This woman from Houston, Texas drowned her 5 children on June 20, 2001 in her home bathtub. Her reason for doing so was because she had constant voices in her head from the devil telling her to do so because she was a “bad” mother and this was the best thing to do for the children. She knew how to carry out the plan and did it in a specific period where she knew no one would be home with her and the children. After she drowned them, she calmly called the police and told them the tragedy she had committed. In 1999 she was treated with postpartum depression and psychosis. Her husband Rusty Yates claimed that this was not really her wanting to commit the crime, but that it was all due to her mental illness that was getting worse day by day. She pleaded innocence by reason of insanity, but it was rejected by the jury and they found her guilty sentencing her to life in prison. Years later she was found not guilty by reason of insanity and was transferred to a hospital to receive treatment
This woman from Houston, Texas drowned her 5 children on June 20, 2001 in her home bathtub. Her reason for doing so was because she had constant voices in her head from the devil telling her to do so because she was a “bad” mother and this was the best thing to do for the children. She knew how to carry out the plan and did it in a specific period where she knew no one would be home with her and the children. After she drowned them, she calmly called the police and told them the tragedy she had committed. In 1999 she was treated with postpartum depression and psychosis. Her husband Rusty Yates claimed that this was not really her wanting to commit the crime, but that it was all due to her mental illness that was getting worse day by day. She pleaded innocence by reason of insanity, but it was rejected by the jury and they found her guilty sentencing her to life in prison. Years later she was found not guilty by reason of insanity and was transferred to a hospital to receive treatment