Critics Demand Children Removed Over 'Same, Lindsay' Videos as Clancy Faces 3 Child-Killing Charges
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Updated · fashiontimes.co.uk · Sep 8
Critics Demand Children Removed Over 'Same, Lindsay' Videos as Clancy Faces 3 Child-Killing Charges
2 articles · Updated · fashiontimes.co.uk · Sep 8
Summary
Online backlash intensified after mothers posted 'Same, Lindsay' videos expressing empathy with Lindsay Clancy's writings, with some critics calling for participants' children to be taken from them.
The trend features women holding, feeding or rocking their babies while using excerpts from Clancy's diary and court-discussed writings about anxiety, exhaustion and intrusive thoughts.
Supporters say the posts are meant to open discussion of postpartum mental health, but critics see them as inappropriate solidarity with a woman accused of killing her three children.
Clancy, a former Massachusetts nurse, is charged in the January 2023 deaths of Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months; her defense argues postpartum psychosis.
Her trial ended in a mistrial on Sept. 4 after nearly six weeks of testimony and seven days of deliberations, leaving prosecutors to decide whether to retry the case.