Mother who drowned her children was ‘marked by Satan’

The trial of a woman accused of drowning her five children in a bath will hinge on testimony from doctors who talked to her before and after the deaths.

The trial of a woman accused of drowning her five children in a bath will hinge on testimony from doctors who talked to her before and after the deaths.

A psychiatrist told jurors that Andrea Yates thought she had been marked by Satan and left with only one way to save her children from the fires and torment of hell: to kill them.

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