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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On the verge of having the criminal charges dropped. I know some of you are convinced malingering is not a thing but I predict she'll make a "sudden" recovery in a year or two and be released.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/11/23/hoggle-trial-competency-hearing/[/quote]

There is no statute of limitations on murder, and the charges that may be dropped soon can be reinstated the instant after she makes a sudden recovery to competency. There is no chance she gets off scott free to live a fully functioning life.

I’m a former prosecutor with extensive experience working with top mental health experts on competency issues in criminal cases. From what I learned on the  job and in several hundred hours of specialized CLE trainings on mental health, I have no doubt this woman is seriously mentally ill. The greatest fault lies with her family who did not appreciate the seriousness of her illness and allowed her to be alone with those kids. But I can find compassion in my heart for them because they are lay people and on top of that they loved their kid and didn’t believe her capable of murder - what parent would readily assume this? Even in very sick schizophrenics violent homicidal behavior is very rare. Most lay people do not appreciate how a person can be floridly psychotic while appearing normal on the surface. Back in my days as a public defender I put myself in a very dangerous position with a schizophrenic client which I didn’t even at the time realize was a risk - I later learned he spoke at length in an arrest over something minor about his delusions about our relationship. It was chilling to realize what he was thinking about me while seeming quite normal on the surface in our interactions.

This is a sad case. I can totally believe that the mother is locking away her children someplace in her mind where it doesn’t touch the horror she inflicted on them. She might well choose to stay there with them forever.

Psychiatric professionals have long since deemed Andrea Yates improved enough to warrant release, but she’s chosen to stay in a Texas psych hospital instead. She cannot face living in the world carrying the burden of what her illness drove her to do. Surely by now we can all feel sympathy for Andrea Yates? She was failed by medical professionals and her husband most of all, who knew she was psychotic from PPD and kept getting her pregnant anyway.

Why did this woman have so many children with such serious mental illness? You would think her family would have encouraged otherwise.[/quote]

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