A jury is to determine whether Lindsay Clancy is criminally responsible for killing her three children in 2023 in Duxbury, Massachusetts. She was being treated for postpartum mental health issues when she killed the children: Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, who was 8 months old. Plymouth County Superior Court Judge William Sullivan is presiding over the jury trial, which began on July 27 and is expected to last six to eight weeks.
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Lindsay Clancy's lawyer Kevin Reddington began his cross-examination of mental health counselor Latiesha Dukes today by confirming she met with Clancy four times, then questioning her about the specifics of the meetings to try to show the jury her care was inadequate. Clancy is charged with murder for killing her three young children on Jan. 24, 2023, in what she says was a postpartum psychosis. You can watch Dukes' direct-exam testimony this morning (Wednesday, August 12, day 12) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJSXL5KVLAs 02:42 "One of the things that you would be interested in when you're interacting with a patient that that comes to your facility for help is how honest they are, right?" "Yes." "Especially in psychiatry, you want to make sure that the person is not lying to you or hiding something, you want them to be honest, right?" "Yes." 05:13 "So she she told you that she was prescribed benzodiazepine by her treating psychiatrist, and further on into your interaction with her, she told you that she was very concerned about taking medication, right?" "Yes." "And she was really concerned about becoming addicted to medication, such as a benzo, like like Ativan, right?" "She was concerned about becoming addicted to medication, yes." 08:16 "and then she indicates further that this week she was seeing you feels like she's going to die. That's what the DA read to you, right?" "Yes." 10:08 "She indicated three months after the baby was born, she had unmanageable anxiety?" "Yes." "The district attorney asked you, and then it continued on with a sentence. What was her anxiety about?" "About her children, especially the baby." 10:43 "The notes indicate that she reported she talks about her anxiety all the time with her mom, husband, and mother-in-law. Correct?" "Correct." 13:46 "Cannabis, the weed, the devil's lettuce. How about that? Did she confess that she was using marijuana?" "Yes, she said she did use marijuana." "When?" "Last use was November 15, 2022." 14:12 "She said she tried a marijuana gummy to help with sleep." 17:31 Reddington goes through Clancy's prescriptions 18:53 "You then indicate that, based on history reported, patient meets the criteria for postpartum anxiety, right?" "Yes." 19:57 "Did she come to see you for therapy?" "Yes." "How many times?" "Four." 27:26 Women & Infant in Rhode Island "Would it surprise you to know that they indicated that they couldn't treat her as a woman with postpartum psychosis or postpartum depression or postpartum anxiety or any of that, because their opinion was that she was suffering from a an overmedication?" "That would surprise me. Yes." 31:11 "Do you know that Mass General Center for Women's Mental Health about a year ago issued a fairly major study and various recommendations for people that are dealing with women that have postpartum periods and how they break up the periods. You familiar with that?" "No, I'm not familiar with that." 33:00 "For you to diagnose a woman, whether she's pregnant, has the baby, or after having the baby, with postpartum depression, there are certain things that are symptoms that you look for, right?" "Correct." "Okay. One of which would be depressed or sad mood, right?" "Yes." "Lindsay had that, right?" "Yes." 35:55 "She had panic attacks and complained of having panic attacks?" "Yes." "And then you can get into the various diagnoses of which, on a postpartum person, in that time frame, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) right?" "Correct." "Or bipolar one or bipolar two, right?" "So that would be one mental disease, correct?" "Correct." 36:31 "And if a person is diagnosed as bipolar, one of the things that you shouldn't, if you know, is is prescribe SSRIs such as Prozac or Zoloft, right? If you know?" "I'm not sure." 37:26 "Postpartum psychosis, you'd agree, is the most severe form of postpartum psychiatric illness. Is that right?" "Correct." "And it's pretty serious stuff, right?" "Yes." 39:24 "Bottom line is, from your dealing with Lindsay, she appeared to be sincere, right?" "Correct." "She appeared to be help, looking for help, right?" "Correct." "She appeared to be hurting, right?" "Yes." "Turning in every direction she could for help, right?" "Correct." 46:28 "The fact that the government has records that show that she would take her kids or her husband would take her kids, that they would go to a local gym and exercise or swim, that that's consistent with what she was advised, right?" "Correct." "It doesn't mean that she's just out there having a good time exercising, right?" "No." "She was told that's a good thing to do, right?" "She was told that that was a good thing to do, but the fact that she's able to follow through and do it shows improvement."