{"id":1424120,"date":"2022-04-07T14:59:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T18:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1424120"},"modified":"2022-04-07T14:59:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T18:59:42","slug":"andrea-yates-who-drowned-her-children-20-years-ago-continues-to-decline-possibility-of-release-from-mental-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/andrea-yates-who-drowned-her-children-20-years-ago-continues-to-decline-possibility-of-release-from-mental-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrea Yates, Who Drowned Her Children 20 Years Ago, Continues To Decline Possibility Of Release From Mental Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fandrea-yates-who-drowned-her-children-20-years-ago-continues-to-decline-possibility-of-release-from-mental-hospital%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1424120&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-71521992.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On June 20, 2001, Andrea Yates\u2019 husband left for work, leaving her behind with their five children: Noah, 7; John, 5; Paul, 3; Luke, 2; and Mary, 6 months. Yates had been receiving psychiatric treatment for several mental health conditions, and her husband had been told that she needed round-the-clock supervision.<\/p>\n<p>Once she was alone, Yates drowned each of her children in the bathtub. After drowning John, Paul, and Luke, Yates put them in her bed. She left Mary in the tub. At this point, 7-year-old Noah came in and saw Mary. He asked his mother what was wrong with the baby but soon ran. Yates caught him and drowned him, too, leaving him in the tub and placing Mary on the bed in John\u2019s arms.<\/p>\n<p>Yates, 37 years old when the crimes occurred, called 911 multiple times without giving an explanation before calling her husband, begging him to come home from work. Yates was arrested and charged with five counts of capital murder, People <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/crime\/andrea-yates-who-drowned-kids-in-bathtub-in-2001-annually-declines-release-from-mental-hospital\/?utm_source=facebook&#038;utm_medium=news_tab\">reported<\/a>, and she soon confessed to the crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Yates\u2019 defense argued that her postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis, and schizophrenia led her to murder her children, arguing that she should be sent to jail but to a mental health facility. In 2002, she was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>Following the verdict, Yates\u2019 defense attorneys appealed the verdict, which was overturned following a prosecution witness giving materially false testimony. The witness had claimed an episode of \u201cLaw &#038; Order\u201d showing a woman who drowned her children had aired shortly before Yates committed the crime. No such episode existed at the time, but \u201cLaw &#038; Order: Criminal Intent\u201d did air an episode based on the Yates case in 2004, years after the murders and the first trial. A new trial was granted, and in 2006, Yates was found not guilty by reason of insanity and sent to Kerrville State Hospital in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Before the second trial, Yates told a psychiatrist that she had purposefully waited for her husband to go to work because she knew he would have stopped her from drowning the children. Yates\u2019 husband told the same doctor that when he returned home that day, he found their dog had been locked up when it was normally allowed to run free. The psychiatrist surmised that Yates had locked up the dog to prevent it, too, from making it difficult for her to kill the children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough she was remanded to the mental facility more than 15 years ago, Yates can undergo a review every year to see if she is competent to leave the facility,\u201d People reported. \u201cNow 57, Yates opts each year to waive her right to be reviewed. PEOPLE confirms that she has never undergone review, choosing instead to continue treatment. Details of her treatment have not been released.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Yate\u2019s defense attorney George Parnham <a href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/andrea-yates-rusty-george-parnham-clear-lake-texas\/10802560\/\">told<\/a> ABC News that Yates is \u201cwhere she wants to be. Where she needs to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I mean, hypothetically, where would she go? What would she do?\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>He also <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/crime\/andrea-yates-now-she-grieves-for-her-children-15-years-after-drownings\/\">told<\/a> People in 2016 that Yates spends her days making crafts and then selling them anonymously, with the proceeds going to the Yates Children Memorial Fund, which was created by Parnham and his wife and helps women with mental health issues, particularly postpartum depression.<\/p>\n<p>Yates\u2019 husband divorced her several years after the murders, but told Oprah in 2015 that he forgave his ex-wife for her crimes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cForgiveness kind of implies that I have ever really blamed her,\u201d Rusty said then. \u201cIn some sense I\u2019ve never really blamed her, because I\u2019ve always blamed her illness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. Believe the same? <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">Become a member now and join our mission.<\/a><\/u><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 20, 2001, Andrea Yates\u2019 husband left for work, leaving her behind with their five children: Noah, 7; John, 5; Paul, 3; Luke, 2; and Mary, 6 months. 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