Sorry if i offend anyone here but i just have to say that insanity in my opinion, is NOT a defense in the case of Andrea Yates. I mean, of course she’s insane to have killed her innocent kids – you’d HAVE to be. That’s just a given fact not a defense, people! It irks me that people seem to actually use that as a defense, like they don’t know right from wrong. Of course they do, they just don’t acknowledge that they do.

Do you know how many times i’ve felt pushed to the brink of just bursting in to a million tiny pieces out of frustration or sheer exhaustion from being a mother? But i stop, gather my wits and leave the room of my crying babies if i have to just to take a break!! If you’re that desperate and TRULY have no one to turn to, why not go take your kids to the nearest fire station where they accept kids without question? Or, drive over to your local pediatrician’s office and talk to someone. Do i pity Andrea Yates for “having gone through what she did”? HELL NO!! I pity her kids; her helpless, innocent, beautiful children. I am not saying she shouldn’t be forgiven, but perhaps she is too “insane” to KNOW she should ask for forgiveness?

Andrea Yates is not only a sorry excuse of a mother but of a person. And now she gets to go off and live her life, albeit in a mental hospital, but that’s only until she can be proven as “not a threat to society”. And what about those poor babies of hers she robbed of life? Six months old was the youngest….how fair is it that the KILLER gets to live and breathe but the six month old will never see her first birthday? You know what, we’ve all as mothers suffered some form of post-partum weirdness, I mean you have to just for the simple fact that your life is thrown for a loop now realizing you are in charge of little people. Post-partum blues is no excuse for killing your kids. I don’t care how “insane” you think you are. Not in my book.