Well, well, well, Andrea Yeats' conviction was overturned on appeal. What is this going to do to Rusty's plan to divorce her and breed up a replacement bunch of kids on another woman he'd grind down?
1) They were both warned by doctors that her pospartum depression would deepen with each child and to stop having children. He talked her into getting pregnant again.
2) Once he got her pregnant all those times, he fostered a belief in her that women didn't deserve medication for the pain of birth and were solely responsible for the care of all those children. I have yet to see a newspaper article suggesting that he allowed her to get help, to have aid, or do to anything except make herself a slave to feeding/clothing/teaching the children without break.
3) He raised the tension on her by making her move out of her house and care for the entire brood in a broken-down school bus, adding crowding (which in itself results in psychological breakdowns) to the rest of her problems. This was, eventually, fixed and the family was allowed to move back into their own home.
4) He was aware that she had mental problems; one of his "defenses" at the trial was that if the doctors had given her the proper drugs, she would have been too passive to harm the children. Yet despite knowing that she was doped to the gills, despite being aware enough that she needed help that he had his mother coming over every day to deal with the children, he also made sure that she was left alone with the children for a period of time every day. I think it was to "bond." It was during this unsupervised time that she snapped and killed them.
So - he continues the behavoir that deranges her, medicates her to the eyeballs, and leaves several small children in her care. That is both criminal abuse of Andrea and criminal neglect of the children. Quite bluntly, those children would not have died if he hadn't pushed their mother into pospartum psychois and then left them alone with her.
And just to ice the cake, in one of the news articles about the appeal today, he justifies his divorce because "She hurt me too much." Not "I can't deal with her pain," not "I can't get over what she did to those children," no, "She hurt *me* too much." That man thinks the sun shines out his ass - and wants us all to be solar worshippers.
I didn't know any of those specifics. That's just awful :( It's too bad she didn't have the will to realize that he was a horrible influence on her life, and it's so sad for his children. When I had read he was getting divorced it had seemed reasonable. It still is because maybe without him her life can take on some new meaning.
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Re: I don't get it.
1) They were both warned by doctors that her pospartum depression would deepen with each child and to stop having children. He talked her into getting pregnant again.
2) Once he got her pregnant all those times, he fostered a belief in her that women didn't deserve medication for the pain of birth and were solely responsible for the care of all those children. I have yet to see a newspaper article suggesting that he allowed her to get help, to have aid, or do to anything except make herself a slave to feeding/clothing/teaching the children without break.
3) He raised the tension on her by making her move out of her house and care for the entire brood in a broken-down school bus, adding crowding (which in itself results in psychological breakdowns) to the rest of her problems. This was, eventually, fixed and the family was allowed to move back into their own home.
4) He was aware that she had mental problems; one of his "defenses" at the trial was that if the doctors had given her the proper drugs, she would have been too passive to harm the children. Yet despite knowing that she was doped to the gills, despite being aware enough that she needed help that he had his mother coming over every day to deal with the children, he also made sure that she was left alone with the children for a period of time every day. I think it was to "bond." It was during this unsupervised time that she snapped and killed them.
So - he continues the behavoir that deranges her, medicates her to the eyeballs, and leaves several small children in her care. That is both criminal abuse of Andrea and criminal neglect of the children. Quite bluntly, those children would not have died if he hadn't pushed their mother into pospartum psychois and then left them alone with her.
Re: I don't get it.
Re: I don't get it.