Trial opens for US mum who says postpartum issues led her to killing own children

Lindsay Clancy, a Massachusetts mother, is standing trial for the 2023 deaths of her three young children, ages five years, three years, and eight months. While prosecutors claim she deliberately planned the killings by sending her husband on errands to be alone with the children, her defense team argues she was experiencing postpartum psychosis with hallucinations and delusions that made her legally insane at the time. Clancy had sought psychiatric treatment multiple times before the incident, including a hospital stay weeks prior, and she and her husband have filed a civil lawsuit alleging her medical providers failed to properly treat her severe postpartum condition.