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Clancy Mistrial Bid Denied After Religion Testimony

Clancy Mistrial Bid Denied After Religion Testimony

Clancy Mistrial Bid Denied After Religion Testimony
Above: Lindsay Clancy listens to testimony at Plymouth Superior Court on Aug. 18. Image credit: Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe/Getty Images

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The health care system abandoned Lindsay Clancy long before January 2023, and that failure is what put those children at risk. Testimony showed she heard commanding voices, experienced acute psychosis and acted out of a devastating belief that her kids couldn't survive without her — that's not rational murder, that's a broken mind left untreated. Convicting her without reckoning with systemic neglect of postpartum mental illness solves nothing.

Lindsay Clancy played in the snow with her kids, ordered takeout and then strangled all three of them one by one — that's not a portrait of someone lost to psychosis, that's deliberate action. Postpartum struggles are real and deserve compassion, but compassion cannot erase accountability for three childrenlives who are gone foreverlost. Anything short of full accountability is a betrayal of Cora, Dawson and Callan.

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