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Mother Who Killed Her
Five Children Was On
Anti-Depressant HALDOL
By Jeff Franks
6-21-1
"Doctors used a cocktail of drugs to help Yates during
both bouts of depression. She was currently taking
medication that included Haldol, Yates said."
HOUSTON (Reuters) - The husband of a woman who
confessed to drowning their five children said on
Thursday he still loved her and blamed the tragedy on her
severe case of postpartum depression.
Russell Yates, at times fighting back tears but for the
most
part remarkably composed, told reporters that what wife
Andrea Yates did was ``incomprehensible'' because she
was a ``kind and gentle person'' who loved their kids.
``I'm supportive of her because on the one hand I know
she killed our children...but on the other I know that the
woman here is not the woman who killed my children,'' he
said, pointing to a photograph of the family taken a few
months ago.
``She had her psychotic side effects with her depression
that led her to do this. She loved our kids and anybody
that knew her knew that.''
``Andrea, if you see this, I love you,'' said Yates, who
spoke to reporters in the front yard of the one-story
suburban home where the children were killed on
Wednesday.
Andrea Yates, 36, was jailed without bond on a charge of
capital murder, which under Texas law could bring her the
death penalty. She was due to be arraigned on the
charges on Friday.
She called police to their home near NASA's Johnson
Space Center on Wednesday morning and told them she
killed the children -- four boys and a girl who ranged in
age from 6 months to 7 years.
The four youngest -- Luke, 2, Paul, 3, and John, 5, and
6-month-old daughter, Mary -- were found in a bed, their
still-wet bodies covered with a sheet. Seven-year-old
Noah was in the bath tub where police believe Yates
drowned the children.
Russell Yates, a 36-year-old NASA computer engineer,
said his wife called him at work and told him he needed to
come home.
``I said 'is anyone hurt' and she said 'yes.' I said
'who' and
she said 'the children...all of them.' My heart just
sank,'' he
said. Yates raced home to find the police already there.
He said his wife of eight years suffered separate episodes
of severe postpartum depression after having their fourth
and fifth kids and had tried to commit suicide two years
ago. The depression caused her to become so withdrawn
and incapacitated that his mother, Dora Yates, would
come over to help care for the children.
Doctors used a cocktail of drugs to help Yates during both
bouts of depression. She was currently taking medication
that included Haldol, Yates said.
According to Baylor College of Medicine psychiatry
professor Lauren Marangell, Haldol is usually prescribed
for psychosis, a more severe illness than garden variety
postpartum depression and one more likely to lead to
violence.
When she was well, Andrea Yates homeschooled the
children and lavished attention on them, Yates said.
For Valentine's Day, she made them heart-shaped
booklets with coupons that were good for a hug or a
game, he said.
The kids, he said, were normal, happy and healthy. They
loved games and sports, particularly T-ball and
basketball, which they played on a hoop in the driveway.
He said he would not support the death penalty for his
wife because ``she obviously wasn't herself'' when she
killed the children.
``She was a kind and gentle person,'' he said.
``I'm primarily concerned right now with just tending to
my
kids, making sure they get a good burial and are treated
good,'' Yates said.
He said he wanted everyone to know that his family had
been a strong one that was ripped apart only by a sinister
illness that, in the end, knew no bounds.
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choking
back tears.
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