Andrea Yates Quotations

There are two tragedies, ... One is my children and the other is my wife.

the primary emphasis is on care and not security.

severe mental illness like psychosis can lead to a tragedy like this -- that people can see things that aren't real and hear things that aren't real and believe things that aren't real, and act in that distorted reality.

She loved our kids, ... kind, gentle person.

One side of me blames her because she did it, but the other side says she didn't because that wasn't her.

If they drop charges against her, then she'd go to a mental hospital and then the doctors would decide when she's well enough to go home, ... They've treated her like a serial killer, and my feeling all along has been it's a waste of the taxpayers' money to prosecute her.

I'd be the first in line to help the jury.

because she was having depression from having kids.

If it hadn't been by drowning while we were gone, it would have been smothering them at night or poisoning them at breakfast,

I was listening to the radio and they were playing some music in my cell. I heard a voice through the music.

I think everyone would lose again if they brought her back to trial, ... Although, if she does go back to trial she could be found not guilty by reason of insanity. To me, any way I look at it, it's good for her.

I said, 'Is anyone hurt?' She said, 'Yes.' I said, 'Who?' She said, 'The children. All of them,' ... My heart just sank.

My wife, she's really suffering, and I just ask that you say a prayer for her because she needs it. She's suffering right now,

methodically drowned her five children one by one in a bathtub.

We didn't see her as a danger, ... The real question to me is: How could she have been so ill and the medical community not diagnose her, not treat her, and obviously not protect our family from her?

It was the seventh deadly sin. My children weren't righteous. They stumbled because I was evil. The way I was raising them they could never be saved. They were doomed to perish in the fires of hell.

Severe mental illness like psychosis can lead to a tragedy like this - that people can see things that aren't real and hear things that aren't real and believe things that aren't real, and act in that distorted reality.

Every step of the way, they've treated her like a serial killer for no reason -- a hardened serial killer. And she's not. She's a loving mother who became desperately ill and really did the unthinkable,

Sometimes Andrea liked to take the hard road instead of the easy road.

a cruel dilemma which turned upside down her sense of right and wrong.

Apparently, patient and husband plan to have as many babies as nature will allow. This will surely guarantee psychotic depression.

They were not progressing the right way in school, and they had a problem with their manners, their social manners,

I remember little Paul, ... He had a boo-boo. Andrea put a Band-aid on it. It wasn't even a cut, but she was very loving.

Andrea is more upset now than before because she is getting better and realizes what happened.

The children were going to be tormented the rest of their lives, and they were going to perish in the fires of hell,