Defense opens case for Texas mother accused of drownings

Saturday, February 23, 2002

HOUSTON -- Andrea Yates moaned, cried and pulled at her hair the morning after she was arrested for drowning her five children, a jail psychiatrist testified Friday in defense of the Houston woman.

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