Another Murderer Found Innocent:

Fox News just announced that Andrea Yates, the Houston area Suburbanite, was found “not guilty by reason of insanity” for systematically drowning her five children. Not only am I disgusted; I just don’t understand. There’s no doubt that Yates was mentally ill, but is this an adequate “excuse” for committing such heinous acts? For rejecting God as a society, must we now reject the possibility of evil? Wouldn’t someone who was evil appear insane to those who aren’t?

No doubt many will think me callous for not having compassion for Ms. Yates. My very humble reply to that is, “Who the Hell cares what you think?” I’m afraid my compassion in this instance is all for the children. I can’t even muster any compassion for the father of these poor victims, after reading his remarks, as reported here :

“Rusty Yates said he and his ex-wife are "good friends" and that he likely will visit her in prison later Wednesday. He said she was "very nervous" leading up to the verdict, and that she expected to be found guilty again. He thanked the jury for "rising above superficial facts" and said that in a mental institution, she can have a "better quality of life for herself."

That’s nice. He and the woman who “… filled the tub with water and beginning with Paul, she systematically drowned the three youngest boys, then placed them on her bed and covered them. Mary was left floating in the tub. The last child alive was the first born, seven-year-old Noah. He asked his mother what was wrong with Mary, then turned and ran away. Andrea caught up with him and as he screamed, she dragged him and forced him into the tub next to Mary's floating body. He fought desperately, coming up for air twice, but Andrea held him down until he was dead. Leaving Noah in the tub, she brought Mary to the bed and laid her in the arms of her brothers.”are “good friends;” and he’s glad she’ll have a “better quality of life for herself.” Apparently Yates’ “insanity” didn’t prevent her from assisting in her own defense; or from rejecting a plea deal that would have netted her only 35 years in prison, as opposed to 77.

I guess what really convinces me that Yates is responsible for the death of her children is that millions of women every year make an appointment to have their children killed, and men like Peter Singer (the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and laureate professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne) advocate the killing of children up to several days after birth; as well as performing “experiments” on infants of “diminished capacity.”

Andrea Yates and Peter Singer, Dr. Mengele would be proud.