return to, you know, disassociate from materialism. return to the basics. so there s no question that she was stressed. andrea yates life had begun to unravel. she seemed perfectly fine up until after we had luke, which was our fourth. after her fourth child was born, she actually struggled with the thought of killing her child and she made a suicide attempt rather than risk harming her child. and there was one psychiatrist who saw her who told her and rusty don t have any more children. you need to stop. here we are on our way home. what does that say, boys? congratulations, rusty and andrea. it s boy. giving us a little welcome home. yeah. just a year later, the yates were expecting their fifth child. this magic moment it is the story of where every great idea begins. and of those who believed they had the power to do more.
the tv, from her religion was that she was a bad person. she was satan. once she became psychotic, it tied in with her religious beliefs at the time. at least some of those beliefs seemed to have been influenced by the writings of michael woroniecki, the preacher that andrea and rusty once followed. the one that stands out in my mind most is a pamphlet that showed a mother and her children and showed something like jezebels are going to throw their children in the river and destroy them. she believes that one son would become a serial killer, one son was going to become a mute homosexual prostitute, and she had these fantastic beliefs that each of her children was going to end up in some evil way and would literally go to hell. i didn t know that someone s beliefs, someone s thoughts, you know, that they become
you know, if i were to challenge him and say, well, this medicine worked for her in 99, why aren t we trying it now? i m confident this will work, you know, and kind of looking back to his, you know, diploma on the wall. rusty flew his mother out to houston to help andrea with the kids. what she saw frightened her. her mother-in-law, rusty s mother was in the house and said, andrea, why are you filling the bathtub at 4:00 in the afternoon? and andrea gave a vague answer, i might have use for it. that so concerned rusty s mother that they arranged for her to be hospitalized within 24 hours. when andrea was sent home from devereaux the second time, she was just as disoriented as before. rusty took her back to the outpatient facility. rusty said, i m very concerned about her. she s not responding to this anti-depressant medication. rusty reported that the doctor s
based on information we got from the doctor as we had successfully treated it in 1999. if it happened again, we knew how to treat it. we were thinking if it happens at all, it will be a relatively short spell and she will be down, at worst, for a while. for the yates, adding to their family outweighed the risks. to ensure a healthy pregnancy, andrea yates went off all her medication. if you re on medication and come on and off of it a lot, we think that it does something to your brain and then if you get sick, you often get sicker and then it becomes harder to treat the second, third, fourth time. following the first hospitalization, the yates had moved out of the bus and into a new house. in november 2000, they welcomed their fifth child and first girl, mary. this is our little girl that was born today. everything seemed fine.
michael woroniecki. baby number four arrives a few months later. i went on the bus. it was a bus. it was small. and there was a trap door that lifted up and you d look down in the luggage compartment and there s pallets on the floor where the children slept. mrs. yates was overwhelmed. she was had begun home schooling and she just couldn t handle it. you can imagine home schooling. a, b, d, e. she was changing diapers 24/7. washing diapers. not permitted to use pampers. had to use cloth diapers because they were more basic. they were the salt of the earth.