Mother on trial for killing three children; postpartum psychosis defense clashes with prosecution

Three children—Cora (5), Dawson (3), and Callan (8 months)—were killed by their mother on January 24, 2023. The mother survived a suicide attempt but remains paralyzed.

In a Massachusetts courtroom, a mother stands trial for the deaths of her three young children — not because the facts of that night are in dispute, but because the law must now reckon with the fragile boundary between illness and intent. Lindsay Clancy, a 32-year-old nurse who had been prescribed thirteen psychiatric medications in five months, is said by her defense to have acted within the grip of postpartum psychosis, a rare condition that can dissolve a person's grip on reality without warning. The prosecution insists she acted with deliberate purpose. What the trial ultimately asks is on

Mother on trial for killing three children; postpartum psychosis defense clashes with prosecution

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