On Sunday night, September 20, he told CBS’ 60 Minutes that he believes he did everything he could to protect his children, but admitted that he did not know how to manage his ex-wife’s postpartum illness. Lindsay Clancy’s ex-husband, Patrick Clancy, spoke out for the first time since a mistrial was declared in the case.
Patrick took the stand on the first two days of the trial and testified about finding his kids fatally injured and Lindsay’s struggles with mental health. He was recognized as a grieving father and a key prosecution witness.
Patrick also responded to conspiracy theories that he was responsible for his children’s deaths. It’s painful to see, and it makes it difficult to be in public, and it’s possible that some of those people, after seeing lie after lie after lie, they start to believe it. That’s what we’re left with. The judge in Lindsay’s trial declared a mistrial after the jury could not reach a unanimous verdict and remained deadlocked after a week of deliberations. Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial after the jury returned without a verdict for the third time.
Jurors in Plymouth state court spent over 38 hours in deliberations over the charges against Lindsay. The 12-person jury was made up of nine women and three men, and was split 11 to one, per the notes given to the court, The Guardian reported.
Patrick said he struggled with suicidal thoughts after his children’s deaths. “There was a time when I didn’t think I would live to see my 35th birthday, and I was completely fine with it,” he said in the interview. “It’s deeply harmful to the legacy of my children; it is a huge distraction from what really matters here, which is perinatal mental health, and it’s done real harm to real people, myself included, but also others,” he said, adding, “The stuff that’s out there online.
