Lawyer spends hours tearing apart shrink who prescribed Lindsay Clancy drugs before she killed 3 kids
Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer spent hours Monday grilling the shrink who treated Clancy in the months before she strangled her three kids — ripping the doctor for only having a month on the job before she started treating the troubled mom.Dr.Jennifer Tufts took the witness stand for the second day at Clancy’s Plymouth, Mass., trial and was subjected to a relentless and blistering cross-examination by Kevin Reddington.“If you advertise as an expert in postpartum and you have a month of experience, plus a residency, would you consider that to be negligent or misrepresentation?” Reddington said.“I do not believe that I’ve been negligent,” Tufts responded.“You really want this jury to believe you were an expert?” the attorney pressed.“I don’t believe that’s the wording that I used.
I said it was an interest of mine … I don’t believe I called myself an expert,” Tufts said.The 35-year-old Duxbury mother first saw Tufts on Sept.15, 2022, four months before she killed kids Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan and then tried to kill herself on Jan.
24, 2023.Clancy appeared emotional at times as Reddington forced Tufts to dissect every action she made in Clancy’s case.Tufts, 36, admitted that she had only been with a private practice Aster Mental Health — her first job out of her residency — for one month before she started treating Clancy.“I was practicing independently … for about a month, but the training is immense,” Tufts said of her four-year residency through Boston Medical Center, which included a year working with a postpartum specialist.Reddington also questioned Tufts about the fact that Clancy and her then-husband, Patrick Clancy, had both filed medical malpractice lawsuits against Tufts and other providers for allegedly misdiagnosing and overmedicating Clancy.“You’re a defendant in a very large lawsuit, right?” Reddington asked.The prosecution objected, but Judge William Sullivan allowed Tufts to answer.“Yes,�...