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Originally posted by Ryanamur:
I agree with the life sentence without the death penalty. However, I also think that the schrink who let her loose should have been charged with second degree murder, loose his licence and put away for 40 years. It's just too bad that you can't fry him for that because he's the real danger to society here!
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See, the thing is....Andrea Yates never got any real psychological treatment prior to kiling her children. She was depressed and suicidal but no one ever thought she would hurt the kids.
The state may yet charge her husband with Child Endangerment and Negligent Homicide since he was the only person who really had any idea of how sick she was, he was the only person who could pay for her treatment and he was the one who didn't help her and kept having children with her.
MagiK,
Living in Texas, I don't relish the idea of paying for her upkeep either but this woman seriously needs treatment.
I doubt she'll last the full 40 years before she makes parole, being the killer of her own children, but let's at least hope that she does make some headway in getting well and realizes what she has done so that she can ask for forgivness with the full understawnding of her actions before she is taken out of this world.