Lindsay Clancy child murder case: Duxbury mom accused of killing three children returns to court

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TEWKSBURY, MASSACHUSETTS: The mother who was charged with killing her three small children by strangulation in the basement of their Duxbury home was not present in court when the Lindsay Clancy case returned.

Clancy's appearance in Plymouth on Friday afternoon at Plymouth County Superior Court would have had to occur via Zoom, the online video conferencing service, as she remains incarcerated without bond and is subject to an extended six-month stay at Tewksbury Hospital, as mandated by the ruling made at her October hearing from the hospital.

Lindsay Clancy accused of killing her three children

As was mentioned at the October hearing, the hospital's privacy policies make hearings logistically challenging. As a result, Kevin Reddington, Clancy's attorney, waived her appearance in court on Friday and has already done the same for the following date.

The new time is set for January 17 at 9 a.m. at the Brockton location of Plymouth Superior Court. The sole topics of discussion at Friday's hearing were scheduling timelines for evidence discovery and document sharing, the Boston Herald reported.

Clancy is accused of killing her three children, Callan, age eight months, Dawson, age three, and Cora, age five, by strangulation on the evening of January 24 in the basement of their Duxbury, Massachusetts, home at 47 Summer St Attorneys claim that she stabbed herself with a knife in front of her full-length bedroom mirror immediately after the strangulations and then leaped out of the window twenty feet to the ground, where her husband Patrick Clancy would discover her when he came back with their takeout dinner.

Lindsay Clancy was suffering from postpartum depression

At Tewksbury Hospital, Clancy is still bedridden and receiving treatment for her poor mental health in addition to the injuries she inflicted on herself that fateful January night, which Reddington claims rendered her paraplegic.

After evaluating Clancy that morning, forensic psychologist Dr Karin Towers recommended the prolonged hospital stay at the most recent hearing.

She found that the defendant had a flat affect, and was experiencing "unbearable depression and trouble getting through each day," feelings of worthlessness, and frequent suicidal thoughts.

Reddington stated that Lindsay Clancy was experiencing postpartum depression at the time of the children's deaths.

As far back as last September, according to court documents, Clancy, a labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital, was taking antidepressants, benzodiazepine medications that target anxiety, and the antipsychotic drug Seroquel.

She left a note on her phone in October of last year, saying, "I think I sort of resent my other children because they prevent me from treating Cal like my first baby. And I know that’s not fair to them. … I know it (rubs) off on them so we had a pretty rough evening. I want to feel love and connection with all of my kids.”