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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"using the moral situational action violence risk model for assessing women involved in extremist violence and an empirical study. Is that similar radical?" "Yes." You can watch the end of Saathoff's testimony here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tw1ihA8fqk 03:10 "Morality and the radicalization of women." "What is that? What is that? What was that all about?" "Could I be refreshed with that?" 04:09 "Protection of children during armed political conflicts: a multidisciplinary perspective, right?" "Yes." 08:21 "Do you have any interest, writing, knowledge about postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis?" "Well, it really is a requirement when you assess and treat women to be aware of their histories and and making determinations, so that has continued really throughout my career. Men and women." "What did you just say? Can you repeat that again? You're treating women with what?" "Treating women with with psychiatric problems, serious illness, psychosis." "So, when you define for the district attorney the concept of let's say psychosis yesterday, were you referring in any degree to a woman who has had a baby and is in a period of postpartum depression, shall we say?" "Yes." "Okay." "And when and how were you treating those people?" "That was during the period of 15 years when I ran a unit of men and women who came in with serious psychiatric symptoms." 14:12 "if you're a psychiatrist who's been practicing private practice for about I don't know a month, maybe two, and is prescribing antipsychotic medications, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor medications, benzodiazepine medications to a young woman who is complaining of what the young woman perceives to be difficulties postpartum. Is it important to take a blood test to find out what, if any, prescription drugs they have on board in their system?" 15:20 "Well, it really depends on the the medication. There are some medications that really require blood tests because of levels and and and the like." 25:09 "if you have a young woman who is a nurse, an RN, who worked for seven years in a very prestigious hospital's labor and delivery unit, who was so nervous about drugs that were being prescribed to her that she would at night sit in her kitchen on her phone and Google all sorts of side effects of narcotics, the drugs, the Seroquel, Lamotrigine, all of these drugs. "Is it an unreasonable decision for her to say, 'I don't want to take that drug' in your opinion?" "It seems like you're asking, is it reasonable to decide not to take the the drug?" 27:09 "Doctor, you're an intelligent man. You're a doctor. You've got a lot of experience dealing with the prison system. We've already gone over all of that. You understand my question, don't you?" "Yes." "Is that a reasonable decision, Lindsay, to make to say, I don't wish to take that drug?" "Based on all the side effects, whether or not it's rare that people die, whether or not it's rare that they break out on their skin with these permanent lesions and bleeding pustules, is it reasonable for her to say, I don't want to take it?" "In in her mind, it was. Yeah." 32:42 "Was she in rough shape in October of 2022 after dealing with Tufts for about three weeks?" "She was certainly having difficulty." 36:01 "looked up Tufts, or she didn't even know who Tufts was. She went online and Googled postpartum depression and found an expert. Isn't that right?" "That's my understanding." "But she was only practicing for like a month or two, was she, in your opinion, to a reasonable degree, a psychiatric certainty an expert?" "Objection." "Overruled." "It depends on the amount of training that she received, not just as a physician and a resident, but also in the area of of women's health." 39:52 "This woman was there for treatment of postpartum depression, right?" "She was there for treatment of depression. I was under the impression that most of the women who were in that program were much closer to having had given birth to their children." 42:38 "She was continuing to express concern about her state of mind. She felt that her mind, her brain, was being damaged. Isn't that right" "That's right." 50:06 " here's a young woman with all of what she's been through, who now is to the verge of killing herself, and reaches out to people that her health care providers told her to call for help, said that she was going to kill herself, and what did Aspire do?" "As I understand, they redirected her to her provider." 57:38 "you have a metabolite that actually enhances or increases the GABA activity of the neurons in the brain, right?" "It can, yes."