Lindsay Clancy’s “worst day” was revealed in court docket Tuesday with jurors studying she was plagued with “persistent and intrusive ideas of suicide” — however denied entry into an outpatient program over fears she was “overmedicated,” her lawyer alleged.
The 35-year-old Massachusetts mom of three referred to as a nurse practitioner on Dec. 15, 2022, along with her then-husband, Patrick Clancy, to report she was having such darkish ideas and they might probably go to the emergency division of Mass Basic Hospital. Only a month later, she would go on to kill her children earlier than trying to kill herself.
Nurse practitioner Rebecca Jollotta – who works at South Shore Hospital’s Perinatal Behavioral Clinic – stated the pair informed her “this has been the worst day for Lindsay.”
She was having “persistent and intrusive ideas of suicide” however she had “no energetic plan” to hurt herself, Jolllota stated, studying from her notes concerning the telephone name.
The Clancys informed Jollotta they might “probably go to MGH” however that Clancy was additionally contemplating checking herself into psychological establishment McLean Hospital, Jollotta informed the jury.
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Clancy did go to the emergency room that day and ended up opting out of checking into McLean, deciding as a substitute that she would be a part of an outpatient program at Girls and Infants Hospital in Rhode Island, Jollotta stated.
The nurse practitioner had “strongly, strongly” really helpful that Clancy test into Girls and Infants in a Dec. 12, 2022 MyChart message to the struggling postpartum mother – who’d given beginning to her 8-month-old son, Callan, in Might 2022, the jury discovered.
Satirically, when Clancy went to Girls and Infants on Dec. 20, 2022, they turned her away as a result of they thought she might need been taking too many prescription medicines, in keeping with Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington.
“Do you know that, in reality, they wouldn’t settle for her due to their concern she had been overmedicated on medication?” Reddington stated to Jollotta throughout cross-examination.
“I can’t converse to that,” the nurse practitioner responded, noting she wasn’t affiliated with the opposite hospital.
Girls and Infants really helpful that Clancy enter a common psychological well being facility like McLean, somewhat than the hospital that specialised in postpartum, Clancy informed Jollotta over MyCharts the following day on Dec. 21, 2022.
Jollotta beforehand met with Clancy and Patrick in individual throughout a Dec. 6, 2022, go to and raised the likelihood that Clancy might have bipolar dysfunction, she testified.
“I recall Patrick saying, ‘My spouse shouldn’t be bipolar,’” Jollotta stated.
The nurse practitioner stated she suspected the dysfunction as a result of Clancy had such sturdy reactions to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) like Zoloft and Prozac – a typical facet impact for individuals with bipolar dysfunction.
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Clancy informed Jollotta that when she beforehand took Zoloft, “I didn’t sleep for 48 hours and I wasn’t drained,” Jollotta stated.
The dearth of sleep with no fatigue might be a symptom of a manic episode, Jollotta stated.
The nurse practitioner stated she thought Clancy’s contradictory signs prompt she is perhaps in a “combined manic, hypomanic state.”
On the one hand, Clancy had racing ideas and couldn’t sleep and on the opposite, she was depressed and felt numb, the nurse practitioner defined to the jury.
Nonetheless, Jollotta – who has handled 5 ladies with postpartum psychosis and tons of of different ladies with postpartum despair and anxiousness – by no means had issues Clancy was in psychosis, she testified.
She defined that she solely labored with Clancy from Nov. 29, 2022, by means of Dec. 13, 2022. Throughout that point, Jollotta prescribed her a slew of highly effective psychiatric medicines.
Clancy was additionally being prescribed medicines by her shrink, Dr. Jennifer Tufts, and she or he’d been given extra meds throughout an eventual stint at McLean that started on New 12 months’s Day 2023, weeks earlier than the killings.
She stayed within the facility for 5 days earlier than asking to go away to attend the birthday of her oldest youngster, Cora, 5.
Earlier than jurors have been introduced in for the eleventh day of trial Tuesday, Reddington requested Decide William Sullivan if he might name a therapist who beforehand labored at McLean to testify after she made a TikTok video saying she couldn’t stand for the “lies” that had come out at trial concerning the psychological establishment.
The therapist, Emily Thorndike, left McLean a yr previous to Clancy’s keep there however claimed she nonetheless had associates who labored there on the time and knew the hospital was understaffed on the vacations.
Thorndike, “is on the market, prepared, keen and in a position to testify about an workers’ opinion as to what a woeful atmosphere McLean provides, particularly on holidays … no person was there,” Reddington stated.
The protection lawyer stated after testimony from a psychiatrist who handled Clancy at McLean jurors “are left with the impression that McLean was this excellent place and [Clancy] didn’t have any curiosity in using what was out there to her.”
Clancy murdered Cora, Dawson, 3, and Callan with train bands earlier than she slit her wrists and throat and threw herself from the second story of her home. She was partially paralyzed within the fall and is now wheelchair certain.
Reddington is asking a jury to seek out her not responsible by cause of madness on the grounds she was misdiagnosed and overmedicated.
Clancy and Patrick — who has since remarried — have each filed medical malpractice lawsuits towards her suppliers for a similar cause.
