Jury Deliberates in Lindsay Clancy Child Murder Trial
The Spin
Narrative A
The Lindsay Clancy trial points to a woman destroyed by adverse medication reactions, severe sleep deprivation and postpartum psychosis — not a calculated killer. Clancy was a victim as well, a victim of a broken mental health system that she desperately needed to work effectively. Health care access for women and mothers is woefully inadequate and dismissive, and this case has started a real conversation.
Narrative B
The tragedy of this case has been obscured by a disturbing online fandom around Clancy. Countless women on TikTok and elsewhere are transposing their everyday qualms with motherhood onto a case involving a rare postpartum condition and infanticide. Regardless of how the jury rules, three children are dead, and they have been utterly lost in the noise. The children are the real victims of this case.