I just read this from the “Hotline” section of a local newspaper.
IT WAS AN EXTREMELY sad day for America and its children yesterday when Andrea Yates was ruled not guilty by reason of insanity. She will be out on the streets again someday in the future, and possibly have children again sometime in her life. How very, very sad. I'm disgusted by our legal system.
Andrea Yates is, of course, the woman who killed her five small children by drowning them in the bathtub.
A terrible and awful crime indeed but she is clearly insane. I could not imagine a more perfect test to determine someone’s sanity than asking them:
“Have you ever drowned any of your children in the bath tub?”
If the answer is “Yes”
Bingo! Lunatic in the room.
Now move straight from criminal proceedings to a mental health issue.
Show some compassion will you? The woman did an unimaginably horrifying thing but is obviously suffering from a very sick mental condition which has clearly been inflamed by her religious beliefs. If you want to be angry with someone it should be directed at the religion that instilled in her those hateful thoughts.
She told a jail psychiatrist this …
"My children were not righteous. I let them stumble. They were doomed to perish in the fires of hell"
This was told to Dr. Melissa Ferguson, the medical director of psychiatric services at the Harris County Jail. Read more here...
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