The Massachusetts mother is facing three counts of murder in the killings of her children Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and Callan, 8 months.
Lindsay Clancy was suffering from a “command hallucination” at the time she killed her children, a forensic psychiatrist told the jury in her trial.
“It was a matter where she was just following the command rather than being able to make any decision to do it or not.
“My opinion is that Ms Clancy was, due to her mental disease, unable to conform her conduct to the requirements of the law on the day that she took the lives of her children,” Resnick told jurors. Resnick said that on the day Lindsay killed her children, she experienced “not only a command hallucination” but also “a delusion of influence,” per the BBC. “In her mind, she believed that she would be doing her children a favour by having them go to heaven with her rather than remain on earth without her doing the mothering,” Resnick testified.
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.
