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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one is sympathetic to either of them. Maybe they are paying lip service to sound enlightening, but only a monster can murder their own child. [/quote]

I have no idea who this Clancy person is, but Andrea Yates gets [i]a lot[/i] of sympathy. Tons.

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Really? I don't remember that being the case. I remember hearing that she was told not to not have more kids due to previous post partum depression. yet she still chose to have another child and it out her over the edge. I think she was judge pretty harshly for this.
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+1. She was harshly judged. It wasn't until later when a lot of the completely wackadoo details came out that there was some sympathy for her. Her first attorney was a family friend. The DA sought the death penalty, She plead not guilty by reason of insanity but was convicted. She was sentenced to the max in TX (at the time) - 40 years with possibility of parole. The verdict was overturned because the prosecution's expert witness literally made up an episode of Law and Order, based on the facts of Yates' case, and told the jury he thought Yates might have been influenced by the non-existent episode (this is true, believe it or not). She was retried and found not guilty by reason of insanity. I don't have an exact timeline on when some of the details about her repulsive husband came out, but yes, she was told not to have more kids by a psychiatrist. And her husband was advised by the psychiatrist treating her at the time of the murders to never leave her alone with the children. Yet he did.

Other than the passage of time and more understanding about these cases, it appears that Clancy was known and had friends in the community. That was not really the case with Yates, IIRC. There weren't a lot of people coming out as her friends and saying they couldn't believe this happened because those people didn't exist for her.[/quote]

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