Mother accused of child-killing weeps

Andrea Yates sobbed during her murder trial yesterday as prosecutors showed the jury in Houston, Texas, a picture of four of her drowned children on a bed and a video-tape of her fifth child floating face down in a bathtub.

The bodies were found at the family’s Houston home on June 20 after Yates called police to say she had killed her children. The oldest child was seven; the youngest, Mary, was six months old.