Jurors in Plymouth Superior Court returned Friday morning to continue weighing whether Lindsay Clancy can be held criminally responsible for the deaths of her three young children at the family's Duxbury home in January 2023. They began deliberating Thursday afternoon without reaching a decision. No verdict had been returned as of the most recent court update.
For readers, the case has become the most visible public conversation about postpartum psychosis in years, and clinicians who treat the condition say that visibility carries a risk. If the only message the public absorbs is that postpartum psychosis produces violence, the mothers who most need care are the ones least likely to ask for it.
