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	Andrea Yates - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Andrea Pia Yates (born July 2, 1964) is a woman from Houston, Texas, USA, who is currently serving a life sentence for methodically drowning her five children (ages six months to seven years) in a bathtub on June 20, 2001.
		Yates was found guilty but was spared the death penalty, instead receiving a life sentence with eligibility for parole in 35 years.
		Andrea's psychiatrist, Dr. Eileen Starbranch, testified that she urged the couple not to get pregnant again to avert certain future psychotic depression, but the procreative plan taught by the Yates' preacher, Michael Peter Woroniecki, a doctrine to which Rusty Yates subscribed, insisted she should continue to have "as many children as nature allows".
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Andrea_Pia_Yates (281 words)

	COURT TV ONLINE - Texas v. Andrea Yates
		Court TV Andrea Yates had a history of suicide attempts and was so psychotic that her delusions drove her to drown her children in their bathtub, Yates' attorney told jurors Monday as her capital murder trial got under way.
		Prosecutors seeking the death penalty for Andrea Yates agreed she suffered from a mental illness but contended she was well aware her actions were wrong when she held each of her children beneath water until they could no longer breathe.
		Yates, 37, fidgeted and pulled at her fingers as she sat at the defense table.
	www.courttv.com /trials/yates/021802_ap.html (523 words)

	Andrea Yates - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Andrea Pia Yates (nee Kennedy) (born July 2, 1964) of Houston, Texas, United States, killed her five small children by drowning them in the bathtub of their family home.
		On July 26, 2006, Yates was found by a Texas jury to be not guilty by reason of insanity.
		Although the defense's expert testimony agreed that Yates was clearly psychotic, Texas law requires that in order to successfully assert the insanity defense, the defendant must prove that he or she could not discern right from wrong at the time of the crime.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andrea_Pia_Yates (873 words)

	Postpartum Support International (PSI)
		Yates was found guilty, she was sentenced to life in prison, then a mistrial was declared.
		Yates reported to the staff that she was overwhelmed living in a converted Greyhound bus with her growing family of 4 children, 3 of whom slept in the luggage compartment.
		Yates that Andrea smelled like she had not bathed in days and paced "like a caged animal." Unfortunately, the public is not well-educated about recognizing mental illness and getting proper help.
	www.postpartum.net /spinell-cbs.html (2740 words)

	Luke David Yates (1999 - 2001) - Find A Grave Memorial
		Andrea Pia Yates had made the call to 911 operators and told them "I just killed my children." Earlier in the morning Andrea Yates filled a bathtub and, one by one, methodically drowned her sons: Luke, two years old; Paul, three years old; John, five years old; and one daughter, Mary, six months old.
		Andrea was diagnosed with depression in 1999 and later she was diagnosed with postpartum depression which, it is claimed, led to her killing her children.
		Andrea Pia Yates was found guilty of capital murder on Tuesday March 12, 2002.
	www.findagrave.com /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=22820 (409 words)

	Andrea Pia Yates - Law, Power and Justice
		Andrea Yates, the Texas woman accused of killing her five children by drowning them in a bathtub, has entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity to capital murder charges.
		Yates was present in the courtroom when the plea was made, but her lawyer made the plea for her.
		Yates’ husband and her lawyer, however, maintain that Yates is in a psychotic state and cannot even communicate.
	www.cjjohns.com /lawpowerandjustice/articles/andreayates.html (603 words)

	CNN.com - Yates found guilty of murdering her children - March 13, 2002
		Yates was found guilty of two counts of capital murder for the deaths last summer of Noah, 7, John, 5, and Mary, 6 months.
		Andrea Yates, who was heavily medicated with a cocktail of antipsychotic drugs during the trial, had attempted suicide twice and was hospitalized several times before she drowned the children.
		Yates' attorneys asked for a mistrial Tuesday after prosecutor Joseph Owmby told jurors "there was no question" Yates acted knowingly and intentionally when she drowned her five children.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/LAW/03/13/yates.trial (891 words)

	Andrea Yates - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Andrea Pia Yates (born July 2, 1964) is a woman from Houston, Texas, USA, who is as of 2006 currently awaiting retrial after previously being sentenced to life imprisonment for methodically drowning her five children (ages six months to seven years) in a bathtub on June 20, 2001.
		Yates confessed to drowning her children and her defense asserted postpartum psychosis as the reason she committed the killings.
		Andrea's psychiatrist, Dr. Eileen Starbranch, testified that she urged the couple not to get pregnant again to avert certain future psychotic depression, but the procreative plan taught by the Yates' spiritual mentor, Michael Peter Woroniecki, a doctrine to which Rusty Yates subscribed, insisted she should continue to have "as many children as nature allows".
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Andrea_Yates (589 words)

	January Trial Order (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Andrea Pia Yates shall be open to the public and the press.
		Andrea Pia Yates before return of the final verdict in the trial on the merits would generate pre-trial publicity that would interfere with the defendant’s right to a fair trial by an impartial jury.
		Andrea Pia Yates, members of the venire panel and members of the jury for the trial of this case may be interviewed, but have no obligation to talk to anyone, including members of the media, and may refuse all interviews or comment.
	www.justex.net /yates/010702YATESJANUARYtrialorder.htm (2297 words)

	Andrea Yates
		Andrea Pia Kennedy, the youngest of five children, with three brothers and a sister was born on July 2, 1964 to Andrew and Karen Kennedy of Houston Texas.
		Andrea believed eternity in hell was the punishment for suicide and she would rather die and spend eternity in hell than to further harm to her family.
		Andrea underwent a second set of 8 psychotherapy sessions with Willcott on 5/16/00 to focus on her father’s declining health, conflicts with her mother over her father's care and her conflict of wanting to be with her father instead of caring of her children.
	www.karisable.com /andreayates.htm (8093 words)

	Andrea Yates
		Andrea Yates was captivated and convinced, and she would later reference some of Woroniecki's statements when she testified in court.
		Over time, Yates' condition began to worsen: she often refused medication, refused to feed the children (and herself), hallucinated, read the Bible to frantic excess, and generally displayed the signs of a madwoman.
		Yates was convicted on three counts of capital murder and sent to prison, eligible for parole in 2041.
	www.nndb.com /people/026/000085768 (465 words)

	CNN.com - Texas mom indicted in drownings of kids - July 31, 2001
		A Harris County grand jury returned one indictment against Andrea Pia Yates, 37, for the killings of her sons Noah, 7, and John, 5, said District Court Clerk Fred King, and another for the death of the youngest victim, 6-month-old Mary Yates.
		Andrea Yates is charged with murder stemming from the drowning deaths of her five children.
		Andrea Yates is being held at a mental facility at the Harris County Jail.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/LAW/07/30/texas.children.killed (489 words)

	Andrea Pia Yates and the Sixth Amendment \| USNEWSLINK \| © 2003
		Andrea Pia Yates and the Sixth Amendment
		By the time Andrea Yates was led out of her house in handcuffs, her hair and clothing still wet from the drownings, the whole world was glued to their television sets in fascination that they were seeing the expressionless face of a brand new murderer.
		And while conscientious citizens familiar with the Yates case may harbor feelings of anger toward her for the crimes she committed, the fact remains that if the Yates case is allowed to progress even one more day given the egregious, unlawful, acts of her husband and her prosecutor, justice will not be served.
	www.usnewslink.com /yates.htm (1128 words)

	The Brent Morrison Column: Andrea Yates - Insane, Or Just Evil?
		At her competency hearing, Yates testified she waited until her husband left for work the next morning then began drowning the children one at a time, scheduling the deaths before the arrival of her mother-in-law.
		The “Andrea Pia Yates Support Coalition” sprung up in a matter of weeks, painting Yates as a loving mother stricken with an uncontrollable condition, like a bad tic.
		Yates has claimed to be demon possessed, that killing her children was “an act of mercy.” I have never known anyone who was possessed (though I am suspicious of my computer from time to time), but doesn’t evil tug at us all in one way or another, with thoughts or impulses that make us cringe?
	www.brentmorrison.com /020225Andrea_Yates.htm (618 words)

	Andrea Yates
		In March 2002, Yates was found guilty but was spared the death penalty, instead receiving a life sentence with eligibility for parole in 40 years.
		Andrea Yates told her jail psychiatrist, "It was the seventh deadly sin.
		Houston -- Andrea Yates stared at her cell wall the day after she drowned her five children in the bathtub and appeared to be talking to someone who wasn't there.
	www.mrsci.com /Psychiatry/Andrea_Yates.php (778 words)

	Mom who drowned 5 kids guilty of murder / Texas jury rejects insanity claim after only 4 hours, will now consider death ...
		Yates needed to convince the jury that she couldn't tell right from wrong when she killed the children -- even though she told detectives she understood what she had done and deserved to be punished.
		Yates stood trial for just three of the killings, a decision that leaves prosecutors the possibility of bringing her back to court in the deaths of Paul, 3, and Luke, 2, if they think her punishment is too light.
		Andrea Yates was haunted by guilt because she was too busy to care for her father, who died of Alzheimer's a few months before the children's deaths.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/03/13/MN200655.DTL (1040 words)

	COURT TV ONLINE - TOP NEWS
		Yates, 37, called police on June 20 and admitted drowning her children in the tub.
		Her husband, Russell Yates, told police his wife was depressed and had been treated for postpartum depression.
		NOW and the other groups in the Andrea Pia Yates Support Coalition plan a candlelight vigil on Sept. 11, a day before a hearing is scheduled to determine if Yates is fit to stand trial.
	www.courttv.com /news/2001/0827/yates_ap.html (317 words)

	Jury deems Yates competent enough to stand trial
		A jury today decided Andrea Pia Yates is mentally fit to stand trial on capital murder charges in the drowning deaths of her five children.
		Yates, whose medical records show she had been treated for major depression with psychosis off and on over a two-year period leading up to the deaths, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
		But she said Yates proved she understood the legal system when Steven Rubenzer, the court-ordered psychologist, pressed her on the details of the crime and she refused to answer without first talking to her attorney.
	www.crimelynx.com /yatescomp.html (799 words)

	Aug. 27: Several groups rally to assist Yates \| Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
		Several anti-death penalty groups and women's advocates are endorsing the Andrea Pia Yates Support Coalition, a group organized by the Houston Area National Organization for Women to help the Clear Lake mother accused of drowning her five children.
		Yates, 37, faces capital murder charges in the deaths of three of her children -- Noah, 7, John, 5, and Mary, 6 months.
		Yates had been on a series of anti-depressants and anti-psychotic drugs, her husband, Russell Yates, has said.
	www.chron.com /disp/story.mpl/special/drownings/1024747.html (550 words)

	Yates Team Aims for Life
		HOUSTON -- For 17 days, Andrea Pia Yates's attorneys tried to save her from a murder conviction, arguing passionately in court that she was psychotic and unable to distinguish right from wrong when she drowned her five children.
		Prosecutors agree that Yates is mentally ill. She told police that she drowned her children to save them from eternal damnation.
		In the guilt phase of her trial, the jurors dealt with the narrow question of whether Yates, despite her delusions, knew that killing the children was wrong.
	www.crimelynx.com /yatesaim.html (881 words)

	ifeminists.com > editorial > Rallying Around a Baby-Killer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		She said the Yates case revealed America as a "patriarchal society" where "women are imprisoned at home with their children." To NOW, stay-at-home moms are not merely poised to murder their children at alarming rates, they are also victims of white male culture whenever they snap.
		Yates is being cast as a political martyr, and with some success.
		Among the headline-grabbing measures HANOW is considering in support of Yates are: a candlelight vigil the night before the competency hearing; a Court watch; becoming "Friends of the Court...in conjunction with the desires of the defense team"; a march; and, a media watch of how the case is portrayed so that no "exploitation" occurs.
	www.ifeminists.net /introduction/editorials/2001/0828.html (834 words)

	COURT TV ONLINE - TOP NEWS
		Andrea Pia Yates, 37, stood quietly as her attorney entered the plea for her and said nothing during the brief court session.
		Yates, of Houston, faces one count of capital murder for the June drowning deaths of her two oldest children, Noah, 7, and John, 5.
		Russell Yates, who has supported his wife, has said she suffered from postpartum depression after the births of their two youngest children.
	www.courttv.com /news/2001/0808/yates_ap.html (410 words)

	Andrea P. Yates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Andrea Yates, 36, asked visiting siblings on Wednesday whether her children had been buried and told them during a Sunday visit that she feared she was possessed, her brother Andrew Kennedy told The Dallas Morning News in Saturday's editions.
		Yates told police that she killed the children because she thought she was a bad mother and they were hopelessly developmentally damaged.
		And in a scenario that would be hauntingly familiar to Russell Yates, a housewife in suburban Honolulu named Maggie Young drowned her five children in a bathtub while her husband was away on a mission in 1965.
	www.fathers.ca /andrea_p__yates1.htm (2012 words)

	NCADP: National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
		30, 2001 — Harris County District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal’s decision to seek the death penalty for Andrea Pia Yates is a violation of community standards and demonstrates a callous disregard for the circumstances that led to the tragic events in the Yates household, a coalition of groups opposed to the death penalty said today.
		Yates was charged with capital murder after the drowning deaths of her five children.
		Yates had a long history of mental illness that was aggravated by postpartum psychosis after the birth of at least one of her children.
	www.ncadp.org /press_release_11_30_2001_yates.html (740 words)

	Andrea Yates--Not a Women's Issue
		Yates and her defenders claimed she had murdered her children during a psychotic episode of postpartum depression.
		When a police officer came to her door, Yates immediately confessed, saying "I killed my children." Also known within a day of the incident was the fact that Andrea Yates suffered from depression and was receiving psychological treatment including medication.
		Rather than distance themselves from killers like Andrea Yates, NOW and other feminist organizations embraced her and her homicide as proof of the problems of being female.
	www.weeklystandard.com /Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/010agmve.asp (618 words)

	Andrea Yates: A Cry in the Dark
		After days of observing Andrea, talking to her family, and examining more than 2,000 pages of records from doctors, nurses, therapists and social workers, the answers become clearer.
		Andrea chased Noah through the house, dragged him to the tub, and drowned him alongside his dead sister.
		Yates was transferred to the psychiatric unit of Methodist Hospital, where James Flack, M.D., diagnosed her with "major depressive disorder, single episode, severe." This marked the beginning of a spiral into full-blown psychosis that was never adequately treated.
	www.oprah.com /omagazine/200202/omag_200202_yates.jhtml (907 words)

	NOW Names Andrea Yates Mother of the Year
		The National Organization for Women is speaking out on the Andrea Yates case to call attention to the need for better response by the medical community, law enforcement and the judiciary to the problem of postpartum depression and psychosis.
		If we, as a society, allow Yates' case to be treated as a freak crime, stand by while the state of Texas executes her, and then move on to the next sensationalized story, we will have failed in our responsibility to address the larger issues.
		The overheated dialogue and the repeated characterization of Andrea Yates as "a monster" and "evil" interfere with the kind of clearheaded dialogue we must have in order to prevent the infliction of such misery on another family.
	www.fortunecity.com /westwood/vivienne/438/rants124.html (1023 words)

	Houston mom could get death / Woman who says she drowned her 5 kids pleads insanity
		Yates faces capital murder charges in the drowning deaths of her children, whose ages ranged from 6 months to 7 years.
		If Yates is found competent, her attorneys will attempt to convince the jury she was insane on the morning her children died and was unable to distinguish between right and wrong.
		Yates faces two counts of capital murder: one for multiple killings, and a second for killing a child younger than 6.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2001/08/09/MN224745.DTL (567 words)

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