Lindsay Clancy admits killing her three children, cites mental illness

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Lindsay Clancy has admitted to killing her three young children in January 2023, with her defense arguing she cannot be held criminally responsible due to mental illness. The children, aged eight months, two years, and five years, were found dead in the basement after Clancy jumped from a second-story window. She had sought help for anxiety and depression months earlier, but her defense claims medical negligence worsened her condition. Clancy, now paralyzed from the waist down, has sued her healthcare providers alongside her ex-husband. If convicted of murder, she faces life in prison; if acquitted, she would be committed to a psychiatric facility.


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