Lindsay Clancy doesn’t deny what she did. On January 24, 2023, she strangled her three young children — Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and Callan, 8 months — with exercise bands inside the family’s home, then cut her wrists and neck and jumped from a second-floor window in an attempt to end her own life. She survived.
Chillingly, she is not the only mother to have done something so horrific and incomprehensible. And she will not be the last.
Now, weeks into her murder trial in Plymouth County, the jury has to decide whether Clancy was so consumed by postpartum psychosis that she didn’t understand what she was doing.
But how does a mother get this sick, in front of this many doctors?
If anything, this heart wrenching case spotlights a gaping hole in the medical sector.
