Duxbury's Lindsay Clancy to remain committed at hospital in deaths of her children
Lindsay Clancy, the Duxbury mother who is accused of strangling her three young children, will remain committed at a state hospital for up to six more months.
Clancy, who is undergoing extended mental health care, waived her right to appear at a hearing on her case Wednesday in Lowell District Court, but both sides agreed she will remain at Tewksbury State Hospital, WCVB reported.
Clancy is facing two counts of murder, three counts of strangulation or suffocation and three counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon in the deaths of her children, 5-year-old daughter Cora, 3-year-old son Dawson and 7-month-old son Callan.
Cora and Dawson were pronounced dead at a hospital Jan. 24. Callan was flown to Boston Children's Hospital with traumatic injuries and placed on life support but died Jan. 27.
Clancy's lawyer, Kevin Reddington, has said she had postpartum depression and was overmedicated at the time of her children's deaths.
Reddington said Clancy told her husband, Patrick, that a man's voice told her to kill her children.
Clancy jumped out the window of the family's home after the children were killed. Reddington said the jump has left her a paraplegic with spinal transection.
"Her emotional state is so bad that there's a significant fear of suicide," he said. "She has to have someone sit in the room 24/7 to watch her; they don't talk to her. They're not, you know, chatting it up. They just sit there and watch out of that concern that she would commit suicide."
Her next court hearing is set for July 25, and she will remain held without bail, WCVB reported.
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