Massachusetts mother who suffered postpartum psychosis and strangled her three children to death is being held without bail and committed to psychiatric care because she is ‘at immediate risk of self-harm’

A Massachusetts mother who suffered from postpartum psychosis and allegedly strangled her three children will be held without bail and committed to psychiatric care because she is “at immediate risk of self-harm,” a judge ruled.

Judge William F. Sullivan ordered that Lindsay Clancy, 33, be held without bail and receive psychiatric care at Tewksbury Hospital for six months during a court hearing held Thursday morning via Zoom.

Judge Sullivan ruled that Clancy was ‘at imminent risk of self-harm’ after Dr. Karin Towers, a forensic psychiatrist, reported during the arraignment that Clancy experiences “unbearable depression and struggles to get through each day.”

“It is my opinion that she should be committed to a psychiatric hospital on an ongoing basis,” Towers said after examining Clancy earlier that morning.

Clancy pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder and strangulation after allegedly attacking and killing her three children Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan on January 24 at the family home in Duxbury.

Clancy, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, was not visible during the videoconference at Tewksbury Hospital, and her next court hearing is scheduled for December 15.

Prosecutor Jennifer Sprague provided additional details about the events of Jan. 24, in which a fitness watch followed Clancy’s path from the basement — where she allegedly strangled her children with exercise bands — to the second floor.

Investigative affidavits revealed that the mother cut her wrists and neck before jumping out of the second-floor window.

Sprague said the wording was “superficial” and did not require stitches, casting doubt on the seriousness of Clancy’s suicide attempt. She added that the wounds were not bleeding by the time her husband found her.

Sprague said Clancy seemed to know who she is, and emphasized that there were “no hallucinations or delusions” in Clancy’s notes, in which she documented her life and the lives of her children.

Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, refuted Sprague’s argument, saying he could “see the blood on the floor, on the wall and on the window” from his client’s wounds, unlike what Sprague described as a ‘dinky cut’. .’

A court document obtained by DailyMail.com on Tuesday shows that she allegedly researched murder methods before strangling her three children to death and attempting to commit suicide.

The mother, a labor and delivery nurse, then attempted suicide, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. She remains in the hospital, even going so far as to address the court from a hospital bed.

The unsealed statement showed that investigators had obtained a warrant for her electronic devices, where Clancy would keep a diary about her mental health and feelings about children, but also “research ways to kill.”

Suffering from severe postpartum depression, Clancy had been prescribed an “excessive” cocktail of pills that her forgiving husband Patrick Clancy believes are responsible for the tragedy.

Investigators took bottles of diazepam, amitriptyline and trazodone, all antidepressants, from Clancy’s home on January 25. All three had been prescribed to her within the past sixteen days.

It’s also been revealed that Clancy’s husband, Patrick, was in the basement when police arrived to check on Lindsay and knew “something was wrong because his kids wouldn’t wake up.”

He approached the police and started shouting: ‘She killed the children!’ While making the discoveries, he found two of his children with a band around their necks, turning their faces “blue and purple.”

Authorities conducted a thorough search of the home, going through the home’s cameras, receipts, a CVS bag containing the child laxative Lindsay asked Patrick to buy, the murder weapons, the knife and several notebooks.

The books contain a more complete list of the medications Lindsay was prescribed: Zoloft, Valium, Trazodone, Ativan, Klonopin, Prozac and Seroquel. It didn’t seem like she got them all at once.

Postpartum psychosis is defined by the National Institutes of Health as the most severe form of mental illness in that category, and is characterized by extreme confusion, loss of contact with reality, paranoia, delusions, disorganized thought process and hallucinations.”

It usually occurs within the first six weeks after delivery and “ensures immediate medical and psychiatric attention and hospitalization if there is a risk of suicide or filicide.”

Clancy’s attorney, Kevin J. Reddington, previously told a judge that the drugs she was prescribed made her feel like a “zombie.”

Chilling audio of the 911 call Patrick made that night reveals the extent of the horror.

Patrick found his wife lying outside their home after returning from getting takeaway food for the family.

As first responders arrived on the scene and tended to his wife, Patrick was heard screaming in the basement of the home.

There he found the children unconscious and blue with exercise bands around their necks.

The state’s chief medical examiner would declare that the two older children had died of asphyxiation, while little Callan had died of complications from asphyxiation.

Clancy was arraigned from her bed at Brigham and Women’s Hospital on February 7.

“One of the major issues here is the horrific overmedication of medications that caused homicidal thoughts and suicidal thoughts,” Reddington said in February.

“They (Lindsay and her husband Patrick) repeatedly went to doctors and said, ‘Please help us.’

‘This turned her into a zombie… the drugs prescribed were excessive, absolutely excessive.

‘She received regular medical care and treatment. And her husband was very proactive in trying to protect her and help her with the medications the doctors prescribed her.

“They went through hell and never came back,” he said.

In a GoFundMe message to friends and strangers who have raised $1 million for him, he said: “I want to ask all of you that you find it deep within yourself to forgive Lindsay as I have.

“The real Lindsay was generously loving and caring to everyone: me, our children, family, friends and her patients.

‘The fibers of her soul are loving. All I wish for her now is that she can somehow find peace.”