{"id":774137,"date":"2026-07-20T16:11:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/774137\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T16:11:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:11:16","slug":"trial-begins-for-massachusetts-mom-who-says-postpartum-issues-led-her-to-kill-3-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/774137\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial begins for Massachusetts mom who says postpartum issues led her to kill 3 children"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jury selection begins Monday in the trial of a Massachusetts mother<\/a> who strangled her three children while undergoing medical treatment for psychiatric problems that developed after she gave birth.<\/p>\n

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Lindsay Clancy has pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the deaths of her children<\/a> Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, who was 8 months old when the siblings were killed on Jan. 24, 2023.<\/p>\n

Clancy, now 36, threw herself out a window after killing the children and was paralyzed in the fall. She is being held at a state hospital.<\/p>\n

The trial is expected to explore the complicated and rare phenomenon of postpartum psychosis, which afflicts a very small percentage of women who develop delusions and sometimes hallucinations after giving birth. Clancy\u2019s lawyers \u2014 and her husband \u2014 say she was not responsible for her actions.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors say the killings were intentional and well planned, not the work of someone who had lost control.<\/p>\n

\"Image:Lindsay Clancy appears in a hospital bed during her arraignment at Plymouth District Court on Feb. 7, 2023, in Plymouth, Mass.David L. Ryan \/ Pool via AP file<\/p>\n

On the day it happened, Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital, asked her husband, Patrick Clancy, to go out for takeout food and pick up something at the pharmacy. Then, she used exercise bands to strangle her children in the family\u2019s home in Duxbury, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) south of Boston.<\/p>\n

Eighteen jurors, including six alternates, are expected to be chosen over several days. The trial is expected to last several weeks.<\/p>\n

Clancy\u2019s attorney, Kevin Reddington, doesn\u2019t dispute that she killed the children but plans to raise an insanity defense.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis whole case is an extreme tragedy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Clancy and her husband filed lawsuits earlier this year accusing her medical providers of failing to properly diagnose, treat and monitor for her for a \u201csevere postpartum psychiatric condition.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lindsay Clancy\u2019s lawsuit detailed how she was depressed, having trouble sleeping and repeatedly hearing voices urging her to harm her children and herself. She spent several days at a psychiatric hospital just weeks before the killings.<\/p>\n

\u201cLindsay Clancy did everything a mother in her situation could do. She recognized something was wrong with her. She sought medical treatment. She went to emergency rooms. She called crisis hotlines. She admitted herself to hospitals. She took the medication prescribed to her. She communicated her worsening symptoms to her providers. She told them the medications were making her worse,\u201d the lawsuit said.<\/p>\n

On the day of the killings, Clancy said she heard voices saying, \u201cThis is your last chance. Kill the children so you can kill yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both sides have Clancy\u2019s husband on their list of witnesses. He has said in interviews that he forgives his wife.<\/p>\n

In a post on GoFundMe several days after the killings, Patrick Clancy wrote that the \u201cshock and pain is excruciating and relentless,\u201d but he urged the public to see Lindsay Clancy as he did before the killings.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe real Lindsay was generously loving and caring toward everyone \u2014 me, our kids, family, friends, and her patients. The very fibers of her soul are loving. All I wish for her now is that she can somehow find peace,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

If you or someone you know is in crisis, call or text 988 or go to 988lifeline.org<\/a> to reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, or visit SpeakingOfSuicide.com\/resources<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jury selection begins Monday in the trial of a Massachusetts mother who strangled her three children while undergoing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-774137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}