Lindsay Clancy ‘described thoughts of hurting the kids’
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Clancy → describe → kids
Lindsay Clancy’s ex-husband, 36-year-old Patrick Clancy, took the stand as a key figure in the case, testifying about his wife’s worsening mental health in the months leading up to the killings of five-year old Cora, three-year old Dawson and eight-month old Callan.
Patrick Clancy described Lindsay as a “very dedicated” mother who struggled with her mental health and “just had a really hard time being separated from them”.
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who → take → them
Approximately two months before the killings, Lindsay “described thoughts of hurting the kids or them having some sort of ailment”, Patrick Clancy testified.
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Clancy → describe → ailment
He said his then wife told him that she did not have a specific plan to hurt the children and did not think she needed to be separated from them.
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she → say → them
“It was very confusing because a minute later, she was making them lunch or playing with them or getting ready for bed or whatever it was,” Patrick Clancy said, adding that Lindsay was not displaying “any intention” of hurting the kids.
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Lindsay → make → kids
He also testified that Lindsay began expressing suicidal thoughts in December 2022, saying: “She started to say that she was suicidal.”
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she → testify → December
After killing her children, Lindsay allegedly attempted to take her own life by jumping from her home’s second-floor window which left her paralyzed from the waist down.
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which → kill → down
Lindsay Clancy’s chaplain: “She said to me … ‘I’m so glad my children are safe’” after killings
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children → say → killings
Sheila Cavanaugh, a chaplain at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, who met with Lindsay Clancy numerous times after the killings of her children, also testified in court.
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who → meet → court
“Her emotional state was very neutral, a flat affect, but I remember vividly the first thing she said to me,” Cavanaugh testified, recalling her conversation with Lindsay at the hospital where she was still “covered” in tubes and wearing a neck brace.
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she → remember → brace
“We had been praying together, and so when I went in on Tuesday the 31 [of January], she said to me as I held her hand to comfort her: ‘I am so glad my children are safe,’” Cavanaugh said.
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Cavanaugh → pray → her
Cavanaugh further testified that Lindsay Clancy said she had heard a male voice several times, which “according to Lindsay, told her that if she did not follow the command, neither she nor her children would be safe”.
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she → testify → command
“She alluded to the fact that it was a male voice and it was persistent,” Cavanaugh said.
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Cavanaugh → allude → fact
During cross-examination, when asked why her notes did not mention the voice, Cavanaugh explained that she was “not there to evaluate the patient” but instead to “bear witness to their suffering”.
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she → ask → suffering
Lindsay Clancy’s mother and sister also testified about the deterioration of her mental state in the months leading up to the killings of her three children, describing increasing paranoia, insomnia and suicidal thoughts.
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mother → testify → paranoia
Paula Musgrove, Lindsay Clancy’s mother, testified that her daughter had become increasingly paranoid in the fall of 2022.
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daughter → testify → 2022
Musgrove said Lindsay Clancy was afraid to sleep alone and believed the medications she was taking “were destroying her mind”.
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she → say → mind
In December 2022, Musgrove testified she was in the kitchen with Lindsay Clancy and Patrick Clancy when “she told us she had thoughts of harming the children.”
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she → testify → children
A text message from Lindsay Clancy to her mother shown in court also detailed her worsening condition.
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message → show → condition
It read: “Mom, will you please come up and stay with me for a bit?
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you → read → bit
I’m really sick.
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I → ’m → ?
I had horrible insomnia all night, and I just don’t know how I am going to get through the day …
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I → have → day
It’s just really scary, and I don’t want to be alone.”
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I → ’ → ?
Lindsay Clancy’s sister, Allison Ozga, similarly testified about her sister’s declining mental state.
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sister → testify → state
During Thanksgiving 2022, Ozga said Lindsay Clancy’s “mood did not look good”.
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mood → say → Thanksgiving
By December, Ozga testified that her sister “very much decompensated”.
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sister → testify → December
“I’m in a really tough spot,” Ozga recalled her sister saying, adding that toward the end of December 2022, Lindsay Clancy told her she “had suicidal ideation every day for a month.”
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she → ’m → month
Meanwhile, Lindsay Clancy’s former mother-in-law, Susan Clancy, testified that Lindsay Clancy was “begging for help” as her mental health struggles worsened.
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struggles → testify → help
“Lindsay was struggling, we were all concerned,” Susan Clancy said.
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Clancy → struggle → ?
She also confirmed that her son went skiing after dropping Lindsay Clancy off at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island for treatment in December 2022.
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son → confirm → December
Lindsay Clancy supporters rally outside courthouse
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supporters → rally → courthouse
Over 300 supporters, mostly women, rallied outside the courthouse in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in support of Lindsay Clancy as the trial shed light on women’s struggles with mental health.
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trial → rally → health
Many of the supporters wore pink with the words: “Believe”, “She Needed Help” and “Peace For Lindsay”.
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She → wear → Lindsay
Speaking to the Associated Press during the rally, April Vincent, a 52-year-old paralegal from Providence, Rhode Island, said: “Women are being dismissed, neglected and ignored when we speak up …
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we → speak → Providence
We’re scared because nobody takes us seriously.”
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nobody → ’re → us
Jeanne Zaborski, a 72-year-old retired nurse from Rockland, Massachusetts, told the outlet from the outside of the courthouse: “It’s very sad …
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It → tell → courthouse
I have a sister who had problems after birth and it’s just very sad.
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it → have → birth
I hope Lindsay gets the care she needs and deserves and other women will come together like we did today.”
5. Civil medical malpractice lawsuits remain under way
Lindsay Clancy and her ex-husband, Patrick Clancy, have filed several civil lawsuits against doctors and hospitals involved in Lindsay Clancy’s care.
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Clancy → hope → care
Lindsay Clancy alleges negligence and medical malpractice, while Patrick Clancy alleges wrongful death.
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Clancy → allege → death
Lindsay Clancy’s lawsuit alleges that the defendants “each failed to properly diagnose Lindsay’s bipolar disorder with postpartum onset and instead subjected her to a disorganized, uncoordinated course of polypharmacy that exacerbated her condition and precipitated a severe psychotic break.”
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that → allege → break
…and 2 more, not listed.
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