Live updates: Lindsay Clancy trial begins with opening statements
What to Know
- Opening statements are expected to get underway Monday morning in the trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Duxbury, Massachusetts, mom accused of killing her three children.
- Prosecutors say Clancy strangled her children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months — on Jan. 24, 2023, after sending her then-husband, Patrick, out for some errands. She then jumped out of the home’s second-story window and was paralyzed from the waist down in the fall.
- Patrick Clancy is expected to be the first witness to take the stand.
- The trial is expected to last several weeks.
Editor’s note: Elements of this trial may be disturbing to some readers.
A jury is set to hear opening statements Monday in the trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Duxbury, Massachusetts, mom accused of killing her three children in 2023.
Prosecutors are set to argue that Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital, 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 suffering from postpartum psychosis, a rare mental illness linked to the stress, sleep deprivation and hormonal changes that follow childbirth.
The trial is expected to take several weeks.
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