Lindsay Clancy’s husband could testify for her at trial over deaths of their three children

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The hubby of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts parent accused of sidesplitting her 3 young children, is expected to attest connected her behalf astatine her upcoming trial.

Clancy, a 35-year-old erstwhile nurse, is slated to spell connected proceedings this week successful the execution lawsuit of her 3 young children: Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months. Jury enactment is scheduled to statesman Monday greeting successful Plymouth Superior Court.

Patrick Clancy is 1 of the much than 200 radical who could beryllium called to testify. Patrick, on with his woman Lindsay, person maintained that the doctors who treated her misdiagnosed and overmedicated her, causing her to hallucinate voices telling her to termination her kids.

The allegations are cardinal to lawsuits claiming that aesculapian professionals failed to diagnose her escalating postpartum psychosis earlier the deadly tragedy.

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Lindsay Clancy, charged with the execution of her 3 children successful Duxbury successful 2023, appears successful Plymouth Superior Court connected Friday, Feb. 20, 2026. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

In an amended ailment filed successful Norfolk Superior Court, Lindsay Clancy alleges a web of psychiatric providers misdiagnosed her, failed to decently dainty what she says was bipolar upset with postpartum onset and prescribed a changing regimen of medications that allegedly worsened her information earlier the Jan. 24, 2023, deaths of her children.

The ailment accuses the defendants of aesculapian malpractice and negligence, alleging they failed to admit that Clancy’s reported "intrusive thoughts" were really auditory hallucinations that made her a information to herself and her children.

"Lindsay Clancy did everything a parent successful her concern could do," the suit says, alleging she sought treatment, went to exigency rooms, contacted situation services, admitted herself to hospitals and repeatedly reported her worsening symptoms.

The filing offers a medical-failure communicative of the months earlier the killings, portraying Clancy, a registered caregiver who worked successful labour and transportation astatine Massachusetts General Hospital, arsenic a pistillate unraveling.

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Lindsay Clancy with 2 of their 3 children successful this undated photo (Lindsay Marie Clancy/ Facebook)

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According to the complaint, Clancy began showing signs of hypomania soon aft giving commencement to Callan successful May 2022.

By astir 12 weeks postpartum, the filing says, Clancy’s information shifted into terrible anxiety, depression, exhaustion and insomnia. She was allegedly sleeping lone a fewer hours a nighttime and struggling with basal regular activities.

The suit says Clancy archetypal sought psychiatric attraction successful September 2022 and was prescribed Zoloft. After the dose was increased, she allegedly went 48 hours without sleep, developed racing thoughts and suffered worsening anxiety.

The suit alleges that these symptoms should person triggered interest for antidepressant-induced activation and imaginable bipolar disorder. Instead, the suit alleges, Clancy was moved done a bid of medications, including Prozac, Ambien, Remeron, Klonopin, Seroquel, Trazodone, Valium and Amitriptyline, without due coordination among her providers.

The ailment claims the providers failed to get a implicit psychiatric history, failed to pass with 1 different and failed to admit that antidepressants appeared to beryllium worsening her symptoms.

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Lindsay Clancy's 3 children, 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 7-month-old Callan, who died. (Lindsay Marie Clancy facebook)

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In precocious November 2022, aft taking Remeron, Clancy allegedly became dissociated, disoriented and unsure what was real, according to the filing.

Days later, aft starting Seroquel, she allegedly developed suicidal ideation and began proceeding a dependable telling her she would not beryllium the aforesaid and wanted to die.

Her husband, Patrick, allegedly contacted caregiver practitioner Rebecca Jollotta's bureau connected Dec. 15 to study that his woman had suffered a "devastating week" and was proceeding voices each day, the ailment says.

The filing besides alleges Lindsay Clancy told household members she had thoughts of harming the children. At the aforesaid time, she allegedly believed radical could perceive her thoughts and feared she would beryllium locked successful a infirmary and suffer her children.

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Lindsay and Patrick Clancy with 2 of their 3 children successful this undated photo (Lindsay Marie Clancy/ Facebook)

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Clancy went to Massachusetts General Hospital connected Dec. 20, past entered a partial hospitalization programme astatine Women & Infants Hospital successful Rhode Island, the suit says.

The ailment alleges Dr. Zobeida Diaz concluded Clancy did not person postpartum slump and rejected bipolar upset contempt terrible slump and anxiousness scores.

Days later, Clancy admitted herself to McLean Hospital connected New Year’s Eve. The ailment says she was placed connected a locked portion with termination checks but did not spot a doc until Jan. 3 due to the fact that of the vacation weekend. She was discharged Jan. 5 aft a five-day stay.

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Back successful outpatient care, the suit says, Clancy continued to deteriorate.

On Jan. 16, she allegedly reported hallucinations saying, "You should harm the children" and "You should termination yourself." Tufts past prescribed Amitriptyline, different antidepressant, according to the complaint.

On Jan. 23, the suit says, Dr. Jennifer Tufts accrued the Amitriptyline dose. That night, Clancy allegedly did not sleep.

The adjacent day, the ailment alleges, Clancy was severely depressed and experiencing nonstop suicidal hallucinations. After her hubby near to prime up takeout, a commanding dependable allegedly told her it was her "last chance" and ordered her to termination the children truthful she could termination herself.

The suit claims Clancy past entered a dissociative, dream-like authorities earlier strangling the children and trying to termination herself by taking medications, cutting her wrists and neck, and jumping from a second-floor window.

Cora and Dawson died that day. Callan died 3 days later. Clancy has pleaded not blameworthy successful the transgression case.

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Lindsay Clancy is wheeled into the Plymouth Superior Court connected Friday, Feb. 20, 2026. Clancy became paraplegic erstwhile she harmed herself and jumped retired of a second-story model astatine her location aft the deaths of her 3 children. She is charged with execution successful the children's deaths. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

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Clancy is suing Tufts, Diaz, Jollotta, Dr. Alia Goodheart, Aster Mental Health, South Shore Health System, McLean Hospital and Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island.

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The suit seeks damages for Clancy’s carnal injuries, intelligence trauma, aesculapian expenses, mislaid wages, symptom and suffering, imperishable disablement and nonaccomplishment of consortium with her hubby and children.

The proceedings volition statesman with assemblage enactment connected Monday, July 20 astatine 9 a.m.

Fox News Digital has reached retired to Clancy's attorney, Rosemary Curran Scapicchio, for comment.

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