She told the officer that she was a bad mother and expected to be punished. This crime will unravel the reasons why a loving mother, of five, had drowned all of her children, tangled in issues of depression, religious fanaticism, and psychosis. Why would any mother murder all of her children? When Andrea was brought in for questioning she was asked “who killed your children” and she said “I killed them”. Then she was asked “why did you kill your children” and she replied “because I am a bad mother”.
Anna found that he had been cheating on her with a close friend. She took the break up very bad. Anna tried to commit suicide by taking pills and cutting her wrist. Just now she claims to hearing voices inside her head, telling her to hurt others. One thing she hears the voice telling her to do is to kill her sister Mary.
Speak, written by Laurie Halse Anderson, is about a depressed victim of rape, who emotionally drowns in her first year of high school. As the victim, Melinda, withdraws from words, she creates of habit of badly chewing on her lips to the point where a student wonders if “she’s got a disease or something.” (pg. 45)Melinda’s lip-biting is symbolic of how much she wants to consume herself and be non-existent. Her lips are a manifestation of the overwhelming anxiety she feels. While Melinda takes her anxiety out on her lips, her art is symbolic of how she feels about herself after Andy Evans raped her.
some of the major incidents that I’ll include consist of the depression I suffered from due to isolation, and the terrible and intense arguments I had with my mother. In the end I will talk about how I have been trying to do random acts of kindness for my mother to make up for everything I made us both go through. (Score for Question 3: ___ of 20 points) Fill in sensory details about what happened. You do not need to fill in all five senses if they are not relevant to your topic, but be sure to fill in sight and sound. Answer: I felt very lonely and had low self esteem, I felt like a horrible person whether or not I wanted to admit it to myself.
4) I believe the behavior of this mother was the cognitive theory, because she was struggling with depression at the time. She wasn’t in her right state of mind she went through with killing her kids. 5) I think the neurotransmitters that played a role in Andrea Yates killing her kids was that of serotonin and nor epinephrine. Since she was suffering from postpartum depression as well as schizophrenia and bipolar with the combaniation of those really affected
The first death that really rattles Montag is when the firemen are getting ready to burn a house down, and the woman that lived there started herself and her books on fire. When he got home from that, he found out that Clarisse had died. His wife, Mildred, has an addiction to pills that will most likely eventually kill her too. Teen murdered
Andrea also was hospitalized for trying to kill herself with a knife in July of 1999, then in the spring of 2001 she was admitted twice to a treatment center for mental illness. But then in June 4, 2001 Andrea’s psychiatrist discontinues her medications, and on June 20, 2001 Andrea drowns her five children. On July 31, 2001 a Houston grand jury indicted Andrea Yates for capital murder in the cases of Noah, John and Mary. Since she had killed someone that was under the age of six years old and kill more than one person she was eligible for the death penalty. Andrea Yates attorneys filed for an insanity defense.
His father died when he was about 5 years old and his mother could not take care of him so she sent him and his siblings to an orphanage. The orphanage was a place of brutality where he was exposed to regular beatings and sadistic acts of brutality. As a form of punishment, his teacher would make the children strip down in front of the classroom where they would endure a beating. This is an act that would normally have a negative effect on a child, but Albert seemed to have enjoyed it. He began to get sexual pleasure from it and would get erections every time he was whipped.
Biological Criminal Behavior Frederick Gammage, Kenda Julius, Kimberly Lowery, Dawn Nicewander CJA/314 July 14, 2014 Jacqueline Waltman Biological Criminal Behavior Heinous crimes such as murder take society by surprise, but none more so than when a mother murders her child or children. Emotional instability is the culprit that extends into psychopathic behavior. Andrea Yates is one of the individuals that fit this category. She drowned her five children in the bathtub, starting with the three youngest boys, then her youngest child, a daughter. She left her daughter floating in the bathtub while she chased down her eldest son then drowned him with his sister still in the tub.
These can be very scary and make you feel like you are re-living the assault. Trauma is a major part for the victim. Some don’t go to the police out of fear or shame. Rape has psychological effect toward the victim. They have to talk about it otherwise this is a wound that festers and it will lead to depression.