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Jury selection began Monday in the trial of a Massachusetts mother who strangled her three children while undergoing medical treatment for psychiatric problems that developed after she gave birth.
The trial of Lindsay Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital, could take several weeks and is expected to explore the complicated and rare phenomenon of postpartum psychosis, which afflicts a very small percentage of women who develop delusions and sometimes hallucinations after childbirth.
Five jurors were selected Monday. A total of 18 jurors, including six alternates, will be chosen for the trial.
Clancy's lawyers -- and her husband -- say she was not responsible for her actions. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington doesn't dispute that she killed the children, but plans to raise an insanity defense.
