Judge finds NYC mom with postpartum psychosis not guilty of killing her 2 young kids
A Bronx judge found a mother of two suffering from postpartum psychosis not guilty of killing her young children in 2022 — while jurors in Massachussets are in the middle of deliberating a similar fate for Lindsay Clancy. Dimone Fleming, 26, was found not responsible by mental disease or defect in court on Monday for the deaths of her two children, 3-year-old Daishawn Fleming and 11-month-old Octavius Canada, at a Bronx family shelter, the New York Times reported. On the night of the gruesome killings, Fleming was “grossly psychotic and out of touch with reality,” according to psychiatrist Dr.Eric Goldsmith.Goldsmith, who evaluated Fleming at the request of the prosecution, said she was hallucinating, convinced that the world was coming to an end and believed a spirit had invaded her body. Similarly, “Ms.
Fleming believed her actions were necessary to protect or ‘cleanse’ her children,” according to a forensic psychiatrist report written by doctors hired by the defense.Prior to the killings, Fleming had been treated at a Queens hospital for two months where she was diagnosed with major depressive disorder and prescribed psychotropic medication, the Times reported, citing court records.But the mother of two did not take her medication as prescribed and instead used marijuana daily — which reportedly exacerbated her mental health symptoms.Mental examinations ordered by both the prosecution and defense determined Fleming was in a state of psychosis at the time of the bloody killings. On the night of Nov.
26, 2022, a shelter employee called 911 on reports of water and smoke coming from Fleming’s apartment. Police found Fleming “acting irrationally” and she was taken to hospital for evaluation.Cops didn’t initially notice the slain boys buried under a pile of clothes in the bathtub when they took her away as a neighbor told police the young children were with their father.Shortly after, Fleming’s then-boyfriend and father of 11-month-ol...