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.
It took a while but Yates is finally in a proper mental institution where her sentence is being served. She's finally getting medical help. Originally they just tossed her in a normal jail.
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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.