Paralysed mother pleads NOT GUILTY to killing her three children

Jennifer Smith - DailyMail - 08/02
A Massachusetts mother-of-three has pled not guilty to murder charges in a Zoom court appearance from her Boston hospital bed on Tuesday for the strangling of her three young kids. 

A Massachusetts mother who strangled her three children and tried to kill herself has pleaded not guilty during a court appearance held over Zoom as she lay paralyzed in her Boston hospital bed.

Lindsay Clancy, 32, has been charged with three counts of premeditated murder for strangling her three kids on January 29 at the family home in Duxbury, 35 miles southeast of Boston.

Clancy's attorneys say she was severely depressed, suffering with post-partum depression and even psychosis, caused by a cocktail of prescription drugs that turned her into a 'shell' of herself and robbed her of her personality and ability to feel emotions. 

They say Lindsay told her husband - who has forgiven her - she heard a 'man's voice' telling her to kill the children and then herself because it was her 'last choice'. 

Prosecutors today launched a merciless prosecution, claiming she was well aware of what she was doing and that she even planned it out.  

Clancy remains in the hospital after trying to take her own life; she slit her wrists and jumped from a top floor window of her home after strangling her kids, Cora, five, Dawson, three, and Callan, eight months. She has been paralyzed as a result of the jump

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