Lindsay Clancy sobs during murder trial as jurors view autopsy photos of her youngest child

PLYMOUTH, Mass. — Lindsay Clancy sobbed uncontrollably Thursday as jurors viewed autopsy photos of the youngest of her three children who she strangled in 2023, until the court eventually had to take an unscheduled break.

In the second week of her Massachusetts murder trial, prosecutors brought more friends, a former work colleague and her former father-in-law to testify about Clancy's mental and emotional state. For the most part, they said she was open about her postpregnancy mental health struggles but seemed like a loving mother who cared for her kids.

The prosecution wants to show the 35-year-old former labor and delivery nurse acted intentionally and should be held criminally responsible, while Clancy's defense says she had postpartum psychosis, a rare and dangerous psychiatric condition that affects women's hold on reality after childbirth.

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