Lindsay Clancy Verdict - Not As Nuts As It Sounds - The Kekistani Assembly of Experts

A lot of people have been deriding the Lindsay Clancy verdict, where it was 11-1 with one lone holdout for guilty of murdering her children. The other 11 jurors were voting for "not guilty due to insanity".

I read a little more details, and the verdict isn't as nuts as many people make it sound. They say she had mental health issues before the murder. The care she received was so awful that her doctors probably are guilty of malpractice. If you add in that bit of information, voting "not guilty due to insanity" sort of makes sense.

This case is a very hard call. She had mental problems, but a not guilty verdict due to insanity doesn't deliver justice for the three children she murdered in a very gruesome way. How could any mother do that to her little children that she supposedly loved? She could've poisoned them, but instead had them turn around while she strangled them from behind with exercise bands. That's extreme cruelty.

I think she's criminally insane and should spend life in prison. She planned the murders and searched for ways to kill online. Then she sent her husband out on an errand while she did it. I'm glad the one juror held out so there was a mistrial. She has to pay a price for what she did, insane or not.

Wasn't she supposedly on 10 or so psychoactive medications?

She was on a lot of drugs. She was prescribed 13 different psychiatric medicines over a one year period, according to AI. She had 4 different drugs in her system when she murdered the kids but she didn't take a lot of the pills she was prescribed, probably because they didn't help her.

She had severe postpartum depression/psychosis and should never have been allowed to care for her children alone. My sister-in-law had postpartum depression and she hated her newborn son. My mother-in-law took care of the baby for awhile until she could be trusted to care for him. She eventually grew out of the depression. I don't know if she took drugs to do it but her mother and husband made sure she didn't harm the baby.

The drugs she took didn't help, but Lindsay Clancy hated her kids at that time without any drugs. A woman with postpartum depression/psychosis has a warped view of motherhood and they're capable of anything.

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