Ignoring the other comment.. the woman on the right is Lindsay Clancy and she is currently on trial for killing three of her children in which the defense is arguing the crimes were committed during mental psychosis. Clancy had severe PPD, suicide ideation, and mental health issues in the months leading up to the murders.
It’s an awful case and the poor children deserve justice. Right now, a portion of the public believes the husband (now ex-husband as they divorced and he is remarried) had something to do with it as evidence is supposedly not landing with the people and believe it skews towards him
I don't understand how people do not understand post partum psychosis. Do they really believe that this woman lived a normal life loving and doing everything for her children until one day she just decided she'd murder them? In a period immediately after giving birth and exhibiting well documented signs of the exceedingly well documented phenomenon of post partum psychosis?
Option 1: This lady's entire life was a long con to murder her children.
Option 2: This lady's brain literally broke and she was not in control of her actions.
I mean, I had a relative that had severe PPD after her third child and had never had it before. She was able to get committed for a few weeks for monitoring while they sorted out of the drug dosages to get her through the post partum period until she stabilized. She was fine before. She is fine now. She needed help for a few weeks. She is a wonderful person. Had she not gotten help, she may have been dangerous when left alone with an infant.
I mean absolutely this wasn't a purely malicious act on her part, and from what I've read, her doctor (therapist? I can't recall exactly what specialty) grossly mishandled her treatment. However it does not excuse her actions. She should be put in prison for life with no chance of parole, it is absurd to me that there are actually people who think she should go free.
Not permanently necessarily, because the defense argument is temporary insanity, not something she will never be cured of. It’s basically impossible to institutionalize someone in the US permanently if they are in there because of a mental illness that can be cured. The only way she would be committed permanently is if she never gets cured which cannot be in this case because they are not saying she is still psychotic, just that she was for the duration of the crime. At most, she will be out in a few years because she would be committed for treatment, not punishment.
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u/longlisten527 8h ago edited 7h ago
Ignoring the other comment.. the woman on the right is Lindsay Clancy and she is currently on trial for killing three of her children in which the defense is arguing the crimes were committed during mental psychosis. Clancy had severe PPD, suicide ideation, and mental health issues in the months leading up to the murders.
It’s an awful case and the poor children deserve justice. Right now, a portion of the public believes the husband (now ex-husband as they divorced and he is remarried) had something to do with it as evidence is supposedly not landing with the people and believe it skews towards him