Сэтгэцийн эмчилгээ хийлгэж байхдаа гурван хүүхдээ боомилж амь насыг нь хөнөөсөн хэрэгт буруутгагдаж буй Линдси Клэнсигийн шүүх хурал даваа гарагт шүүгч бүрэлдэхүүнийг сонгосноор эхлэх гэж байна.
Өдгөө 36 настай Линдси Клэнси 2023 оны нэгдүгээр сарын 24-нд 5 настай Кора, 3 настай Доусон, 8 сартай Каллан нарыг хөнөөсөн хэрэгт буруугүй гэж мэдүүлжээ. Тэрээр тухайн үед төрсний дараах сэтгэцийн эмгэгийн улмаас эмчилгээ хийлгэж байсан бөгөөд хэрэг гарсны дараа цонхоор үсэрч амиа хорлохыг завдсаны улмаас саажилттай болсон тул одоогоор улсын эмнэлэгт хянагдаж байна.
Прокурорын зүгээс уг хэргийг урьдчилан төлөвлөсөн, санаатай үйлдэл гэж үзэж байгаа бол өмгөөлөгчид нь түүнийг сэтгэцийн хувьд эрүүл бус байсан гэх үндэслэлээр “галзуу” гэх өмгөөллийг ашиглахаар төлөвлөж байна. Хэрэг гарахын өмнөхөн Линдси Клэнси хүүхдүүдээ хөнөөхийг тушаасан хоолой сонсогдож байсан талаар мэдүүлж, эмнэлгийн тусламж авахаар оролдож байснаа шүүхэд гаргасан нэхэмжлэлдээ дурджээ.
Түүний нөхөр Патрик Клэнси эхнэрээ уучилснаа илэрхийлж, түүнийг жинхэнэ амьдрал дээр халамжтай эх хүн байсныг онцолсон байна. Хэдийгээр нөхөр нь эхнэрээ өмгөөлж байгаа боловч шүүх хуралд гэрчээр оролцох төлөвтэй байна. Хэдэн долоо хоног үргэлжлэх энэхүү шүүх хурлаар төрсний дараах сэтгэцийн эмгэг болон түүний хариуцлагын асуудлыг голчлон хэлэлцэх юм.
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The highly anticipated trial of a Massachusetts mom who is charged with strangling her three children while receiving psychiatric help is set to begin with jury selection on Monday.
Lindsay Clancy, now 36, has pleaded not guilty to murder charges for her kids: Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, who was 8 months old when the siblings were killed on Jan. 24, 2023.
Clancy was undergoing medical treatment at the time of the murders for psychiatric problems that developed after she gave birth
Clancy, now 36, threw herself out a window after killing the children and was paralyzed in the fall. She is being held at a state hospital.
The trial is expected to explore the complicated and rare phenomenon of postpartum psychosis, which afflicts a very small percentage of women who develop delusions and sometimes hallucinations after giving birth. Clancy’s lawyers — and her husband — say she was not responsible for her actions.
Prosecutors say the killings were intentional and well planned, not the work of someone who had lost control.
On the day it happened, Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital, asked her husband, Patrick Clancy, to go out for takeout food and pick up something at the pharmacy. Then, she used exercise bands to strangle her children in the family’s home in Duxbury, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) south of Boston.
Eighteen jurors, including six alternates, are expected to be chosen over several days. The trial is expected to last several weeks.
Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, doesn’t dispute that she killed the children but plans to raise an insanity defense.
“This whole case is an extreme tragedy,” he said.
Clancy and her husband filed lawsuits earlier this year accusing her medical providers of failing to properly diagnose, treat and monitor for her for a “severe postpartum psychiatric condition.”
Lindsay Clancy’s lawsuit detailed how she was depressed, having trouble sleeping and repeatedly hearing voices urging her to harm her children and herself. She spent several days at a psychiatric hospital just weeks before the killings.
“Lindsay Clancy did everything a mother in her situation could do. She recognized something was wrong with her. She sought medical treatment. She went to emergency rooms. She called crisis hotlines. She admitted herself to hospitals. She took the medication prescribed to her. She communicated her worsening symptoms to her providers. She told them the medications were making her worse,” the lawsuit said.
On the day of the killings, Clancy said she heard voices saying, “This is your last chance. Kill the children so you can kill yourself.”
Both sides have Clancy’s husband on their list of witnesses. He has said in interviews that he forgives his wife.
In a post on GoFundMe several days after the killings, Patrick Clancy wrote that the “shock and pain is excruciating and relentless,” but he urged the public to see Lindsay Clancy as he did before the killings.
“The real Lindsay was generously loving and caring toward everyone — me, our kids, family, friends, and her patients. The very fibers of her soul are loving. All I wish for her now is that she can somehow find peace,” it said.
