On June 20th, 2001, Andrea Yates, a 36-year-old mother of five, drowned all five of her children one at a time in the bathroom tub. She then calmly called 911 and then her husband telling him "It's time. I finally did it." When she was interviewed by police later that day she told them that the reason she had killed her children was because she had done a bad job as a mother and wanted to punish herself.
Andrea had a history of metal illness and was treated for postpartum depression and psychosis after her fourth and fifth children. She had attempted to kill herself two years earlier and was taking two
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