Mum cleared of child murders in postpartum psychosis case – as world awaits Clancy verdict

Daishawn Fleming, 3, and Octavius Canada, 11 months were stabbed to death (Picture: Facebook) A judge has found a mum not guilty of killing her two children by reason of insanity as the world waits for the verdict on the Lindsay Clancy case. Dimone Fleming, was 22 when she was accused of stabbing her two sons, 11-month

The NYC verdict comes as a Massachusetts jury deliberates in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial

Rare but particularly severe, this psychiatric disorder can suddenly cause a mother to lose touch with reality after giving birth. It is at the heart of the defense of Lindsay Clancy, an American woman currently on trial for the 2023 murders of her three children.

Rare but particularly severe, this psychiatric disorder can suddenly cause a mother to lose touch with reality after giving birth. It is at the heart of the defense of Lindsay Clancy, an American woman currently on trial for the 2023 murders of her three children.

Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder case must decide whether the former labor and delivery nurse is criminally responsible for killing her three children at her Massachusetts home in 2023

As jurors deliberate in the Lindsay Clancy trial, here are key moments they may be considering  AP News

The jury is deliberating what verdict they will give in the Lindsay Clancy trial, for the mother accused of killing her three children.

A Bronx judge determined Dimone Fleming, 26, is not criminally responsible for killing her two young sons in 2022 due to postpartum psychosis.

In the months before Lindsay Clancy killed her three children and tried to take her own life, she was desperate for help — she saw psychiatrists, called a suicide hotline and went to the emergency room and was turned away from inpatient treatment.

August 28, 2026 7:11 PM ET A psychiatrist who testified as a prosecution rebuttal witness in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial is “no longer employed” after telling the court that the mother showed no signs of the psychosis her lawyers say drove her to kill her three children, a report shows.Nemours Children’s Health in De

Jurors were excused Friday afternoon after not yet reaching a verdict in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial. The jury in Plymouth, Massachusetts, must decide whether to hold the former labour and delivery nurse criminally responsible for killing her three children in 2023. They are expected to resume deliberations Monday.

Jurors went home for the weekend Friday with deliberations set to resume Monday morning in the trial of Lindsay Clancy. Clancy has admitted to killing her three young children, but is arguing she was suffering from postpartum psychosis. CBS News' Shanelle Kaul has more.

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Jury in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial ends deliberations for the week  CNN

Clancy, 36, has pleaded not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility

Jury in Lindsay Clancy trial ends second day of deliberations without a verdict  Toronto Star

The trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mom who killed her three young children in January 2023, has reached its final stages.

A jury is left to decide the fate of US mother Lindsay Clancy, who has spent five weeks on trial for the murder of her three young children.

“We are concerned the [Lindsay] Clancy case could make psychiatrists more reluctant to treat mothers with mental illness,” write reproductive and forensic psychiatrists.

To reach a verdict, jurors must agree on whether Ms. Clancy should be held criminally responsible for killing her three children.

Lindsay Clancy could spend as few as several years in a mental institution if jurors accept her insanity defense, a retired Massachusetts judge says.

Turning Lindsay Clancy into a cause risks making a serious insanity defense look like an article of faith.

The pink-dressed supporters, who have protested at the Massachusetts trial, say doctors failed to provide adequate treatment despite the mother’s severe mental health struggles

The pink-dressed supporters, who have protested at the Massachusetts trial, say doctors failed to provide adequate treatment despite the mother’s severe mental health struggles

The jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial sent a note to the judge Friday as deliberations stretched into a second day in the closely watched Massachusetts case. The nine women and three men asked to see two bags of pills that were entered into evidence, along with the knife Clancy used in her suicide attempt ...

Jurors are deliberating in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, a case that has raised questions about maternal mental healthcare. Clancy does not deny killing her children, but she pleaded not guilty, arguing she can't be held criminally responsible because the murders occurred while she was suffering from postpartum p

Closing arguments are about to start in a trial which has drawn global attention to the rare condition postpartum psychosis.

Both sides agree that Clancy killed her children. But neither can offer a satisfactory explanation for why—and that vacuum has fuelled sympathy, vilification, and conspiracy theories.

Vanity Fair has fired a journalist after viral video captured her smiling and winking at the camera during the trial of Lindsay Clancy.

Testimony ended Wednesday in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, accused of killing her three children. Closing arguments are set to begin Thursday.

Closing arguments set for Thursday.

Testimony concluded Wednesday in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, a mother accused of strangling her three young children in a case that has drawn attention to postpartum mental health.

The jury in Lindsay Clancy 's murder trial has finished hearing all the evidence from the prosecution and defense as they prepare to hear closing arguments.

Testimony concluded Wednesday in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, a mother accused of strangling her three young children in a case that has drawn attention to postpartum mental health.

FBI psychiatrist Gregory Saathoff says he’s treated only two women with postpartum psychosis, both decades earlier The Lindsay Clancy trial was heading for closing arguments Wednesday, as a final witness for the prosecution laid out that he believed the Massachusetts mother knew right from wrong when she took the lives

Over the course of nearly a month, Lindsay Clancy has stood trial for the January 2023 killings of her three young children, a catastrophic tragedy that has riveted the country. The scenes unfolding in Judge William Sullivan’s courtroom in Plymouth, Massachusetts, have been excruciating. “I can’t do this,” Clancy sobbe

Lindsay Clancy is standing trial in the US accused of murdering her three children in what has been dubbed 'America's most heartbreaking murder trial'. Her defence claims she was in the grips of postpartum psychosis - a condition that affects as many as every one in 1,000 mothers

Why many right-wing men can't admit that postpartum disorders are real

Lindsay Clancy murder trial divides onlookers. Here's why  USA Today