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 attorney ended his cross-examination of the final prosecution witness in her murder trial today by reading part of the prosecution's opening statement from July 27, which the witness said "minimizes" Clancy's situation. Kevin Reddington referenced an opening statement but did not specify the statements was from Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague's opening statement in Clancy's trial. "Lindsay made a calculated decision. She was a woman who no longer liked the life she thought she wanted. It was getting harder and harder for her to control, and when she saw the opportunity to escape, she made the selfish choice to take it and to take Cora, Dawson and Callan first before attempting to take her own life." "She chose to manipulate her providers, seek out a quick and easy fix. When she was feeling depressed and anxious, and when she didn't get what she expected, she chose the alternate route. She would seek a different doctor. She would change medications after days. She disengaged from treatment that she didn't like the plan, and after only four months in treatment, she made a choice-a deliberate and intentional decision that she did not want to try anymore. And because no one could take care of her kids the way she wanted them to, she had to take them with her, too." "Would you agree that the evidence, in your opinion, supports that contention, sir?" Reddington asked Gregory Saathoff, a senior psychiatrist in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Behavioral Analysis Unit. Well, there's a lot in that," Saathoff said. "Yeah, it is. Do you agree that it would support your contention, sir, or it would not? "I think that statement that you read really minimizes what she was going through," Saathoff said. The Clark County District Attorney's Office paid Saathoff to evaluate Clancy amid her defense that's she's not guilty by reason of insanity because of postpartum psychosis. Saathoff met with Clancy in May and July of this year. He testified that she understood right from wrong when she killed her children. You can watch his entire testimony on my YouTube channel.