Woman who killed her five children ‘despondent’

A DESPONDENT Andrea Yates is receiving treatment in a Texas hospital for depression so severe that she has refused to eat any food since around the anniversary last month of the day on which she drowned her five children, her lawyer said.

Yates, 40, has lost more than 20 pounds in recent weeks and was said to be “incoherent” when she was moved on Monday from her psychiatric prison to a hospital in Galveston, in Texas, her attorney George Parnham said in an interview.

“I can just imagine the depth of despair she’s in, the depth of hurt and desperation over the deaths of her children,” Mr Parnham said.