Clancy trial examines postpartum psychosis defense in deaths of three children

Three children were killed; the case involves a mother's mental health crisis resulting in deaths of her offspring.

In a Massachusetts courtroom, Lindsay Clancy faces charges in the deaths of her three children, with her defense resting on whether postpartum psychosis — a rare but documented break from reality that can follow childbirth — so thoroughly severed her from rational judgment that criminal intent itself becomes medically incoherent. The case arrives at a fault line the law has long avoided: the point where neurology and morality cease to speak the same language. Whatever the verdict, three children are gone, and the trial asks a civilization to decide what justice means when the mind that acted w

Clancy trial examines postpartum psychosis defense in deaths of three children

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