UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: In cause number 880205, the state of Texas versus Andrea Yates, we the jury, find the defendant, Andrea Pia Yates, not guilty by reason of insanity. First, before we get to George Parnham, who is one of the top attorneys in the United States, let`s listen to the sound of the Andrea Yates verdict. She was found not guilty by reason of insanity. I want to introduce somebody who represented a woman who`s going to go down in American history. It is the same risk that`s an investment tool that said John Gardner posed no risk. It is the same risk assessment tool that has said even today, John Garrido - Garrido, Phillip Garrido is a low to moderate risk. The other big significant is that, although she was mentally cleared here in California, the risk assessment used in California for violence is ridiculous. Nobody is looking at the pattern that caused the violence. By all accounts in the court documents, they`ve had divorce papers filed again. It was the stress of being - getting a divorce from the very man that she`s married to, who she`s back in an unstable relationship. She also stated when she committed the murders, not only was it the Prozac. Yes, she was committed to a mental facility, but upon release, she had to go back into the mental facility, because she became delusional again. NINA SALERNO ASHFORD, ATTORNEY: I think the judge`s decision is just as unconscionable as the acts of the murder. But for some lady out there in the public who didn`t have the power to say no to the courts, oh, it`s good enough for her.' What do you make of it, Nina? But that is an emotional reaction coming from a parent.' This court commissioner who said these kids have to go to this woman said - and I`ll give you the full-screen quote here - 'Would I ever want my children around her? I would say no. When you took a look at this case - and I have to read from the court order. I want to go out to Nina Salerno Ashford. The court, well, they think that there`s nothing to worry about.ДЄre you a parent? Do you think there`s something to worry about? Well, Trisha certainly doesn`t want her sons living with a woman who killed her own daughters. 1 has long been out of a California mental facility, and she turns around and remarries John Cushing, the father of her dead children. Meantime, ex-husband John Cushing marries Trisha Conlon. She pleads insanity, is committed to a mental facility for just four years.

Kristine Cushing kills her two daughters, claiming she was depressed and had a bad reaction to Prozac. Twenty years ago, Kristine shot and killed her 4- and 8-year-old daughters. VELEZ-MITCHELL: Trisha is worried about this woman, Kristine Cushing. When a person is capable, they`re capable. TRISHA CONLON, CONTESTING CUSTODY OF TEENAGE SONS: I`m not willing to risk my kids` lives on speculation. Here`s Trisha, the worried mom, on 'The Today Show.' The court says, 'Oh, there`s nothing to worry about.' The nervous mom has to let her boys stay with the killer of these children. The step-mom actually executed her own two young daughters. Trisha Conlon says that she is terrified for her two sons because their step-mom is a known killer. I`ve got to tell you, this story is an outrage. I`m Jane Velez-Mitchell, coming to you live from New York City. VELEZ-MITCHELL: A woman loses her custody battle to a killer. RUSSELL YATES, EX-HUSBAND OF ANDREA: Andrea took the lives of our children. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It`s just sad that his mom did this to him. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You`ll be held without bond. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Just the unthinkability that somebody could do this to their own children. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Tampa police say their own mother, 50-year-old Julie Schenecker, shot and killed them. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We, the jury, find the defendant, Andrea Pia Yates, not guilty. Then new evidence of six degrees of separation for troubled celebrities, as Lindsay Lohan`s ex, Samantha Ronson, gets busted for DUI days after her brother comes back from singer Amy Winehouse`s funeral. We`re taking you inside the courtroom for the very latest on this very disturbing case. One tape allegedly captured Jeffs having sex with a 12-year-old girl while a group of men watch.

Plus, chilling recordings of the polygamist leader Warren Jeffs with two of his alleged child rape victims. What`s wrong with our criminal justice system? Tonight, outrage that this admitted child killer is allowed to live with another woman`s kids. Only problem: his current wife shot her two little girls to death two decades ago. An Oregon mom is ordered to share custody of her two young sons with her ex-husband. JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL, HOST (voice-over): Tonight, a killer custody battle. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

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