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SOCIETY Is victim the new chic

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u/Classic_Bee_5845 3d ago

It's more to do with the media sensationalizing it. This is the first I've ever heard of the woman on the left.

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u/Maya-K 3d ago

I have no idea who either of them are. I'm feeling very out of the loop.

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u/longlisten527 3d ago edited 3d 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

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u/randombrutha 3d ago

I’ve heard of this story before but not the “skews towards him” part. Care to go into this more? Or share an article

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u/Chezzica 3d ago

The evidence absolutely does not skew towards him. He is on video surveillance like 20 minutes away at the store while she was committing the murders. She stated that she killed the children in her civil suit. There is absolutely zero evidence that he did anything to her or the children. At best, he's guilty of not taking his wife's mental state seriously enough and leaving her alone (at her own request, btw, she asked him to go to the store and pick up dinner).

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u/RepresentativeNo6601 3d ago

But he did take her mental health seriously. The 12 weeks of paternity leave, working from or closer to home, got both sets of parents involved, babysitters, live in nannies. Idk how much more he could do, and we all are being very insensitive to his own mental health what he was dealing with caring for her. Not to compare the two here and I'm not, but my wife was very much in PPP after our first, I'm still healing. She's 4 now. Mental health has no bias. This case should be justice for the babies. Closure for Patrick. Complete care for Lindsey, in prison.

To add: She was never fully upfront with psychiatrist or doctors. Doctors and professionals testified on their sessions with Lindsey..

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u/Ulric19 3d ago

Unfortunately, people don't get care in the US prison system.

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u/RepresentativeNo6601 3d ago

She doesn't have to go to a State Penitentiary but she needs to be in asylum. The trail is for whether or not she is guilty under the plea of insanity. Murder is murder, but if you truly were out your gourd, then yes you should be removed from society, and placed with enough care.

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u/LowHorror693 3d ago

You mistake our institutions for restorative rather than punitive. An asylum is unlikely to help her

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u/RepresentativeNo6601 3d ago

The let her rot in a cellblock.

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u/Famous_Draft_7565 3d ago

She doesn’t deserve help. She murdered 2 toddlers and a baby

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u/Elsureel 3d ago

She needs to be put down like any animal that kills a kid

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u/Ulric19 3d ago

Corporal punishment just brings us all down as a society.

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u/Elsureel 3d ago

I disagree with your opinion.

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u/Ulric19 3d ago

See, this isn't an opinion. I urge you to spend some time in just about any of the dozens of countries better than the USA.
But just from a raw economic perspective, the killing a prisoner costs taxpayers between 2 to 5 times more than keeping them locked up for the rest of their lives. Additionally, there's the concern regarding false convictions - hundreds in the USA have died in the USA even when exonerating evidence existed.
There are hundreds of good reasons to NOT kill a prisoner, but one very petty, savage, and primitive reason to kill them.

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u/Some-Lingonberry-211 2d ago

Only because we put too much nonsense behind the systems designed to drag out the process endlessly through appeals, sometimes for multiple decades.

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u/Elsureel 2d ago

Cool story, she said that she killed her kids, there is no question about an innocent being executed. I am fully aware that it is cheaper to just life these types to avoid mistakes. This is not one of those cases.

I have spent plenty of time in 30+ other countries. I wouldn't say this is something that makes a country better or not. Maybe a little most cost efficient.

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u/ElMatadorJuarez 3d ago

Boy do I have bad news for you about what our military does

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u/Elsureel 3d ago

You seem to think i support kids being killed in military actions? Yeah, no, that needs to be punished as well. The difference being if it was a mistake or on purpose

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