Its impact can be horrifying for good mothers
By Josh Resnek
A funeral was held for the murdered Duxbury children as their mother Lindsay Clancy prepared for her arraignment from the bed of her hospital room Tuesday.
The funeral took place Friday for five-year-old Cora Clancy, 3-year-old Dawson Clancy and 8-month-old Callan Clancy.
All three children were allegedly killed by their mother – two were dead at their home and one died two days later after Clancy jumped from a second story window in a suicide attempt.
She was suffering from an extreme case of postpartum depression.
The story has caused a great deal of attention to be cast on the crime. Killing three children is a horrific crime . Quite frankly, it is the type of crime from which there is no coming back for nearly everyone involved.
Such a crime apparently committed by a birthing nurse at the Massachusetts General Hospital, magnifies the situation as Clancy was respected by her co-workers, some of whom have spoken out in support of her during these dark times.
Clancy is facing two counts of murder and three counts each of strangulation and assault and battery with a deadly weapon. Upgraded charges are expected after the death of Callan.
Her husband Patrick Clancy said he has forgiven his wife in a statement published by the Boston Globe and printed as well in dozens of media outlets.
He has hired a lawyer to represent his wife during her arraignment and during the coming months as efforts will be made to prove she was overmedicated, mentally unstable, and not responsible for what she did.
It is impossible to believe Clancy killed her children for any reasons other than she was mentally incompetent at the time of the commission of these crimes.
Even calling what she did a crime increases the torture associated with this heart breaking story.
What is apparent to those of us reading about this tragic incident are what we all know in our hearts about human nature and what comes next for Clancy.
She is right now in a hospital bed, unable to walk, though not necessarily paralyzed, according to her attorney.
A police officer guards her room.
We all wonder, but in reality, I think we all know what she is thinking as she comes back to a more stable condition under the supervision of her doctors.
“There is not much of a future for her. All her future will be clouded forever by the deaths of her three young children because of what she did.
How can anyone live with that?
Frankly, you can Clancy.
She faces an emptiness that none of us can imagine.
All the love and care in the world will not pierce the emptiness and the horror she will carry with her for the rest of her life.
I feel sorry for her. I feel sorry for the her dead children. I feel sorry for her husband and for everyone involved.
The lesson in all of this
Post partumdepression can kill.