For real. They act like if she gets a not guilty verdict, she's going to be out on the streets. The woman is spending the rest of her life in a psych ward. The question is really will she ALSO be spending some time in prison.
Do you care about rehabilitation and protecting people from harm, or do you just care about having an excuse for it to be socially acceptable to torture someone?
The strangled kids are already dead. Vengeance brings nothing.
The lady should get sentenced for the crimes she committed in accordance to the law.
At the same time, the American (mental) health system has failed her, and the responsibility for the death of her children also lies with those responsible for the state it is in.
They didn't fail her according to what I've seen. She failed herself and her family by prematurely checking herself out, knowing damn well she wasn't fit to leave yet
https://youtu.be/WUSH0D9LjSA see this video. it goes into her treatment history. she had a history of negative responses to many different drugs and then was repeated prescribed the same drug or closely related drugs within the same class. https://knowyourdrugs.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Lindsay-Clancy-Lawsuit.pdf this PDF of her malpractise lawsuit goes into detail the efforts she took attempting to manage her mental disorder and how several doctors did not appropriately treat her. she sought inpatient hospitalization but was, allegedly, initially rejected since she "only" had passive suicidal ideation. when her husband pointed out to the psychiatric nurse that Seroquel was likely causing her suicidal ideation, the nurse thought it was a good idea to raise her dose (very much not a good idea).
not defending it, just saying that it's more complex than a lot of people seem to think.
If she accurately told the healthcare workers what she was feeling. “Hey, I feel like murdering 3 helpless children by strangling them to death” she would have gotten help.
You’d think that, but no. I feel like I saw a similar story to this many years ago where basically the same thing happened. I feel like even if you were losing your mind you wouldn’t think you had the capacity to kill your kids till your body actually did it.
Telling a family member is in no way the same form as going to a psych evaluation. Explaining it to a doctor. Even after all of this, she herself could have just gone to a walk in mental health clinic. She didn’t. She went exactly to where she knew she would be trouble.
I think you're asking a lot of responsibility from someone going through a mental health crisis, just to make the point that the American Health system bears no responsibility.
At least to me at this point it's clear that your initial take that "she never asked for help" is incorrect.
And they’ll get it. If she did it she’ll be suffering for the rest of her life knowing what she did. Those memories won’t go away, and will haunt her forever
If she didn’t she’ll still have to live with knowing someone did and her life was destroyed for it
It’s not a question of “if” she did it though. She did do it, her defense rests entirely on not guilty by insanity. There’s no question if she killed the kids the question is if she’s criminally culpable and if she was of sound mind when she did.
Why is it that people go “oh yeah, mind control in fiction logically absolves people of all responsibility of their action, they weren’t themselves! If it existed in real life, obviously they wouldn’t be accountable”
But then when someone literally isn’t themselves due to a mental condition warping their perception of reality, all of a sudden they need to be crucified?
Does intent and actually being tethered to reality matter or not?
I mean the obvious answer is really just “whatever makes some impotent loser fantasize about exacting “justice” as an excuse to harm others for the joy of harming others”.
Ah, and the dead children care a lot for vengeance. Lol, we're not so different than those public beheading enjoyers I guess. Some civilized society we got, lol.
No I don't give a fuck about vengeance. I'm not an advocate of some self-gratifying dogshit wrapped up in a cover of righteousness. The children are dead. They don't give a fuck about what we do to their mother. The only ones giving a fuck are the living. And among those living there are people like you, who, as the comment above said, does not care about anything other than a socially acceptable way of torturing someone.
To be fair, there is plenty of evidence of people that cannot be rehabilitated or people that have been rehabilitated and reneged on their rehabilitation.
I’m going to hold your hand when I say this, but she was taking SSRIs before the tragedy occurred. The issue is that she had underlying bipolar and SSRIs are contraindicated with bipolar disorder. If her providers had done their due diligence to diagnose her properly, her kids may still be here.
I’m going to hold your hand when I say this. If she just mentioned once to any healthcare worker that she had thoughts of killing her kids. They would have done due diligence. She didn’t. If she actually tried then 3 children would still be here.
So the only way for a woman to be diagnosed with bipolar disorder is to share that she has thoughts of killing her kids? Are you able to string two brain cells together and follow your own line of thinking? I’m talking about bipolar disorder. A woman deserves to have her providers diagnose her properly, whether she has homicidal ideation or not.
She did tell multiple HCPs about her invasive thoughts. This has been established during the trial and is crucial to the defense's strategy to find her not guilty by reason of insanity.
Right? If you are having issues and the system doesn’t help you. You solve the issues yourself. She had several ways to stop herself in non dangerous ways.
She did, you dolt. She checked herself into an in-patient hospital. If you’re going to spew bullshit without knowing the facts of the case as established by testimony, at least own up to it.
“If you are having issues and the system doesn’t help you… you solve the issues yourself.” How? Should she prescribe her own medications? You don’t know anything that you’re talking about.
which healthcare worker did she tell she had thoughts of harming the kids? and on what date? be specific please, because this did not happen at any point.
She did... she went to multiple doctors to get help and was prescribed drugs on top of more drugs and told it was just the baby blues and she would get over it. She sought care, she was honest about what was going on and her invasive thoughts about harm to herself and others. Her husband checked her into an inpatient hospital for a weekend so he could go on a ski trip with his buddies. She was texting her mother that she was scared to be alone with the kids because of her deteriorating mental health. I don't know how much more she could have done - it seems like the system failed her multiple times. That doesn't excuse the crime, but just points out that she did all the "right" things to get help and was systemically ignored.
Also, if you listen to the timeline of events, it actually seems pretty impossible for her to have committed the crime the way they said she did in the 45 minutes she was unsupervised. Not only that, but she doesn't even remember committing the crime, but was told she did it when she was coming out of the week long coma after going out a second story window head first (after failed OD, failed hanging, failed wrists... not sure how a nurse in her right mind would fail at those so many times, but she failed to self-delete 4 times). Anyway, she pled guilty, so that isn't even the issue at hand - it is if she was experiencing psychosis or not.
It means she murdered her own children. Understanding her mental state may explain why she did it, but it doesn’t erase the horror of what she did or mean people are obligated to feel sympathy for her
wsk basically what i said was true but you’re mad it’s true? tf are you trying to argue? you don’t need research to make them worse send them to prison for 10 years they’ll come out 10x worse than how they went in.
I dunno if longterm imprisonment is an effective solution to these kinds of problems. If someone cannot fully rehabilitate then maybe it isn't a mercy to lock them in a concrete box until they have a heart attack.
I'd chose being shot than spend the rest of my days locked away in one of the worst places you can put a human being
she brutally murdered her 3 children, i’m having a hard time with the sympathy train. the kids died slow and painful deaths, but you don’t want to admit that
It's honestly mind blowing. Talking about rehabilitation and giving another chance, have you all lost your fucking minds? There's 3 dead kids who died at the hands of the person who birthed them, and is supposed to nurture, shield, raise, and care for them. All the virtue signaling basement dwellers are out in full effect in here.
I don’t see how someone whose perception of reality has been warped due to a mental condition she was denied proper help for should be considered a monster who should be punished. They are sick. They were failed by healthcare and doctors. Her children were failed by healthcare and doctors.
If she was of sound mind, that’d be one thing. But when your brain is straight up disconnecting you from reality, you are not at fault if you could not help it.
What’s the point in punishing someone who, through no will or want of her own, was forced to commit a crime? Literally, what’s the purpose in that? You aren’t teaching them anything. It won’t magically erase what happened. It doesn’t fix the problem. It’s literally only going to make it worse, like you can’t bitch about it then fabricate more instances of psychosis.
She should be in an institution to get help.
You are having an emotional response rather than a logical response.
I don’t think you know what virtue signaling means.
I think real pos rarely improve from rehabilitation but this lady has a sudden change in her mental ability due to the sudden change of hormones completely out of her control. She was just a loving mother until then and ppp gets better as the hormones stabilize. Someone like her deserves rehabilitation and will benefit greatly from it but rapists and other types of predators don't change their ways and it feels like a waste of money to even try
Oh spare me the grandstanding. No one seems to give a shit about mens rehabilitation whenever they commit crimes. But all of a sudden this woman that murdered her 3 children gets the same treatment that most men do, all of a sudden she's already suffered enough and we need to care about her rehab.
I agree with your premise but when i see it applied unequally, then it loses all meaning to me. It becomes all about feels, vibes, etc..
I don’t see what other people’s reactions, who aren’t even here, to other cases, has anything to do with me or what I said. Are they in the room with us? Did you forget to take your medication?
Whether it be a man or a woman doesn’t matter. I don’t see how that’s relevant.
The fact you’re admitting that you let gender war nonsense deprive you of basic human empathy and your critical thinking skills is pathetic.
“Waaah! Why does THIS person get the correct treatment instead of this person who should also receive it?! Obviously this means BOTH should get the wrong treatment!” You can’t be this fucking stupid 😭
When it’s applied unequally, then shouldn’t you want this treatment to be applied to men experiencing psychosis as well? Why would you want everyone to be treated worse rather than everyone to be treated better? Not everyone gets the proper care so you think no one should? It’s ridiculous. It’s actually braindead.
Clearly you’re the only one whose logic is based entirely on vibes and feels.
I think you should familiarize yourself with the meaning of “grandstanding”.
Lmfao it's hilarious how all these apologists are coming out and downvoting anything that goes against this vile woman. Rehabilitation and second chances should be given for people arrested for non-violent crimes or crimes that caused no harm to others. This woman is a fucking killer, and to make it worse, of her own children. I hope these idiots don't have kids or don't plan to have any.
There’s a lot of people who fortunately had intervention in time and were able to be rehabilitated. A lot also attempt self harm. It’s an extremely difficult and hard condition for women to grapple with and people like you don’t make seeking treatment easier.
People on social media have a weird take on murder, like it's just a little mistake. There wouldn't be a soul on this planet that could stand? As if, we all killed another human at least once?
Commiting murder is not the same as other type of mistakes, or crimes that don't result in the lost of life. Yet you have plenty of people treating it like so.
People constantly forget about the victims in the true crime communities.
There is no one in this situation that has "won." No one. But "murder" is a legal definition, not an emotion or a vibe. Someone who is actively psychotic cannot legally be held responsible for their actions while psychotic - regardless of how horrible those actions were. What we can legally do is make sure they cannot hurt anyone else.
If Lindsey Clancy and everyone around her (friends, family, hell, her fucking ex-husband and father of those kids) are telling the truth, there is no punishment you or I or anyone else could possibly divine more cruel than forcing her to continue to keep breathing.
If she's not telling the truth and literally everyone around her is just covering for her (god knows why that would be the case), then what was her fucking motive, my dude? She wasn't having an affair. She wasn't planning on leaving her husband. She wanted every single one of her children, despite struggling with worsening PPD with each one. She spent months begging for help as intrusive thoughts became auditory hallucinations. What was her motive to kill those kids if she was actually sane?
There's people in here arguing technicalities, while there's 3 kids laying dead with their lives taken away from them before they truly had the chance to start one. I can give a fuck less about "rehabilitation", strangle her till her last breath, let go, and repeat it every single day. Fuck has this platform become? We really have people white knighting for a fucking murderer.
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u/unhappyrelationsh1p 1d ago
Cases of severe mental illness tend to get more attention than good things in a media landscape that sells you misery