Opening statements are set to begin later this morning in the triple-murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother who has argued she is not criminally responsible for fatally strangling her children.
Clancy, a 35-year-old former labor and delivery nurse at a hospital in Boston, has pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder for the January 2023 killings of her children Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and 8-month-old Callan. She is being held at the public Tewksbury Hospital in Massachusetts.
While she did kill her children, she shouldn’t be found criminally responsible for murder, her lawyer, Kevin Reddington, has said in court proceedings as recently as June.
Clancy had long struggled with depression, even going so far as to voluntarily commit herself to a local psychiatric hospital less than a month before her children’s deaths, Reddington has said. Clancy’s doctors took her on and off medications to treat the depression, which her attorney has said worsened her symptoms.
“Our society fails miserably in treating women with postpartum depression or even postpartum psychosis,” Reddington said at a 2023 arraignment hearing. “This is a situation that clearly was a product of mental illness.”
