What I wonder……
Andrea P. Yates is escorted from the court after being arraigned in Houston, June 22, 2001. Potential jurors in the retrial of Yates, who claims madness in the bathtub drownings of her five young children, challenged the legal definition of insanity in court Thursday, June 22, 2006. As in her first trial, Yates has pleaded innocent by reason of insanity in the June 20, 2001, drowning deaths of her children. Her earlier conviction was thrown out because of erroneous testimony. (AP Photo/Steve Ueckert, Pool)
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Each time I hear of a mother murdering her children, my first thought is "why didn't she kill herself instead?" Maybe that sounds cold-hearted, but not to me, not nearly as cold-hearted as what was done instead. It seems like, even if you were totally insane, some tiny voice, some maternal sanity, some iron will, SOMETHING would kick in.
I just don't get it, I'll never get it. Yeah, people say, "She thought it was a message from God, that she was doing the right thing." Ok, but she didn't go crazy instantly, she had been ill for a long time. So even if her totally irresponsible husband didn't have the where-for-all to not leave her in charge of the children, it looks like she herself would have realized she was a danger to them and removed herself from their care, or in that moment, the one right before she agreed with God or the Devil or what the hell ever, she would have driven a butcher knife into herself before allowing her demons to win.
I just don't get it.
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