HOUSTON (Reuters) - A despondent Andrea Yates is receiving treatment in a Texas hospital for depression so severe she has refused to eat since around the anniversary last month of the day she drowned her five children, her lawyer said on Wednesday.
Yates, 40, has lost more than 20 pounds (9 kg) in recent weeks and was "incoherent" when moved on Monday from her psychiatric prison to a hospital in Galveston, attorney George Parnham said in an interview.
"I can just imagine the depth of despair she's in, the depth of hurt and desperation over the deaths of her children," he said.
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