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Andrea Yates was possessed. Medical excuses made for her actions


She was following a bogus pastor and heard voices. Killing her children had nothing to do with "postpartum psychosis" another phony medical excuse for women when they do bad things like murder. She killed 5 kids and her husband made excuses for her and just won't deal with her evil. It does not matter how good she was, how bad her life with her father was or how she turned out. She planned everything to kill her children. Her false religious beliefs through her possession made her believe her kids were evil and she would save them. The Prosecutor Williford was right on target. Rusty Yates her husband to me is just as guilty. He ignored his wife's behavior and put the responsibility on the doctors. His wife was convicted of murder with the possibility of parole in 40 years and that was 2001

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This was a great post. Many ppl don't understand that religious doctrine mixed with a crazy combo of drugs can have this terrible "side effect". My uncle took one of the drugs she was on to stop smoking. He started to plot the murder of his wife and then himself. He was weaned off the meds and is fine now. I don't think she knew what she was doing, she didn't know that is was wrong. That dr should never practice again.

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