The US mother’s lawyer urged jurors to find her not guilty by reason of insanity, arguing that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis when she killed her three young children.
Lindsay Clancy, looks toward reporters in the courtroom during proceedings in her murder trial, Thursday, Aug 20, 2026, in Plymouth, Mass. (Photo: AP/Josh Reynolds)
28 Aug 2026 03:47AM
BOSTON: Lindsay Clancy's lawyer urged jurors at the end of her murder trial on Thursday (Aug 27) to conclude that she was in the throes of postpartum psychosis when the Massachusetts woman killed her three young children in 2023, an act a prosecutor said she intentionally carried out after sending her husband out on an errand.Clancy, 36, admits that she killed her three children by strangling them with exercise bands in the basement of her home in the Boston suburb of Duxbury in January 2023. She then cut herself with a knife and jumped from a second-story window in a failed attempt to end her own life that left her paralyzed.But defence attorney Kevin Reddington during his closing argument in Plymouth County Superior Court urged jurors to find her not guilty by reason of insanity on the three counts of first-degree murder she faces, presenting a defence that throughout the trial has revived a nationwide debate over how postpartum mental health in women is treated in the US."Her mind was gone," he said.
