Killing of her young

Andrea Yates, wife and mother of five, felt she was a failure at being the perfect mother and was unfit to produce perfect children. Therefore, she took fate into her own hands and drowned her children, giving up on motherhood. Psychologists blame it on postpartum depression; therefore, she may have been insane. Texas law states that sanity rests solely on the ability to know right from wrong. Therefore, Yates is a villain, guilty of the charges of killing her children because she understood right from wrong and the consequences for her actions.
Yates told police that their deaths were she and Satan’s punishment for “not being a go...