Did Lindsay Clancy's Doctors Cause Her Children's Deaths?

Lindsay Clancy told her doctors she was having thoughts of harming her children. They prescribed more medication. Her husband begged them to stop. They increased the dosage. Three children are dead, and the only person sitting at a defendant’s table is the mother who tried to get help.

Clancy faces three counts of first-degree murder for the January 2023 deaths of five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson, and eight-month-old Callan in Duxbury, Massachusetts. She is pleading not guilty by reason of insanity, arguing she was experiencing postpartum psychosis driven by command hallucinations and a catastrophic failure of medical care.

According to two civil lawsuits — one filed by Lindsay, one by her husband Patrick — Lindsay was prescribed at least ten psychiatric medications in four months by providers who never coordinated her treatment or arrived at a correct diagnosis. She was a labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital who understood something was wrong and fought to get help. She voluntarily hospitalized herself three times. She called a crisis hotline and was turned away because she didn’t have a specific plan.

Patrick Clancy, the father of all three children, filed a wrongful death suit against her healthcare providers. He is testifying for the defense at her murder trial. He has publicly blamed the medical system — not his wife — for what happened.

The prosecution argues Lindsay was lucid and planned the killings. Their key evidence of her mental state: a hospital assessment that ruled out bipolar disorder. Two lawsuits and a forensic psychiatric evaluation allege that assessment was wrong. The diagnosis she needed — Bipolar Disorder I with psychosis and postpartum onset — came after her children were already gone.

Jury selection begins July 20 in Plymouth Superior Court.

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