Andrea Yates released from jail

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Some cases just hit you at the right time. I was a brand new mom when Andrea Yates drowned her kids, and it was/is unfathomable to me.

I can't believe someone messed up her trial! I can't believe she's being released from jail. But at least she's going to a mental health facility.

Andrea Yates released from jail
Mom accused of drowning kids to await retrial in mental hospital

Thursday, February 2, 2006; Posted: 3:51 p.m. EST (20:51 GMT)

Andrea Yates, with attorney George Parnham, left jail Thursday for a state mental hospital.
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Manage Alerts | What Is This? HOUSTON, Texas (AP) -- Andrea Yates left jail early Thursday for a state mental hospital where she will await her second capital murder trial for the drowning deaths of her young children.

Yates' attorney posted her $200,000 bond, releasing her from incarceration for the first time since the five children were drowned in the family bathtub in June 2001.

State District Judge Belinda Hill set the bond Wednesday.

Yates, 41, didn't speak as she left the jail. She carried a brown paper sack and wore jeans and a blue-and-white striped shirt as she entered a car with her attorney and a private investigator for the drive to the mental hospital. (Watch Yates walk out with her brown bag -- 1:59)

Her attorney, George Parnham, said he would answer questions after returning Yates to East Texas, where she previously spent more than three years at a prison psychiatric unit.

The judge said she couldn't order Yates to commit herself to the Rusk State Hospital, but said she set the bond based on Yates remaining there until her March 20 trial. Once the trial begins, Yates will return to the Harris County Jail. The trial is expected to last four to six weeks.

Yates faces capital murder charges for drowning three of the children and has pleaded innocent by reason of insanity.

A jury rejected her original insanity defense in 2002 and sentenced her to life in prison for the drowning of 7-year-old Noah, 5-year-old John and 6-month-old Mary. Prosecutors presented evidence about the drownings of Paul, 3, and Luke, 2, but Yates was not charged in their deaths.

An appeals court last year overturned the convictions based on testimony by the state's expert witness about a nonexistent episode on television's "Law & Order" series. The expert, Park Dietz, said a show about a woman with postpartum depression who drowned her children had aired shortly before the Yates children were drowned.