5 The Story Of A Mentally Ill Mother Who Choked Her Child To Death

By Andrea Yates, whose psychology is evident in every way, and her mothers frightfully The depth of the story of their murdered children is truly chilling.

So how could a person come to this level of psychological disorder? Andrea and her children blood-chilling What are the terrifying details of his story?

First of all, let’s take a look at what “postpartum depression” means, one of Andrea’s diagnoses.

In the postpartum period transient and self-limiting mental status changes may occur in the mother. This may begin in the first week after birth and continue for up to 2 years.

Some of the symptoms of postpartum depression are:

• Anxiety and panic attacks
• Uncontrollable crying spells
• confusion of thoughts
• Forgetfulness
• emotional instability
• Anger
• Despair
• Thoughts of death and suicide
• Decreased decision-making ability
• Hostility
• Sorrow
• intense despair
• loss of control
• fear of going crazy
• Finding life meaningless
• Excessive disinterest or excessive interest in the baby
• Do not harm the baby

Andrea Yates’ past is already slowly starting to prepare her for this kind of event.

Andrea, who struggled with suicidal thoughts when she was only 17 years old, can be defined as making herself vomit after eating since her youth. eating disorder He had bulimia nervosa and depression.

Andrea and his wife had 5 children in a row in the early days of their marriage, with the idea that “we will have as many children as nature allows”. Andrea’s mental health From the birth of their 4th child It started to get worse and he tried to commit suicide again. After these attempts continued for a few more times, the woman was diagnosed with postpartum depression.

Andrea took a day off to see her children after a long hospital stay.

The mother, who struggled with schizophrenia and postpatum depression, was under the constant supervision of a doctor in the mental hospital. According to Andrea, who has symptoms of schizophrenia, teddy bears, ducks and marching soldiers He saw things like

On June 20, 2001, she wanted to see her children and unfortunately she had to go home. released. Everything was going to explode that day.

This is how the tragic event happened:

Andrea and his wife, Russell, who live in their suburban home in Texas, are with their family in the morning. after having breakfast NASA engineer Russell Johnson is on his way to his job at the Space Center.

Father, shortly after leaving the house, Andrea filling the tub with water He methodically strangled his 7, 5, 3, 2 year old children and 6 months old baby in turns. After the horrific atrocity, she first called the police and reported herself, then called her husband and told him to come home immediately.

“I thought about killing my children for 2 years.”

When the police officer who arrived at the house asked Andrea what had happened, “I killed my children.” got the answer and Andrea has been planning to do this for 2 years. Confessed.

Police found the body of the oldest child, 7 years old, floating in the bathtub. According to Andrea, she was the child who “had the least amount of trouble” at the time of the incident. The bodies of his other siblings are also in Andrea and Russell’s bed. wrapped in a blanket was lying.

“The devil was talking to us on TV as a cartoon character.”

a devout Christian Andrea Yates, who also said:

“My children was marked by the devil and the only way to save them was to kill them. So they could go to heaven and be with God. Thus, the devil would be destroyed. The devil often appeared to us as a cartoon character on TV and was talking to us.”

“I immersed Noah in the water until he stopped breathing. I don’t know how many minutes it took. Get out of the water for a while “Sorry.” He said something like, I don’t know exactly what he said…”

The arrested Andrea did not receive a prison sentence.

Against the defense team’s objections, Andrea committed all crimes. voluntarily admitted and begged for punishment. In 2002, the jury found Andrea sufficient to prosecute him and sentenced him to life in prison.

But later psychological disorder diagnoses He was found not guilty and admitted to a mental institution in Texas. Andrea Yates, now 58 years old, still lives in a mental institution.

Andrea Yates file in the world of science caused significant controversy. He even appeared in articles in many scientific journals.

Andrea Yates in popular culture:

Launched in 2004 Despite Housewives It is said that the screenwriter of the TV series started to write the series after this incident.

It was also released in 2010, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Dungeon Island It is thought that the movie was inspired by this event.