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Andrea Blanco

Ex-husband of woman who drowned her five children says Lindsay Clancy deserves forgiveness

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The ex-husband of a woman who killed their children has expressed sympathy for Lindsay Clancy.

Russell “Rusty” Yates was at work when his then-wife Andrea Yates drowned their five children, all under the age of seven, in 2001. Yates, who was found not guilty of the murders by reason of insanity in a second trial in 2006, was suffering from severe postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis and schizophrenia at the time.

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