HOUSTON, April 11 (UPI) -- The family of Andrea Yates has complained to the Harris County district attorney about the care she was receiving from a Houston psychiatrist at the time she drowned her five children.
District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal refused Thursday to comment on the written complaint filed Wednesday with his office against Mohammed Saeed. The psychiatrist did not return a call seeking his response to the letter.
Three members of the Yates family signed the letter that alleged Saeed, former medical director at Devereux Texas Treatment Network, failed to properly manage Yates' medication and released her from the hospital when she was dangerously delusional.
"We feel that Dr. Saeed's actions of excessive, harmful treatment, and his lack of action to warn about the endangerment of the children, made him negligent in his duty to protect the children," wrote Yates' brothers, Brian and Andrew Kennedy, and her mother, Jutta Karin Kennedy.
The Austin office of the International Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a mental health watchdog group created by the Church of Scientology, helped the family develop the complaint, according to the Houston Chronicle.
Jerry Boswell, president of the Austin chapter, told the newspaper the complaint did not ask specifically that criminal charges be filed, but the goal is to see Saeed charged with criminal negligence.
Saeed treated Yates during two hospitalizations at Devereux last year and saw her twice in his office after her second discharge May 14.
Yates confessed to police that she drowned her five children in the family's bathtub June 20. She was convicted of capital murder March 12 and sentenced to life in prison. She is currently undergoing evaluation at a state psychiatric prison.
