A jury found Andrea Yates not guilty by reason of insanity for drowning her five children in June 2001. This was her second trial for the crime–the guilty verdict of the first was overturned because it was based on a false testimony.
Rusty Yates, father of the five children she killed, said that the jury came to the right decision.
“The jury looked past what happened and looked at why it happened,” Rusty Yates told reporters outside the courthouse. “Prosecutors had the truth of the first day and stopped there. Yes, she was psychotic. That’s the whole truth.”
Andrea Yates will be committed to a mental institution and will periodically appear before a judge to determine if she should be released.
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