thrall of a cultish clergyman
Michael Peter Woroniecki.

By way of comparison Susan Smith was totally sane and clear headed when
she drowned her kids so that she could win the affection of a would be
boyfriend. Who indicated that he did not want to be saddled with
another man's kid. He was NOT involved in ANYWAY in those killings I
stress. What Susan Smith did was evil, what Andrea Yates did was the
result of sickness.

----Hunter