Lindsay Clancy Still Suicidal 3 Years After Allegedly Strangling Her 3 Children, Lawyer Says

Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother accused of killing her three young children and then attempting to take her own life in 2023, remains suicidal, her attorney told a judge in court.

Attorney Kevin Reddington appeared in Plymouth County Superior Court earlier this month for a hearing ahead of Clancy’s criminal trial, which has now been delayed from February to July.

At the hearing, Reddington asked the court to allow Clancy to be transported to and from court in a medical vehicle instead of a standard jail van, reported WXFT.

Prosecutors opposed the request, arguing that arriving in a medical vehicle could influence potential jurors and the public by making Clancy appear like a victim rather than someone accused of planning and carrying out the killings.

Reddington said the issue is safety, warning that if Clancy’s medical needs are not properly met during the trial, the risk of self-harm could increase. The Boston Globe reported that he told the judge that if Clancy harmed herself, “it’s on somebody, and it’s not on me.”

He also argued that being transported in a prisoner van could create a feeling of helplessness and loss of control that might trigger serious mental health responses.

The judge is expected to rule next week on how Clancy will be transported. Clancy has appeared remotely from Tewksbury Hospital for most of her court hearings.

The request comes after the judge denied Reddington’s motion to move the trial out of Plymouth County.

Clancy’s defense has said it plans to pursue an insanity defense, arguing she was experiencing postpartum psychosis on Jan. 24, 2023, when she asked her husband to go pick up dinner.

Kevin Clancy returned about 25 minutes later, according to reports, and found that his wife had jumped from a second-story bedroom window.

Authorities later determined the couple’s three children had been strangled with exercise bands tied around their necks. The two oldest children — Cora, 5, and Dawson, 3 — were pronounced dead shortly after arriving at the hospital. The youngest, Callan, who was 8 months old, died days later.

The defense has also said Clancy, a labor and delivery nurse, had been prescribed 15 medications in the months leading up to the deaths for postpartum depression.

Her husband has spoken publicly, saying he forgives his wife and urging the public to do the same.

Prosecutors, however, allege that Clancy carefully planned the killings, including by sending her husband out of the home before the children were attacked.

Clancy’s trial is now scheduled to begin July 20.