Andrea Yates Leaves Jail for Hospital
tiny dancer
By PAM EASTON
HOUSTON (AP) - Andrea Yates left jail early Thursday for a state mental
hospital where she will await her second capital murder trial for the
drowning deaths of her young children.
Yates' attorney posted her $200,000 bond, releasing her from incarceration
for the first time since the five children were drowned in the family
bathtub in June 2001.
State District Judge Belinda Hill set the bond Wednesday.
Yates, 41, didn't speak as she left the jail. She carried a brown paper sack
and wore jeans and a blue-and-white striped shirt as she entered a car with
her attorney and a private investigator for the drive to the mental
hospital.
Her attorney, George Parnham, said he would answer questions after returning
Yates to East Texas, where she previously spent more than three years at a
prison psychiatric unit.
The judge said she couldn't order Yates to commit herself to the Rusk State
Hospital, but said she set the bond based on Yates remaining there until her
March 20 trial. Once the trial begins, Yates will return to the Harris
County Jail. The trial is expected to last four to six weeks.
Yates faces capital murder charges for drowning three of the children and
has pleaded innocent by reason of insanity.
A jury rejected her original insanity defense in 2002 and sentenced her to
life in prison for the drowning of 7-year-old Noah, 5-year-old John and
6-month-old Mary. Prosecutors presented evidence about the drownings of
Paul, 3, and Luke, 2, but Yates was not charged in their deaths.
An appeals court last year overturned the convictions based on testimony by
the state's expert witness about a nonexistent episode on television's ``Law
& Order'' series. The expert, Park Dietz, said a show about a woman with
postpartum depression who drowned her children had aired shortly before the
Yates children were drowned.
yaffaDina2
tiny dancer wrote:
> Andrea Yates Leaves Jail for Hospital
>
> By PAM EASTON
>
> HOUSTON (AP) - Andrea Yates left jail early Thursday for a state mental
> hospital where she will await her second capital murder trial for the
> drowning deaths of her young children.
>
> Yates' attorney posted her $200,000 bond, releasing her from incarceration
> for the first time since the five children were drowned in the family
> bathtub in June 2001.
>
> State District Judge Belinda Hill set the bond Wednesday.
>
> Yates, 41, didn't speak as she left the jail. She carried a brown paper sack
> and wore jeans and a blue-and-white striped shirt as she entered a car with
> her attorney and a private investigator for the drive to the mental
> hospital.
>
>
> Her attorney, George Parnham, said he would answer questions after returning
> Yates to East Texas, where she previously spent more than three years at a
> prison psychiatric unit.
Question: will the psychiatric help at a state mental hospital be any
better than at a prison psychiatric unit?
> The judge said she couldn't order Yates to commit herself to the Rusk State
> Hospital, but said she set the bond based on Yates remaining there until her
> March 20 trial. Once the trial begins, Yates will return to the Harris
> County Jail. The trial is expected to last four to six weeks.
Does this mean she cannot leave until the trial since it is an
involuntary commitment?
yD
Cliff and Linda Griffith
news:1138902777.2...@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> Question: will the psychiatric help at a state mental hospital be any
> better than at a prison psychiatric unit?
I can't say for sure, of course, but I think the psychiatric help at Rusk
would be much better than in a prison psychiatric unit. Rusk State Hospital
has been in existence in one form or another since 1919. I grew up hearing
that it was a mental hospital for the criminally-insane. According to the
Handbook of Texas, though, that is only a part of the hospital.
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/RR/sbr3.html
Linda
DedNdogYrs
wasn't just a mean spirited person also, even before she developed the
mental illness, to do something so horrible like this. Not only did
she murder all five of her innocent helpless children, some of whom
were just babies, but did it in such a painful way. Basically, she
tortured them before they died. It wouldn't bother me if she grew old
in prison and died there.
Michael Snyder
Wasn't it Rusty who made her do it?
DedNdogYrs
I think it was some asshole religious fanatic Bible teacher who stirred
the pot before it boiled over.
DanaPointe
Where she should have been all along.
Scorpi...@attnospam.net
<tinyda...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Andrea Yates Leaves Jail for Hospital
>
>By PAM EASTON
>
>HOUSTON (AP) - Andrea Yates left jail early Thursday for a state
mental
>hospital
I can only hope that one of the mentals there will kill this sorry
excuse for a mother and save the tax payers some money. That would
be som great Karma for Ol' Andrea.
--
Scorp
It appears that the money has been moved in the
president’s budget to handle homeland security and the war
in Iraq, and I suppose that’s the price we pay.
Nobody locally is happy that the levees can’t be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us.
-- Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; New Orleans Times-Picayune, June 8, 2004.
http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002331.html
Alan Hope
>On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 11:48:35 -0500, "tiny dancer"
><tinyda...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>Andrea Yates Leaves Jail for Hospital
>>By PAM EASTON
>>HOUSTON (AP) - Andrea Yates left jail early Thursday for a state
>mental
>>hospital
>I can only hope that one of the mentals there will kill this sorry
>excuse for a mother and save the tax payers some money. That would
>be som great Karma for Ol' Andrea.
You're a pitiful excuse for a human being, and you don't even have the
excuse of mental illness. I hope she lives long enough for the
frustration to eat out whatever you have in the place of a heart.
--
AH
Cliff and Linda Griffith
news:b1kfu1ttjudkk0r5v...@4ax.com...
> >Andrea Yates Leaves Jail for Hospital
> >
> >By PAM EASTON
> >
> >HOUSTON (AP) - Andrea Yates left jail early Thursday for a state
> mental
> >hospital
>
> I can only hope that one of the mentals there will kill this sorry
> excuse for a mother and save the tax payers some money. That would
> be som great Karma for Ol' Andrea.
> --
> Scorp
ScorpionKing,
If you really wrote this yourself, I'm sorely disappointed. I thought you
were more compassionate than this msg indicates. If they're all "mentals",
they're there for a valid reason. Killing one or another is merely another
result of their illness, IMO. Not a "good thing."
Linda
Scorpi...@attnospam.net
If they kill Andrea Yates, it would be a good thing. She should have
gotten the DP.
Alan Hope
>>> >By PAM EASTON
>>ScorpionKing,
>>Linda
Well she didn't. Live with it.
You feel smart enough to second-guess the courts? Then why bother
having courts in the first place? Why not just bring the perps up
before Scorpion King, let him kill them there and then?
--
AH