The Massachusetts mother is facing three counts of murder in the killings of her children Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and Callan, 8 months. Several social media users have been claiming that their partners broke up with them after they expressed their support for Lindsay Clancy .
Another screenshot doing the rounds on X shows a Lindsay supporter asking her partner why he would break up with her over an opinion. Support has been pouring in for Lindsay, with a GoFundMe started for her family rapidly raising funds. The fundraiser also features several positive messages people have shared for Lindsay.
Because his fiancée said she supported Lindsay, one X user has claimed that their brother called off his wedding.
“My brother whom gets married in 2 weeks sent the entire family + hers a group chat saying he is calling off the wedding because his fiancé said she supported Lindsay Clancy on Friday,” the post reads. The man replies saying that her opinion “showed me a fundamental difference in our values” and that what she said “created a doubt in me that I can’t ignore or gamble my future children on.
Because she was in the midst of a psychotic episode that stemmed from postpartum mental illness, her defense attorneys, on the other hand, argued that she is not criminally responsible.
Lindsay, 35, “acted intentionally, rationally and swiftly” when she fatally strangled her three children at their Duxbury home on January 24, 2023, according to prosecutors.
“My bf of 4 years first introduced the case to me about a week ago, asking me my opinion of it. I am incredibly busy, so have not been online enough to even have heard of it. A few days later, he asks again. I tell him, again, I don’t have enough information to form a well-informed opinion. But this time, I offered to hop on the phone and have him tell me the facts as he understands them and that I will formulate a limited opinion based on those facts. That’s what we did, and I gave my opinion that I believe if she is found to have had a mental/psychological impairment, that she should be placed in an institution to receive the help she needs for however long is normal for mentally incapacitated people that commit crimes. She added, “A week later, he texts me asking for clarification in my stance. Recently, a live television debate over the Clancy case turned heated when Democrat strategist and former Obama adviser Laurie Watkins became emotional and stormed off after being confronted over the growing movement of women supporting Lindsay. Lindsay has pleaded not guilty to the murder charges. If convicted of murder, she faces life in prison without parole.
In case she is found not guilty due to a lack of criminal responsibility, she would be committed to a state mental health facility.
I told him as much. He said he needed to think about that,” wrote the woman. I reiterated what I said. He then went on to say he needs to “mull over” whether he wants to have kids with “someone like me”. Meanwhile, hundreds of women wore pink and lined the street outside Plymouth County Courthouse carrying signs that read “She Needed Help”.
