This week on the Mothers of all Crime the topic is the tragic tale of Andrea Yates. Andrea was valedictorian of her high school class, a nurse, a wife, a mother to 5 beautiful children and a devout Christian. In many estimations she had it all. Unfortunately she also had severe mental health struggles. These mental health issues seemed to be exacerbated by each birth and post partum period. Mrs. Yates became a shell of herself and was hospitalized several times due to suicide attempts. There were brief periods of success while heavily medicated. Due to several factors (religion, wanting to conceive, noncompliance with drugs, delusional thinking) Andrea was slipping further into madness. She was under strict direction of her doctors to never be alone and certainly not to be alone with her kids. However, her NASA engineer husband chose to start leaving Andrea with the children for 1 hour each morning. This seemed to be going ok for a couple of weeks until one day Rusty Yates received a call that would shatter his entire world. Andrea had been alone with their 5 children for less than an hour when she told her husband to come home. He arrived on a truly horrific scene. Andrea had drowned all of the children. Rusty lost his children and essentially his wife that day. She would never be free again. We discuss the two trials of Andrea Yates and our feelings on the Texas judicial system. This is a truly heartbreaking case that allowed us to discuss topics from religion, motherhood, mental health, family support and many more. What do you think would be a fair "punishment" for such a mentally ill person who has done something so terrible?
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