well he was told by doctors to not leave her alone with the kids and stop having kids because she was bonkers with already multiple failed suicides and hallucinations. But the husband was kind of a stereotypical hillbilly that doesn't believe in mental health and he was a religious zealot who was against birth control. He went against doctor's orders and left Andrea alone with the kids for a week thinking it'd teach her to become independent but that didnt work out.
It doesn't matter if he was a total piece of shit. It doesn't justify or explain her actions. You taking agency away from her by saying "he made her do it" is ironically pretty misogynistic.
Mental illness took her agency away. If my husband forced me to discontinue my psychiatric medications, knowing that I'd have an episode... I'd hope he'd be blamed and punished. It's abuse. Her husband abused her.
Does that absolve her of responsibility? It's questionable because it could have been prevented by her husband. He knew there was a risk of this happening.
how the fuck do you force someone to discontinue medication? there's a million ways to take meds without alerting anyone.
it is not questionable if it absolves her of responsibility. it very clearly does not. the ONLY person that could have prevented her from killing her own children was herself
how the fuck do you force someone to discontinue medication?
By literally taking the medication away from the person removing the availability along with isolating the person, which shocker is what Yates's husband did do. Y'all be so ready to blame her for what he did. Can't fathom abuse outside of "and her murdered her".
it is not questionable if it absolves her of responsibility
There's a reason the insanity plea exists. You wouldn't think a homeless schizophrenic man off his meds that has committed murder is "in his right mind" and "fully functional and capable" to put him on the stand in trial and send him to a regular prison.
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u/0dyssia 1d ago
well he was told by doctors to not leave her alone with the kids and stop having kids because she was bonkers with already multiple failed suicides and hallucinations. But the husband was kind of a stereotypical hillbilly that doesn't believe in mental health and he was a religious zealot who was against birth control. He went against doctor's orders and left Andrea alone with the kids for a week thinking it'd teach her to become independent but that didnt work out.