Andrea Yates
Published on Nov 19, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
HISTORY
- Suffered from severe postpartum depression
- She was in a Low security mental hospital
- Worked as a registered nurse
- Rusty found her eating her fingers in 1999
- Attempted suicide by overdosing on pills 1999
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- Yates became so incapacitated, required immediate hospitalization
- Diagnosed with postpartum psychosis after trying to commit suicide in July 99'
- Read the bible feverishly
- Stopped feeding her youngest child, Mary
- Yates became so incapacitated, required immediate hospitalization
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COURT CASE
- Texas jury found her not guilty for the reason of insanity(2006)
- Witness Dr. Park Dietz admitted to giving false testimony at trial
- No direct verdict
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