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The husband of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother accused of killing her three young children, is expected to testify on her behalf at her upcoming trial.
Clancy, a 35-year-old former nurse, is slated to go on trial this week in the murder case of her three young children: Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months. Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday morning in Plymouth Superior Court.
Patrick Clancy is one of the more than 200 people who could be called to testify. Patrick, along with his wife Lindsay, have maintained that the doctors who treated her misdiagnosed and overmedicated her, causing her to hallucinate voices telling her to kill her kids.
The allegations are central to lawsuits claiming that medical professionals failed to diagnose her escalating postpartum psychosis before the deadly tragedy.
In an amended complaint filed in Norfolk Superior Court, Lindsay Clancy alleges a network of psychiatric providers misdiagnosed her, failed to properly treat what she says was bipolar disorder with postpartum onset and prescribed a changing regimen of medications that allegedly worsened her condition before the Jan. 24, 2023, deaths of her children.
The complaint accuses the defendants of medical malpractice and negligence, alleging they failed to recognize that Clancys reported “intrusive thoughts” were actually auditory hallucinations that made her a danger to herself and her children.
“Lindsay Clancy did everything a mother in her situation could do,” the lawsuit says, alleging she sought treatment, went to emergency rooms, contacted crisis services, admitted herself to hospitals and repeatedly reported her worsening symptoms.
The filing offers a medical-failure narrative of the months before the killings, portraying Clancy, a registered nurse who worked in labor and delivery at Massachusetts General Hospital, as a woman unraveling.
According to the complaint, Clancy began showing signs of hypomania soon after giving birth to Callan in May 2022.
By about 12 weeks postpartum, the filing says, Clancys condition shifted into severe anxiety, depression, exhaustion and insomnia. She was allegedly sleeping only a few hours a night and struggling with basic daily activities.
The lawsuit says Clancy first sought psychiatric care in September 2022 and was prescribed Zoloft. After the dose was increased, she allegedly went 48 hours without sleep, developed racing thoughts and suffered worsening anxiety.
The lawsuit alleges that these symptoms should have triggered concern for antidepressant-induced activation and possible bipolar disorder. Instead, the suit alleges, Clancy was moved through a <a href="https://foxnews.com/category/health/healthy-living/medications" rel="noopen
