US mother admits killing children, gains public support in psychosis trial

A woman in the US has admitted to killing her three young children, but her defense argues she is not criminally responsible due to postpartum psychosis. Hundreds of supporters have gathered outside the courthouse during her live-streamed trial. The children, aged eight months, two, and five, died in January 2023 after their mother, Lindsay Clancy, asked her husband to run errands. He found her injured after a fall from a window and the children dead in the basement. The case has sparked national attention on maternal mental health. Demonstrators, mostly women, are advocating for better psychiatric care for mothers, citing widespread dismissal of their concerns. Clancy, a former nurse paralyzed from the waist down, has sued her healthcare providers for failing to diagnose her condition. If convicted of murder, she faces life in prison.