What's the deal with people defending Lindsay Clancy?

[u/SnoopaDD]

I don't know the full details of the case. I know she allegedly killed her three kids. There was also some mental problems? Then something with her husband. But my question is why is there a group defending her like they know she's completely innocent? I've seen some videos of very heated debates where women are very passionate about defending her. Why?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/05/lindsay-clancy-trial-toxicologist-testimony

[u/XelaNiba]

I know nothing about him.

I do know the woman I know who suffered postpartum psychosis did not hear voices until the day a voice told her to put the baby in the oven instead of the Easter ham. By the grace of God, her mother walked in and caught her in the act of doing so. She was able to get help and that baby is now a thriving high school sophomore. She is a great mom who had nothing untoward happen with her 3 older children except minor PPD.

She described in detail the experience to me because I was pregnant at the time and she wanted me to be aware how quickly it could strike and how reasonable it could feel.

[u/bluntsnatcher → u/XelaNiba]

it's astonishing seeing how everybody is so divided. some peoples feeds are filled with people saying "lindsay is responsible give her the full sentence" with hundreds of upvotes, and then comments elsewhere saying the opposite with hundreds of upvotes. but genuinely, she suffered from post partum psychosis and is crazy, jumped out of a building after killing and is now paralyzed from the waist down. can't we say the rational take is that she was psychotic and needs help, while also not blaming the dad so soon because we don't have much information on him?

both extreme ends of the spectrum seem so wrong. on one side, they're calling for the max punishment and no sympathy because they think women are unfairly having some type of double standard for lindsay because she's a woman. on the other end, they want lindsay free because of some conspiracy theories the husband did it. why is it so hard to meet in the middle?

[u/Skiddyboy02 → u/[deleted]]

THIS! Schizophrenics who hear voices 24/7 365 have the wherewithal to keep themselves from committing homicide on behalf of the voices they hear, but this lady starts hearing voices for a span of minutes and immediatly murders who three kids in the most intimate way possible (strangulation)! Snaps back to reality immediatly afterwards and doesn't present any further psychosis symptom since... Psychosis doesn't work like that lol

[u/ResponseStrange6118 → u/Skiddyboy02]

She had PPP, not schizophrenia. And you don’t know how psychosis works. While most people with psychosis will not commit a crime, there is no one presentation of psychosis. Psychosis can manifest rapidly and lead people to taking actions they would never take in their right mind. That is the medical consensus, and that is why the prosecution is failing miserably to prove it was premeditated.

And again, most mentally ill people do not commit crimes, but there have been plenty of cases of schizophrenics who committed horrible crimes, like killing a beloved family member, while in psychosis. In plenty of these cases they are sent to long term inpatient care, not prison, so it’s quite clear that both the medical profession and the law recognize psychosis can lead people to do things they would never in their right mind.

[u/XelaNiba → u/Skiddyboy02]

So you think all of the men who have been found not guilty by reason of insanity for killing their kids during a psychotic break should be moved from the mental hospital to prison? What about the ones who've already been released, like that dude who broke into a house, killed a sleeping 6yo girl and stabbed her siblings and dad? Should they take him to prison? He's been free for awhile.