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To: Rambi who wrote (8741)	4/13/2002 12:59:05 PM
From: Poet	Respond to of 21057

My goodness, look at this story. Spookily close to the Andrea Yates drownings: April 13, 2002 Soldier Gets Life Sentence for Drowning Her 2 Children By DESMOND BUTLER MANNHEIM, Germany, April 12 ? A United States Army finance clerk who drowned her small children last September in what she said was an attempt to avenge her husband's suspected unfaithfulness was sentenced today by a military court to life in prison. Specialist Lillie Morgan, 22, dressed in a pressed green uniform with medals for achievement and good conduct, had earlier confessed to drowning Joshua, 3, and Jazmin, 2 months, in the bathtub of her military housing apartment in Hanau, near Frankfurt, on Sept. 18. After acknowledging her guilt, Specialist Morgan thanked the judge, Lt. Col. Stephen Henley, for his fairness, thanked her military defense counsel and the prosecutors who she said defended her children. "They are gone. I am responsible. I love you, Joshua. I love you, Jazmin. I know I will see you in heaven." A psychiatrist who testified for the defense, Dr. Catherine Lewis, today compared the case to that of Andrea Yates, who was also recently convicted of drowning her children. Both Mrs. Yates and Specialist Morgan, she said, were intelligent and candid, but psychotic. They also had both tried suicide previously. Dr. Lewis described as "cultlike" the Pentecostal-like traditions in which Specialist Morgan was raised. The defendant testified that she killed her children in the hope that as innocents they would go to heaven and avoid her own painful experience. Colonel Henley's sentence means that Specialist Morgan will be eligible for parole after 20 years in jail. The prosecutors had pushed for life without parole. Dr. Lewis diagnosed Specialist Morgan as schizophrenic and suffering from chronic post traumatic stress disorder. Specialist Morgan had been in and out of foster homes, Dr. Lewis said, and told the psychiatrist that her stepfather raped her, then blamed his action on a satanic presence in the house. Specialist Morgan ran away from home at age 16, Dr. Lewis said, because she was responsible for cleaning the house in Marksville, La., and her mother began keeping a pig in it. The psychiatrist said that Specialist Morgan had been under extreme stress at the time of her crime, possibly caused by sleep deprivation, postpartum depression, the immediate impact of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States and a "highly vitriolic, intense, self-damaging relationship" with her husband, Spencer Morgan. Mr. Morgan had been discharged from the Army before the crime and did not attend the trial.