Lindsay Clancy Still Suicidal 3 Years After Allegedly Strangling Her 3 Children, Lawyer Says By Chris Spargo 24

Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mom accused of killing her three young children and then trying to take her own life in 2023, is still suicidal, her attorney said in court.

Attorney Kevin Reddington appeared in Plymouth County Superior Court earlier this month at a hearing ahead of Clancy’s upcoming criminal trial, which had now been pushed back from February to July.

At the hearing, Reddington requested that Clancy be able to travel to and from court in a medical vehicle as opposed to a jail van, as is standard for inmates, reported WXFT.

The Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office opposed the request, arguing that Clancy’s arrival in a medical vehicle could cause jurors and members of the public to view her as a victim, rather than as someone accused of plotting and carrying out the murders of her three young children.

Reddington argued that failing to meet Clancy’s medical needs during the trial could lead to a risk of suicide.

The Boston Globe reported that Reddington told the judge that if Clancy harmed herself, “it’s on somebody, and it’s not on me.”

Reddington also said in court that “any sort of custody situation [in a prisoner van] would create a sense of helplessness and loss of control that could trigger mental health responses from [Clancy].”

The judge is expected to rule next week on how Clancy, who has appeared remotely from Tewksbury Hospital for nearly all of her court hearings, will be transported to court.

The request followed the judge’s rejection of Reddington’s motion to move the trial out of Plymouth County.

Clancy’s defense team has announced their intention to seek an insanity defense and argued that the mother was experiencing postpartum psychosis when she asked her husband to go pick up dinner for the pair on Jan. 24, 2023.

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Kevin Clancy returned home 25 minutes later and discovered his wife had jumped out the window of their second-story bedroom.

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While he was on the phone with emergency operators, he discovered the couple’s three children had all been strangled with exercise bands, which were tied around their necks.

The two oldest — Cora, 5, and Dawson, 3 — were pronounced dead soon after arriving at the hospital, and the youngest, 8-month old Callan, died a few days later.

The defense has noted that Clancy, a labor and delivery nurse, had been prescribed 15 medications in the months prior for her postpartum depression.

Her husband has also spoken publicly, saying he forgives his wife and urging members of the public to do the same.

Prosecutors, meanwhile, argue that Clancy carefully planned and plotted before allegedly killing her three children by sending her husband out of the house.

Her trial is now set to start on July 20.