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symbioidljHOUSTON (Reuters) - A 36-year-old woman suffering a long bout of postpartum depression confessed to killing her five children in their Houston home on Wednesday, a crime police said could have her facing the death penalty.
The four boys and a girl, 6 months to 7 years old, appeared to have been drowned in the bathtub, they said.
The woman, Andrea Yates, has taken medication for depression since the birth of her youngest boy two years ago, but John Cannon, a spokesman for the Houston Police Department, said the role her illness might have played in the crime would not be clear until she gave a formal statement.
A television report showed the longhaired, bespectacled Yates, her shirt torn in many places, being led away in handcuffs by police.
She was not charged for the crimes, but Cannon said, ``Rest assured, it is going to be carried as a capital murder case.'' In Texas, capital murder carries a maximum penalty of death by injection.
Yates was wet, breathing heavily and clearly disturbed when the first officer arrived on what he thought was a routine welfare check, Cannon said.
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This is the part that bothers me:
``Rest assured, it is going to be carried as a capital murder case.''
What the fuck? Rest Assured? Mmmm... Texas and the death penatly.
I hereby declare the formal initiation of The Campaign to Nuke Texas. Anyone with me? OK so don't really go out and build a nuke and blow up texas cuz I don't wanna get into any trouble, 'K?
...
Taking Tangee to the vet tomorrow, poor kitty isn't eating like she should again, and she's vomitting more lately. I tried to give her her medicine, but she won't take it. Grr... I hope the vets can offer advice on what to do, cuz I've no clue.
hmmm. not much else. ok.
bye
The four boys and a girl, 6 months to 7 years old, appeared to have been drowned in the bathtub, they said.
The woman, Andrea Yates, has taken medication for depression since the birth of her youngest boy two years ago, but John Cannon, a spokesman for the Houston Police Department, said the role her illness might have played in the crime would not be clear until she gave a formal statement.
A television report showed the longhaired, bespectacled Yates, her shirt torn in many places, being led away in handcuffs by police.
She was not charged for the crimes, but Cannon said, ``Rest assured, it is going to be carried as a capital murder case.'' In Texas, capital murder carries a maximum penalty of death by injection.
Yates was wet, breathing heavily and clearly disturbed when the first officer arrived on what he thought was a routine welfare check, Cannon said.
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This is the part that bothers me:
``Rest assured, it is going to be carried as a capital murder case.''
What the fuck? Rest Assured? Mmmm... Texas and the death penatly.
I hereby declare the formal initiation of The Campaign to Nuke Texas. Anyone with me? OK so don't really go out and build a nuke and blow up texas cuz I don't wanna get into any trouble, 'K?
...
Taking Tangee to the vet tomorrow, poor kitty isn't eating like she should again, and she's vomitting more lately. I tried to give her her medicine, but she won't take it. Grr... I hope the vets can offer advice on what to do, cuz I've no clue.
hmmm. not much else. ok.
bye
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Date: 2001-06-20 06:12 pm (UTC)ugh. and texas.
something like that happened here some months ago. a woman... a doctor actually, killed herself and her newborn.
what could incite a woman to kill her own children is something that i can never ever fathom.