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Trial begins for Lindsay Clancy, mother on trial in deaths of her 3 children
PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — In the months after the birth of her third child, Lindsay Clancy 's mental health collapsed. Manic, unable to sleep and stricken with thoughts of harming herself, she sought care from experts in postpregnancy mood disorders, was put on multiple psychiatric medications, and when nothing worked, checked in to a psychiatric hospital. Nineteen days after she was discharged, she strangled her three children at their Massachusetts home. A jury is set to hear opening statements Monday in Clancy's murder trial, which will feature dueling views about her culpability and mental state. Prosecutors are set to argue that Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital, carefully planned the killings and bears full responsibility for their deaths. Clancy's lawyer, Kevin Reddington, will argue that at the time of the killings she was ...
