Children are a blessing to everyone. The joy of carrying the baby and experiencing the pains of labor is an experience that a mother never forgets. Not every woman can have children. Some have to adopt. All women will not have the experience to have a child whether that decision is by force (abortions at a young age, cancer in ovaries etc.,) or choice (A woman does not want to bear children). Yes there are things that can happen to further complicate a woman from loving her child(ren) unconditionally. But when does that mean to kill your children? What can a child do to you so badly that you resort to killing them? You had a chance to live the best life you could, your child did not. Andrea Yates had five children under the age of 10. One of her children did not even get to see their first birthday. This
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In January of 2005, Yates's conviction was overturned when the courts learned that Dr. Park Dietz, a prosecution psychiatrist, had made a false statement on the stand Dr. Dietz had claimed that Yates could have gotten the idea to kill her children and feign mental illness from an episode of Law and Order. However, that episode had never aired and there were some things that was exaggerated during the testimony. The appeals court felt that the false testimony could have influenced the jury's perception of the case (Kesling, 2006). Although the psychiatrist that testified for the prosecution made false testimony about the state of mind of Yates, other psychiatrists say that she was completely when she decided to kill her children on that day (Parker, 2006). According to Parker Texas law defines insanity as the inability to know right from wrong. At Yates' trial four years ago, Dietz testified that Yates knew that drowning her children was wrong. Jurors agreed with Dietz's opinion and rejected her insanity defense (Parker,
In January of 2005, Yates's conviction was overturned when the courts learned that Dr. Park Dietz, a prosecution psychiatrist, had made a false statement on the stand Dr. Dietz had claimed that Yates could have gotten the idea to kill her children and feign mental illness from an episode of Law and Order. However, that episode had never aired and there were some things that was exaggerated during the testimony. The appeals court felt that the false testimony could have influenced the jury's perception of the case (Kesling, 2006). Although the psychiatrist that testified for the prosecution made false testimony about the state of mind of Yates, other psychiatrists say that she was completely when she decided to kill her children on that day (Parker, 2006). According to Parker Texas law defines insanity as the inability to know right from wrong. At Yates' trial four years ago, Dietz testified that Yates knew that drowning her children was wrong. Jurors agreed with Dietz's opinion and rejected her insanity defense (Parker,