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Andrea Yates (born Andrea Pia Kennedy; July 2 1964) is a former Houston Texas resident who confessed to drowning her five children in their bathtub on June 20 2001. She had been suffering for some time with very severe postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis. Yates was represented by Houston criminal defense attorney George Parnham. The then-Harris County Texas District Attorney asked for the death penalty in Yates’ 2002 trial.