{"id":221450,"date":"2026-08-21T12:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T12:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/women-rally-in-support-of-lindsay-clancy-nobody-takes-us-seriously-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T12:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T12:01:18","slug":"women-rally-in-support-of-lindsay-clancy-nobody-takes-us-seriously-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/women-rally-in-support-of-lindsay-clancy-nobody-takes-us-seriously-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Women rally in support of Lindsay Clancy: \u2018Nobody takes us seriously\u2019 – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hundreds of supporters, many wearing pink clothing, gather outside court in Massachusetts as trial continues
Hundreds of Lindsay Clancy supporters, many wearing pink clothing emblazoned with phrases such as \u201cBelieve\u201d, \u201cShe Needed Help\u201d and \u201cPeace For Lindsay\u201d, gathered on Thursday outside the courthouse where she is on trial in the killings of her three children.
Several of the 300 women, and a few men, said Clancy\u2019s story resonated with them and that they wanted to raise awareness about how the mental health system treats women. Clancy\u2019s lawyer does not dispute that she killed the children, but says she should not be held criminally responsible because she was mentally ill.
The live-streamed trial in Plymouth, Massachusetts<\/a> has sparked massive discussions online and has brought attention to postpartum psychosis. Clancy\u2019s attorney, Kevin Reddington, says she suffered from this rare mental illness, which is linked to the stress, sleep deprivation and hormonal changes that follow childbirth. Reddington said she also has bipolar disorder and had repeatedly sought expert help. After strangling her children, Clancy jumped from a second-story window and remains paralyzed from the waist down.
Prosecutors say the former labor and delivery nurse planned the 24 January 2023, killings and contrived to get her husband out of the house by sending him to pick up medicine for one of their children and dinner for the family.
Thursday\u2019s rally was the first time during the nearly month-long trial that supporters have come out in such large numbers.
\u201cWomen are being dismissed, neglected and ignored when we speak up,\u201d said April Vincent, a 52-year-old paralegal from Providence, Rhode Island. \u201cWe\u2019re scared because nobody takes us seriously.\u201d
The women stood silently for more than an hour ahead of Thursday\u2019s proceedings, where a chaplain called by the defense testified about visiting Clancy in the hospital after the killings.
At the sight of Reddington outside the courthouse, the crowd broke into applause.
Rally organizer Renee Kimball implored the crowd to trust that Reddington \u201chas Lindsay\u2019s fight\u201d.
Toward the end of their rally, supporters formed a circle, said the Lord\u2019s Prayer, held up their arms and formed hearts with their hands. Some held flags from different countries to show that the support for Clancy was international.
Clancy, 36, has pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the deaths of Callan, Dawson and Cora Clancy, who ranged from eight months to five years old. Researchers estimate that postpartum psychosis \u2013 which is more serious and less common than postpartum depression \u2013 afflicts one to two cases per 1,000 women after delivery.
Jeanne Zaborski, a 72-year-old retired nurse from Rockland, Massachusetts<\/a>, said she hopes the case raises awareness about postpartum health. She and many others at the rally said they had been following the trial almost daily.
\u201cIt\u2019s very sad,\u201d Zaborski said. \u201cI am a mother. I am a grandmother. I have a sister who had problems after birth and it\u2019s just very sad. I hope Lindsay gets the care she needs and deserves and other women will come together like we did today.\u201d
In court, Sheila Cavanaugh, a chaplain at Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital in Boston, testified that when she first visited Clancy, she was unconscious. By 31 January 2023, Clancy was conscious and no longer connected to a ventilator, Cavanaugh said, but \u201cher emotional state was very neutral \u2013 a flat affect.\u201d
Cavanaugh said she \u201cvividly remembers\u201d one of the first things Clancy said to her.
\u201cShe said to me, as I held her hand to comfort her, \u2018I\u2019m so glad my children are safe,\u2019\u201d Cavanaugh said. \u201cI replied theologically to Lindsay. I said, \u2018Lindsay, your children are safe. They\u2019re safe in heaven with God\u2019.\u201d
\u201cWe prayed for them,\u201d said Cavanaugh, who saw Clancy more than 200 times and has visited her at the state mental hospital where she resides.
Cavanaugh told the court that Clancy \u201calluded to hearing a voice, and the voice, according to Lindsay, told her that if she did not follow the command, neither she nor her children would be safe\u201d.
Prosecutors questioned why Cavanaugh had not documented the disclosure about the voice in notes she made in Clancy\u2019s hospital record.
\u201cI\u2019m not there to evaluate the patient; I\u2019m there to bear witness to their suffering,\u201d Cavanaugh said, noting that she is not medically trained and her notes aren\u2019t meant to be verbatim transcripts of conversations.
Their last visit was right before the trial started. She said Clancy \u201ctalks frequently about her children\u201d.
\u201cShe loves them deeply,\u201d Cavanaugh said. \u201cShe carries immense grief.\u201d
<\/span> In the US, you can call or text the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline<\/a> at 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org<\/a>. In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans<\/a> can be contacted on freephone 116 123. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline<\/a> is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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