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ADVOCATES DISAGREE WITH VERDICT ; YATES SAID TO BE VICTIM OF COMMON BIASES
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Hartford Courant
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Hartford, Conn.
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[Andrea Yates] systematically drowned her five children -- ages 7 years to 6 months -- in the bathtub. The bruises on their bodies, where she held them down, showed how they struggled to live. Experts testified that Yates -- a devoutly religious woman who home-schooled her children -- had acted in a state of postpartum psychosis. She told police after the killings that she believed she was saving her children from Satan. [Walter Borden] diagnosed Dawn March, who was found not guilty by reason of insanity after drowning her 6-month-old daughter, Shawna, in the Housatonic River in New Milford in 1989. Borden testified on March's behalf that her mental illness stemmed in part from postpartum depression. Borden said mental retardation "is easier to understand, easier to categorize and is considered physical. It's not considered mental illness. What people ignore is the mentally retarded who have killed are also mentally ill. It's not their retardation that results in the killing. That gets lost." Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction or distribution is prohibited without permission.
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