Judge Grants Bail, Sends Yates for Treatment
Andrea Yates, the woman awaiting retrial in the drowning of her five children, was granted $200,000 bail in Houston with the stipulation from Judge Belinda Hill that she be treated at a mental health facility.
“She is very mentally ill,” said her lawyer, George Parnham. “She will be treated as she needs to be treated [at a hospital]. She is on a very heavy dosage of anti-psychotic medicine.”
Yates, 41, is accused of drowning her children, who ranged in age from 6 months to 7 years old, in the family bathtub in 2001.
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