After the birth of her fifth child and the death of her father, she went into a severe depression and was forcefully admitted to Devereux-Texas Treatment Network. There, Dr. Mohammed Saeed prescribed a series of psychotropic drug treatments. He also abruptly tapered off the antipsychotic Haldol, a medication that helped Andrea recover in 1999. On June 20, 2001, during the hour between her husband leaving for work and her mother-in-law arriving, Andrea Yates drowned all five of her children in the bathtub. Debra M. Osterman, a psychiatrist with the Mental Health and Mental Retardation Authority of Harris County, Tex., said
The Crime of Andrea Yates. The crime of Andrea Yates in which she drowned all 5 of her children one by one is a very difficult crime to understand. There are many elements that come into consideration when looking at this case. The two elements that this research will be focusing on are the Psychological and Sociological factors. Andrea Yates was a middle aged woman when she gave birth to her first child Noah.
Terri was found in full cardiac arrest and taken to Humana Northside Hospital. Unfortunately, the then twenty-six year old Terri had suffered irreversible damage due to prolonged lack of oxygen to the brain. Terri is left in a persistent vegetative state and has a feeding tube and requires total care (Schindler v Schiavo, 2005). The next three years consist of her husband, Michael, and her parents Robert and Mary Schindler working together to take care of Terri. During this time Michael was appointed as Terri’s legal guardian without objection from her parents.
Then on February 25, 1990 she collapsed and went into full cardiac arrest. She suffered brain damage due to lack of oxygen. A couple of months later after being in a coma the doctors treating her diagnosed her with a vegetative state. One year after the cardiac arrest a board-certified neurologist and an internist and personal family physician to the Schiavo family independently made the diagnosis of PVS (persistent vegetative state). Her husband Michael Schiavo in 1998 petitioned the court to have the feeding tube removed in regards to a state statute.
Andrea Yates, the Houston mom who in 2001 drowned her five young children one-by-one in the bathtub (Moisse, 2013). Andrea Yates was a mother of Mary, 6 months, Luke, 2, Paul, 3, John, 5, and Noah, 7. Andrea Yates defense claim had been that God told her to drown all her children. During her first trial she was found guilty on 3 counts of murder however, it was overturned due to erroneous testimony during an appeal. Following that Andrea Yates submitted a plea of guilty for reason of insanity.
Marian was 11 years old and her parents forced her to marry a blind, 41 years old. Her price was $1,200. When she was living with her husband and his mother, they began to beat her when she failed to conceived a child. After 2 years of abuse, she sought help at police station in Kabul after the police delivered her to a residential neighborhood " Women's shelters", something that was unknown in Afghanistan before 2003. Marian said she felt fortunate to have found refuge.
My grandmother is a breast cancer survivor, but in 2000 her cancer returned in her left breast so she was very ill , and working to raise a newborn baby so throughout my childhood she was always in and out of the hospital . Throughout my kinder through 3rd grade education every summer , or vacation i would have i would travel to Sinaloa Mexico with my grandmother on a travel bus , it would take us 24 hours sometimes even more . It was always a scary car ride because we never knew if we would make it to our destination traveling to Sinaloa back then was a very dangerous trip everyone was always paranoid that our bus would get hijacked by a cartel because they new that there was people traveling from the United States and they always assumed that we were rich . My grandma would take me with her because she wanted me to value what i had. I was a spoiled brat my dad , my grandma , and my godmother would always try to buy me what i wanted when they could afford it.
Laura’s room at the Martinique is almost unlivable. There is sewage on the floor due to the bathroom plumbing overflowing. A radiator valve is broken, and as Kozol states, “every now and then releases a spray of scalding steam at the eye level of a child.” (p. 252) The crib, which the hotel provides, is unsafe for her infant daughter. The paint on the walls is chipping leaving lead based chips on the ground for the children to eat. This is where her eldest son contracted lead poisoning.
“Society Makes Us Human” Lindsey Brown SOC 210 March 23, 2013 Case #1: The “Genie” Case The Situation In November of 1970, a young thirteen year old girl was discovered by a social worker in Los Angeles, California after her mother actually called and requested services. After some investigation it was uncovered that her parents and her brother had ignored the young girl (dubbed “Genie” to protect her identity) for most her life. Her father beat her when she made a noise, and only acknowledged her to bark or growl at her. “Genie” spent most of her life strapped to a potty-chair, barely able to move her feet and hands. Length of Confinement “Genie” spent all thirteen years of her life being physically, verbally, and mentally abused.
She has her GED and lives with her two children and boyfriend. She was referred to the outpatient clinic by her in-patient psychiatrist for continued psychiatric evaluation and treatment. K states that: “ no matter what medications they put me on I end up in the hospital twice a year. My highs are my lows. I fly so fast that I end up paranoid and out of it.” As per K; she was sexually abused by an uncle at age 15.