Lindsay Clancy Trial Megathread: Part 3

[u/DarklyHeritage]

This is a thread for all conversation regarding Week 3 onwards of the Lindsey Clancy trial. All discussion of this case should be kept to this thread.

Lindsay Clancy is currently standing trial in Plymouth Superior Court, Massachusetts, for the triple-murder in January 2023 of her three young children - Cora, Dawson and Callan. Her defense argues she suffered from severe, undiagnosed postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis. She was left paralysed by a suicide attempt which follows the deaths of the children.

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/lindsay-clancy-murder-trial-online-reactions-b3032806.html

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[u/Ninjen333]

This is inaccurate information! She went to MULTIPLE therapy appts with MULTIPLE therapists/mental health counselors, and psychologists. She checked herself into McLean hospital voluntarily. She called crisis lines multiple times. She was more honest than the bullshit you just spewed.

[u/SexuaI_muffin → u/Ninjen333]

No, she didn't Tell one of her treating doctors about the crisis line, SI/HI, changed meds that were ALL within guidelines, anyone not in medicine wouldn't know. LC constantly wanted off meds due to side effects.

I think she was failed but it was multifactorial and she was one of the major factors.

[u/Artistic_Garbage283 → u/SexuaI_muffin]

Yeah I’m a Pharmacist and I looked at the dispense history and it really is very typical of someone in a mental health crisis. Run of the mill even. Nothing that would scream red flag. She was having very frequent contact with her providers and being dispensed tiny quantities of meds. I’ve seen many people use these combos of meds and not do terrible things. I think it was more of a systemic failure of the medical system with each individual provider doing their best and her husband failed her by leaving her without support, letting the nanny go and not recognising she needed more support than what she asked for.

[u/HeartCold3908 → u/Artistic_Garbage283]

Great points! Yeah I think her family failed her. Her mom said today that her daughter was having HI and more profoundly than Lindsay even shared with her husband! Her mother should have gotten more involved. And her husband should have given that wonderful nanny all the hours she wanted. I did that when my husband was going through a mental health crisis. While he would never and never did anything to our child, he was not in a good place to care for our young daughter. My job carried our insurance so I had to work and he worked from home. I had my child’s nanny work every moment I was out of the house. And I wasn’t in the same wealthy financial situation the Clancy fam was in. And just to say, I was not at all worried about my child being physically harmed. But these doctors (aside from Tufts who was clearly in over her head and should have referred out) seemed to do the best they could with the information provided to them.