An attorney for Lindsay Clancy, the mother who was charged with killing her three children, is calling on President Donald Trump to pardon his client, insisting their deaths resulted from postpartum depression rather than a premeditated act of evil.
Attorney Kevin Reddington appeared on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Tuesday to discuss the next steps in the case after a mistrial was declared last week due to the jury’s inability to reach a unanimous verdict.
Reddington concluded the interview with a message to President Trump, noting that he has “felt compelled to speak out about this case.”
“Mr. President, I would hope that you would consider this young lady, the type of person she is, what she’s been through and consider a pardon,” he said. Throughout his appearance, Reddington strongly rejected the premise that siding with Clancy required “rationalization” of “plain evil.”
“These people don’t understand. They don’t know what she went through. They didn’t see her text messages. They didn’t see her journal. They didn’t see the notes that she wrote,” Reddington maintained. “She reached out to everybody and anybody that would listen to her and kept saying ‘I am not good, I am not well,’ and it was ignored.”
Reddington vouched for Clancy’s character during the interview, praising his client as a “labor and delivery nurse” who was “well-respected” and “an incredible person.” He said she suffered from postpartum depression and cited her placement on medication by “a psychiatrist who had been practicing as a doctor for a month” as the reason why she strangled her three children with exercise bands and attempted to kill herself in January 2023.
The murders took place in Massachusetts, but the case has drawn national attention for its gruesome nature and has sparked debate over Clancy’s culpability. In an interview with The Christian Post, pro-life activist Abby Johnson argued that those sympathizing with Clancy, believing she should not be found guilty of murder, have “misguided compassion.”
Johnson believes some women are “using their own experiences with postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis” and “linking it to what Clancy did.”
“And they’re saying, ‘Oh, that could have been me,'” Johnson said. “That’s not actually true; most women who have postpartum psychosis do not kill their children.”
“Most women who are sympathizing with Clancy are not women who would have gone through the act of strangling three of their children,” Johnson added.
While Clancy’s defense urged the jury to treat the mother of three as an innocent victim of mental illness, the prosecution alleged that the murder was premeditated, saying she asked her husband to go get takeout so the house would be empty and she could commit the crime.
A court hearing is scheduled for Sept. 29, where the next steps in the case are expected to be determined. Because of the mistrial, the prosecution can seek another trial. The lawyer for Patrick Clancy, Clancy’s ex-husband and the father of the three victims, stated on his client’s behalf that “The prospect of reliving this tragedy through another trial is extraordinarily painful.”
Lindsay Clancy’s case is reminiscent of the 2001 case of Texas mother Andrea Yates, who drowned her five children in a bathtub. Although Yates was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison, she was later found not guilty by reason of insanity and sent to a psychiatric hospital.
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: [email protected]
