Lindsay Clancys worst day revealed weeks before she killed her 3 kids: Persistent and intrusive thoughts of suicide
Lindsay Clancy’s “worst day” was revealed in court Tuesday with jurors learning she was plagued with “persistent and intrusive thoughts of suicide” — but denied entry into an outpatient program over fears she was “overmedicated,” her lawyer alleged.The 35-year-old Massachusetts mother of three called a nurse practitioner on Dec.15, 2022, with her then-husband, Patrick Clancy, to report she was having such dark thoughts and they would likely go to the emergency department of Mass General Hospital.
Just a month later, she would go on to kill her kids before attempting to kill herself.Nurse practitioner Rebecca Jollotta – who works at South Shore Hospital’s Perinatal Behavioral Clinic – said the pair told her “this has been the worst day for Lindsay.”She was having “persistent and intrusive thoughts of suicide” but she had “no active plan” to harm herself, Jolllota said, reading from her notes about the phone call.The Clancys told Jollotta they would “likely go to MGH” but that Clancy was also considering checking herself into mental institution McLean Hospital, Jollotta told the jury.Follow The Post’s live updates on the Lindsay Clancy trialClancy did go to the emergency room that day and ended up opting out of checking into McLean, deciding instead that she would join an outpatient program at Women and Infants Hospital in Rhode Island, Jollotta said.The nurse practitioner had “strongly, strongly” recommended that Clancy check into Women and Infants in a Dec.12, 2022 MyChart message to the struggling postpartum mom – who’d given birth to her 8-month-old son, Callan, in May 2022, the jury learned.Ironically, when Clancy went to Women and Infants on Dec.
20, 2022, they turned her away because they thought she might have been taking too many prescription medications, according to Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington.“Did you know that, in fact, they wouldn’t accept her because of their concern she had been overmedicate...