27 Quotes by Andrea Yates

I was listening to the radio and they were playing some music in my cell. I heard a voice through the music.

I think everyone would lose again if they brought her back to trial, ... Although, if she does go back to trial she could be found not guilty by reason of insanity. To me, any way I look at it, it's good for her.

I said, 'Is anyone hurt?' She said, 'Yes.' I said, 'Who?' She said, 'The children. All of them,' ... My heart just sank.

My wife, she's really suffering, and I just ask that you say a prayer for her because she needs it. She's suffering right now,

methodically drowned her five children one by one in a bathtub.

We didn't see her as a danger, ... The real question to me is: How could she have been so ill and the medical community not diagnose her, not treat her, and obviously not protect our family from her?

It was the seventh deadly sin. My children weren't righteous. They stumbled because I was evil. The way I was raising them they could never be saved. They were doomed to perish in the fires of hell.

Severe mental illness like psychosis can lead to a tragedy like this - that people can see things that aren't real and hear things that aren't real and believe things that aren't real, and act in that distorted reality.

Every step of the way, they've treated her like a serial killer for no reason -- a hardened serial killer. And she's not. She's a loving mother who became desperately ill and really did the unthinkable,