NYTIMES (Ellen Barry) - Mothers’ Intrusive Thoughts Are Mostly Benign. Lindsay Clancy’s Case Is an Exception.
Experts say that after childbirth, intrusive thoughts are common and mostly benign. Lindsay Clancy’s story provides a disturbing exception.
Experts say that after childbirth, intrusive thoughts are common and mostly benign. Lindsay Clancy’s story provides a disturbing exception.
By Noel S. Williams If the misguided jurors really wanted to make it better for women, then a conviction would have done that.
Photo Credit:4th Earl of Chesterfield Birmingham Museums Trust, via Picryl // public domain By Selwyn Duke The specter of Lindsay Clancy's trial defenders is a reminder that harridans, termagants, and gorgons are nothing new.
The Lindsay Clancy case raises troubling questions about insanity defenses, postpartum psychosis, and whether society is failing to protect children from mothers who kill them. Source
The Clancy jurors confused compassion with justice, exposing a broader cultural collapse in which emotion and power have replaced objective moral reasoning. Source
Clancy is facing murder charges in the deaths of her three young children, Cora, Dawson and Callan.
Lindsey Clancy's defense attorney Kevin Reddington said his client knows her ex-husband's life "has been turned upside down into a nightmare he doesn't deserve."
By Patricia McCarthy Watching the videos of the three jurors express their anger at the lone juror who refused to vote not guilty is stupefying!
The majority badgered and bullied the holdout juror who didn't 'trust the experts' on the 'science' of postpartum psychosis. Sound familiar?
The furor over the Clancy case shows that Americans have little idea what 'insanity,' 'psychosis,' and other terms mean in the courtroom.