This story discusses suicide.If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988 or 1-800-273-TALK (8255).A jury has been seated in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother accused of strangling her three young children inside the family’s home while suffering from what her attorneys say was severe postpartum psychosis.The panel of 12 women and six men was finalized Thursday in Plymouth Superior Court, clearing the way for opening statements Monday.
The trial is expected to center not on whether Clancy, 32, caused the children’s deaths, but whether she was legally responsible for her actions.Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse at at the prestigious Mass General Hospital, has pleaded not guilty to three counts each of murder and strangulation in the deaths of Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months.LINDSAY CLANCY’S HUSBAND COULD TESTIFY FOR HER AT TRIAL OVER DEATHS OF THEIR THREE CHILDRENLindsay Clancy was indicted on three counts each of murder in the 2023 deaths of her 5-year-old daughter Cora, 3-year-old son Dawson and 7-month-old son Callan.She pleaded not guilty to the charges.
(Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via Pool)Her attorneys do not dispute that she killed the children but plan to argue that she was experiencing postpartum psychosis and lacked criminal responsibility.Prosecutors allege the killings were intentional and carefully planned."It is usually a hard battle to win," criminal defense attorney and Fox News contributor Donna Rotunno told Fox News Digital of the defense's insanity bid.
"But given the fact that she has such a documented history of treatment and going to doctors and being diagnosed and seeking out more treatment when she wasn’t doing well, I think she can lay the groundwork for it."Rotunno said Clancy’s attorneys are likely to emphasize that her condition allegedly continued to deteriorate even as she sought medical help."She contin...