A tragedy she will have with her for as long she lives.
I have always thought of myself as marginally sane - I guess I shouldn't qualify sane. You are or you aren't, so I'm not sure where that leaves me, but in the years when I had five small children running around, I was probably pretty close to the edge. Mine all survived, but if I had been home-schooling all of them, no time away from them, and if I hadn't had other mothers with children like mine, it would have been tough.
I would never want to judge Andrea Yates and I wouldn't have wanted to serve on a jury attempting to make decisions about her.
From the time I first heard about this, I have felt so sorry for her and her children and her husband.
I do think that in most cases a person confined to a mental institution after having been found not guilty by reason of insanity can later be released from that institution if found to be sane.
MJ