Defense Lawyer Takes Aim at Psychiatrist's Care Before Lindsay Clancy Killed Her 3 Kids
Defense lawyers say postpartum psychosis and medication issues made Lindsay Clancy not criminally responsible for the deaths of her three children.
- Testimony resumed Monday in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, Massachusetts mother, with defense attorney Kevin Reddington beginning his cross-examination of Dr. Jennifer Tufts, the psychiatrist who treated Clancy before the 2023 killings at Plymouth Superior Court.
- Defense attorney Kevin Reddington contends that Clancy suffered from undiagnosed postpartum psychosis and received improper medication, while prosecutors argue she was aware of her actions when she killed her three children in January 2023.
- The defense noted that Clancy received 30 prescriptions for 13 drugs from at least six providers between September 2022 and the January 2023 deaths, while questioning Tufts about the 14 telemedicine visits she conducted.
- While Tufts testified she observed no signs of psychosis during her sessions, Dr. Veerle Bergink, director of the Women's Mental Health Center at Mount Sinai, said multiple providers missed Clancy's diagnosis.
- Clancy alleges a "catastrophic failure" of multiple medical providers in diagnosing and treating her psychiatric condition, as Reddington continues arguing her mental state left her unable to distinguish right from wrong.
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Lindsay Clancy trial turns focus to medications prescribed before she killed her children
Clancy messaged one of her caregivers less than two months before she killed her three young children in 2023 to say she was having “intrusive thoughts I never had before,” “feeling completely hopeless” and worried about becoming addicted to some medications.
At Lindsay Clancy trial, focus turns to medications prescribed before she killed her 3 children
Lindsay Clancy messaged one of her caregivers less than two months before she killed her three young children in 2023 to say she was having “intrusive thoughts I never had before,” “feeling completely hopeless” and worried about becoming addicted to some medications.
What to know about the trial of Lindsay Clancy, woman accused of killing her 3 children
Lindsay Clancy's legal team does not deny that the Massachusetts mother killed her children, but is arguing she shouldn't be held criminally responsible because she was mentally ill — in the grip of bipolar disorder and postpartum psychosis. Prosecutors say she plotted to get her husband out of the house so she could carry out the murders.
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