Massachusetts mom accused of strangling 3 kids ordered to undergo psych exam

The Massachusetts mom charged with strangling her three kids with exercise bands, will undergo a psychiatric exam after her lawyers said they are preparing to mount an insanity defense.

Plymouth Superior Court Judge William F. Sullivan signed off on a request by prosecutors to have Lindsay Clancy evaluated by “experts chosen by the Commonwealth” in the case accusing her of killing kids Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 7 months inside their Duxbury, Mass. home in 2023.

Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, last month filed court papers announcing his intention to pursue the defense that Clancy shouldn’t be held criminally responsible for the tragedy because she was suffering from crippling postpartum depression and was overmedicated at the time of the murders.

In Massachusetts, the defense need only raise the insanity argument and it then becomes the prosecutor’s burden to prove otherwise, according to a NewsCenter 5 report.

Reddington wrote in the Dec. 13 filing that “statements of the defendant as to her mental condition will be relied upon by defendant’s expert witnesses and the defendant does intend to present to the court a defense of lack of criminal responsibility.”

Clancy, 33, is accused of committing the heinous killings before attempting suicide by jumping out of the window of the family’s Summer Street home on Jan. 24, 2023. She was left paralyzed and has been committed to Tewksbury State Hospital since May of 2023.

She had been on leave from her job at Massachusetts General Hospital as a labor and delivery nurse when prosecutors said she sent her husband on an errand for 20 minutes — using the time that she was alone with the kids to murder them.

Her husband Patrick Clancy has said he’s not angry with Lindsay and has forgiven her because she was not herself when she allegedly carried out the horrible acts.

“I wasn’t married to a monster,” Patrick told the New Yorker in an October interview. “I was married to someone who got sick.”

Lindsay’s trial had been slated for December 2025 but has since been pushed to January 2026.

She faces three counts of first-degree murder and strangulation and has pleaded not guilty.

Reddington didn’t immediately return a request for comment Thursday.