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US jury continues deliberations in Lindsay Clancy child killings case
Massachusetts jury weighs whether mother suffering from severe postpartum mental illness is criminally responsible for 2023 deaths
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Associated Press
Published: 5:06am, 1 Sep 2026
Updated: 11:58am, 1 Sep 2026
Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial on Monday spent a third day deliberating without reaching a verdict on whether the former labour and delivery nurse is criminally responsible for killing her three children in 2023 – a case that has drawn attention to maternal <a href="https://healthylife7.com/mental-health-in-wales-what-does-the-data-tell-us/” title=”Mental health in Wales: what does the data tell us?”>mental health after childbirth
The jurors began discussing the case on Thursday in Plymouth County Superior Court in Massachusetts after hearing testimony from more than 70 prosecution witnesses, including her former husband, and 10 defence witnesses over five weeks
The jury is scheduled to resume deliberations on Tuesday
While Clancy does not deny strangling her children, her lawyer said she did it because she had lost her grip on reality due to postnatal psychosis, a rare mental illness that can follow childbirth
In the months before the killings, Clancy sought treatment for her worsening mental health, including a stay in a psychiatric hospital
Prosecutors said Clancy knew what she was doing. They say she strangled the children because she was depressed and tired of living, and made a conscious choice to kill them before attempting suicide
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