Crowd Gathers To Support Duxbury Mom Lindsay Clancy At Her Triple Murder Trial: Reports

PLYMOUTH, MA — Hundreds gathered outside the Plymouth courthouse to support Duxbury mom Lindsay Clancy as she stood trial on charges of killing her three young children, according to reports.

"Roughly 300 people — mostly women — stood quietly at a 'Stand in Peace for Lindsay' rally as the Duxbury mother's murder case continued inside, organizers said," Newser reported.

"Hundreds of women dressed in pink turned up outside a Massachusetts courthouse Thursday in support of Lindsay Clancy — whose heart-wrenching triple murder trial has sparked discussion over maternal health care across the country," the New York Post reported.

"Most of the demonstrators were women who said they sympathized with Clancy's effort to get postpartum mental health treatment," according to WBUR.

Clancy, 35, is charged with the January 2023 murders of 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan Clancy.

Clancy, who was treated for postpartum mental health issues, has admitted to killing her children but "her attorney argues she should not be held criminally responsible because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and extreme mental illness when she strangled her kids and then attempted to kill herself," according to CNN.

"Prosecutors have said that in January 2023, Clancy intentionally strangled the three children with fitness bands in their Massachusetts home before jumping out of a second-floor window," the BBC reported. "Clancy, now 36, was paralysed by the jump and has attended the trial in a wheelchair."

Only one witness, Sheila Cavanaugh, a chaplain at Brigham and Women's Hospital, testified Thursday before the jury was dismissed for the day, according to WCVB.

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