300 Lindsay Clancy Supporters Rally at Courthouse as Trial Spotlights 1-in-1,000 Postpartum Psychosis
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Updated · The Associated Press · Aug 20
300 Lindsay Clancy Supporters Rally at Courthouse as Trial Spotlights 1-in-1,000 Postpartum Psychosis
3 articles · Updated · The Associated Press · Aug 20
Summary
About 300 supporters, mostly women in pink, gathered outside the Plymouth courthouse Thursday in the largest show of backing since Lindsay Clancy’s nearly monthlong trial began.
Supporters said the rally aimed to highlight how women’s mental health concerns are dismissed, while Clancy’s defense argues she was suffering postpartum psychosis and should not be held criminally responsible.
Clancy, 36, has pleaded not guilty in the Jan. 24, 2023 killings of her three children, ages 8 months to 5 years; prosecutors say she planned the deaths and sent her husband out to buy medicine and dinner.
The livestreamed case has widened attention on postpartum psychosis, a rare condition researchers estimate affects 1 to 2 per 1,000 women after childbirth.