If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).While failures by people, medical professionals and systems around Lindsay Clancy deserve scrutiny, nothing should erase a parent’s responsibility for killing a child, according to a veteran prosecutor who said he's concerned that public support for the Massachusetts mom is overshadowing the killing of her three young children.Clancy is accused of killing her three young children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months — and trying to end her own life by dropping from a second-floor window after sending her husband to pick up takeout and something from a pharmacy, according to the Plymouth County District Attorney's Office.But as the case has drawn national attention, Clancy has also attracted supporters both online and in-person at the courthouse, and experts have warned that that support has taken attention away from the victims.LINDSAY CLANCY'S THREE CHILD VICTIMS FORGOTTEN AMID CROWDS OF SUPPORT: MOTHER OF SIXCallan, left, Dawson and Cora Clancy.The three children were killed at their Duxbury, Massachusetts, home in January 2023.
(Lindsay Marie Clancy/Facebook)"Nobody who murders children is a victim no matter what they’re suffering through," said Jonathan Hatami, a veteran child abuse prosecutor."You're never a victim if you murder people because victims don't do something.
Something happens to them."GOT A TIP?(L) Lindsay and Patrick Clancy with two of their three children in this undated photo.(R) Lindsay Clancy listens to testimony from her former mother-in-law at her murder trial in Plymouth Mass., Tuesday Aug.
18, 2026 in Plymouth, Mass.(Lindsay Marie Clancy/ Facebook and Jonathan Wiggs/Pool The Boston Globe via AP)The defense does not dispute that Clancy caused the deaths — but she has pleaded not guilty and is contesting criminal responsibility.Hatami has spearheaded a number of high-profile cases agai...