Report: Ex-husband of killer mom Andrea Yates discusses murdered children with her on a regular basis

Andrea Yates, the notorious killer mom who drowned her five children in 2001, has been forgiven by her ex-husband Rusty Yates, who reportedly speaks with her on a monthly basis.

The New York Post reported that Yates, 59, frequently communicates with Kerrville State Hospital in Texas, a facility for criminals who are unable to stand trial or have been found "not guilty by reason of insanity," to speak with his 60-year-old ex-wife, who was deemed mentally incompetent to stand trial.

The newspaper reports that the former couple discusses their deceased children, including Noah, John, Paul, Luke, and Mary, who would have been adults if it were not for their mother's actions.

Rusty Yates could not be reached for comment.

In March 2005, Rusty Yates divorced Andrea Yates, who was already serving a life sentence in prison for drowning her children in a bathtub.

The appeals court reversed the convictions in question due to incorrect testimony from a psychiatrist, resulting in her acquittal on the grounds of insanity during her 2006 retrial.

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Rusty Yates had another child, but that marriage also ended in divorce. Despite the tragic events that occurred during his tenure as a NASA engineer, he remains employed in the same position.

"In an interview with NewsNation last year, he stated that Andrea was a wonderful mother. He added that when someone behaves out of character, it could indicate that something else is happening. Regarding forgiveness, he said it was a starting point."

"Would they prosecute me for capital murder and show me crime scene photos of my children if I had a heart attack while driving our Suburban and swerved into oncoming traffic, killing everyone in the car except me? He rhetorically asked in the interview. In my opinion, it's 100% the same."

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In June 1999, after giving birth to her fourth child, Andrea Yates made four suicide attempts, including overdosing on pills and holding a knife to her neck, before ultimately taking the lives of her children.

She was diagnosed with post-partum psychosis after attempting suicide twice that summer.

Dr. Eileen Starbranch, Andrea and Rusty's first psychiatrist, testified in court that she advised them to stop having children, but they conceived their fifth and final child seven weeks after that discharge, as previously reported by Planet Chronicle.

His wife advised Rusty Yates not to leave the children alone with her.

The family of Andrea Yates also previously stated to Planet Chronicle that Rusty did not do enough to assist his spouse or their children. Her mother, Karin Kennedy, revealed that her son-in-law informed her after the birth of their fourth child that he had never changed a diaper.

""When they arrived at my home, I informed Rusty for the first time that Luke required a change, to which he responded, 'That's a first. I have never changed a diaper before,'" Kennedy stated."

On June 20, 2001, Andrea Yates confessed to her prison psychologist that she had contemplated murdering her children in a delusional attempt to rescue them from eternal damnation following their deaths.

"According to court documents obtained by The Post, the woman admitted to her prison psychiatrist that her children were not righteous because she was evil. She believed that the way she raised them made them unsavable and destined to burn in hell's fires."

Yates has repeatedly declined a hearing that would have determined her competency to be released from the mental hospital, according to the New York Post.