The Duxbury mother accused of strangling her three kids with train bands instructed her panicked husband the children have been within the basement the place he “begged them to breathe” after discovering their our bodies, a prosecutor stated.
“She killed the kids,” husband Patrick Clancy cried out to first responders the night of Jan. 24, Plymouth Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague added Tuesday.
The prosecutor requested that the mother, Lindsay Clancy, be held with out bail — including that quickly after the 32-year-old awoke on the hospital she wrote on a whiteboard: “Do I need an attorney?”
Sprague additionally stated Lindsay Clancy used mapping software program to trace how lengthy it might take her husband to run errands she despatched him on that night — together with a visit to a close-by CVS for stool softener for youths and take-out dinner.
That dinner, the prosecutor added, was referred to as in by Lindsay Clancy to ThreeV Restaurant in close by Plymouth, the place she ordered a Mediterranean energy bowl for her, scallop and pork-belly risotto for him.
He arrived on the CVS at 5:32 p.m. and ThreeV at 5:54 p.m. and headed again house “within a minute” with the meals arriving simply after 6 o’clock, Sprague stated.
“When he arrived home,” the ADA added, “the first thing he noticed was the silence.”
A bed room door was locked; there was blood on the ground upstairs; after which Patrick Clancy discovered his spouse on the bottom exterior, her cuts not bleeding.
“What did you do?” he requested her, Sprague stated.
“I tried to kill myself and jumped out the window,” the spouse responded.
“Where are the kids?” he added.
“In the basement,” the mother stated.
“Guys?” the dad referred to as out as he went looking for his kids, Sprague added.
“He could then be heard screaming in agony,” Sprague stated, and “begged them to breathe” as he pulled the bands from their necks. And when first responders arrived and met him within the basement, he yelled out to them “She killed the kids!”
The older two kids, Cora, 5, and Dawson, 3, could be pronounced useless at space hospitals that night time whereas 7-month-old Callan would maintain on till that Friday, Jan. 27, when he, too, was pronounced useless at Boston Children’s Hospital.
They have been killed, Sprague stated, by ligature strangulation, wherein Lindsay Clancy would have needed to maintain the ligature in place for as much as 5 minutes per baby to trigger dying.
“Therefore she had to strangle each of them to unconsciousness and then make sure the bands were squeezing their little necks for several minutes,” Sprague stated. “She could have changed her mind at any point during that time and removed those bands from their necks and she did not.”
Sprague added Lindsay Clancy “killed the kids because she heard a voice and had ‘a moment of psychosis.’” When her husband requested “what voices” Sprague stated she responded that she “heard a man’s voice telling her to kill the kids and kill herself because it was her last chance.”
Lindsay Clancy appeared for her Plymouth District Court listening to Tuesday over Zoom from her hospital mattress in Boston to be arraigned on two counts of juvenile homicide and three counts every of strangulation or suffocation and assault and battery with a harmful weapon.
Defense legal professional Kevin Reddington stated his shopper is a “paraplegic” — paralyzed from the waist down — who “can’t walk” after leaping out a second-floor window that night time and who was pumped full of medication as she tried to deal with postpartum issues after the delivery of her third baby.
Reddington added the one-time labor nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital now wants somebody along with her “24/7” out of “concern she will commit suicide.”
Reddington requested for her to be despatched to Spaulding Rehab with a GPS monitor if the courtroom orders extra safeguards. The prosecution sought an alternate, Shattuck Hospital in Jamaica Plain.
At that, Reddington groaned and threw up his arms calling the Shattuck “dismal and dank … like something out of Iran.”
Judge John Canavan ordered that Clancy be held on the unnamed hospital she’s at now and can “likely” be despatched to Spaulding Rehab in Charlestown as soon as she is cleared by her docs to take action. But, he added, she must hold receiving psychological well being care and is due again in courtroom May 2 — a date that may in all probability be moot as soon as the case is bumped as much as superior courtroom.
Reddington pressured that Lindsay Clancy had been over-prescribed meds within the run-up to the aweful night time.
From simply October till January, Reddington stated, Clancy had been prescribed varied mixtures of medication together with the antidepressants Prozac, Remeron, amitriptyline and Trazodone; Seroquel, which the National Alliance on Mental Illness stated treats schizophrenia and is an atypical antispychotic; and the anti-anxiety medicine Ativan and benzodiazepines. He additionally stated that she was on Valium in some unspecified time in the future and had been taking Benadryl.
“Our society fails miserably in treating women with postpartum depression, or even postpartum psychosis,” he stated. “It’s medicate, medicate, medicate. Throw the pills at you and then see how it works. If it doesn’t work, then increase the dose or decrease the dose. Then end up trying another combination of medications.”
He stated that holding her with out bail is an “inhumane order” for a lady in her situation.
“She was so bad she turned herself in … to the McLean Hospital,” Reddington added. “This is really a tragedy, this case.”
A GoFundMe drive organized to assist Patrick Clancy “pay for medical bills, funeral services, and legal help” within the wake of the tragedy has sailed previous its aim of $1 million to achieve $1,041,610 by 10:06 a.m. Tuesday.
Joe Dwinell contributed to this report.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”