Lindsay Clancy Returns to Tewksbury Hospital After 3-Child Murder Case Mistrial
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Updated · The New York Times · Sep 4
Lindsay Clancy Returns to Tewksbury Hospital After 3-Child Murder Case Mistrial
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Sep 4
Summary
Lindsay Clancy will be sent back to Tewksbury Hospital, the state-run psychiatric facility where she was held during trial, after a Massachusetts judge declared a mistrial Friday.
Her defense centered on postpartum psychosis in the months before she killed her three children, and lawyers said hospitalization would likely have continued even if she had been acquitted.
Psychiatrists said Clancy could eventually be moved to a high-security forensic psychiatric hospital for longer-term treatment, though postpartum psychosis often improves within a year.
That longer care would most likely focus on ongoing risks such as suicidal thoughts and a possible bipolar disorder diagnosis, while forensic treatment aims to stabilize patients and prepare them to re-enter society.