Andrea Yates Quotes

"If they drop charges against her, then she'd go to a mental hospital and then the doctors would decide when she's well enough to go home, ... They've treated her like a serial killer, and my feeling all along has been it's a waste of the taxpayers' money to prosecute her."

"We didn't see her as a danger."

"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?"

"Apparently, patient and husband plan to have as many babies as nature will allow. This will surely guarantee psychotic depression."

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

"the primary emphasis is on care and not security."