Posted on 08/29/2026 3:38:06 AM PDT by Libloather
A Bronx judge found a mother of two suffering from postpartum psychosis not guilty of killing her young children in 2022 — while jurors in Massachusetts are in the middle of deliberating a similar fate for Lindsay Clancy.
Dimone Fleming, 26, was found not responsible by mental disease or defect in court on Monday for the deaths of her two children, 3-year-old Daishawn Fleming and 11-month-old Octavius Canada, at a Bronx family shelter, the New York Times reported.
On the night of the gruesome killings, Fleming was “grossly psychotic and out of touch with reality,” according to psychiatrist Dr. Eric Goldsmith.
Goldsmith, who evaluated Fleming at the request of the prosecution, said she was hallucinating, convinced that the world was coming to an end and believed a spirit had invaded her body.
Similarly, “Ms. Fleming believed her actions were necessary to protect or ‘cleanse’ her children,” according to a forensic psychiatrist report written by doctors hired by the defense.
Before the killings, Fleming had been treated at a Queens hospital for two months, where she was diagnosed with major depressive disorder and prescribed psychotropic medication, the Times reported, citing court records.
But the mother of two did not take her medication as prescribed and instead used marijuana daily — which reportedly exacerbated her mental health symptoms.
Mental examinations ordered by both the prosecution and defense determined Fleming was in a state of psychosis at the time of the bloody killings.
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I remember a verdict proposed years ago but never used that I know of.
“GUILTY BUT INSANE.”
So, the judge just overlooked the fact that she willingly, decided to not take her prescribed medicine and instead, smoke dope. Too me, she is guilty, because, her actions led to her state of mind, which led to her killing her children.
Postpardum psychosis = abortion 2.0
Who here remembers Andrea Yates who murdered her five children by drowning them back in 2001? She was later found not guilty by reason of insanity and institutionalized until present.
No individual or group came out in public support of what she did back then.
It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along.
Indiana had that at one time. Don’t know if it is still on the books, but it was back in the 80’s. If you were found not guilty by reason of insanity you were incarcerated in a mental hospital for the duration of the sentence or until you were judged to be sane enough to go to an actual prison.
Feeling exactly the same here...
We’ve lost our collective mind. Society has gone off the rails, and there’s no conductor to get us back to track. Except, of course, for Jesus Christ.
Excellent analysis.
According the Nor’eastern Windy DemonRATS, IT’S OKAY TO MURDER YOUR KIDS. JUST DON’T YOU DARE SPANKING THEM. YOUR ASS WILL WIND UP IN PRISON.
know it happens in the animal world as well.
We ain’t animals.
I hope I'm wrong, but we're maybe going to see a lot of copycats among these liberal, lunatic women.
She will kill again.
I know, but when I go to Wal-Mart or another big store I pretty much always see a 300lb. woman with a 6 month old baby and I think to myself, "Who in the world would ..."
Why not. I a woman can kill her unborn baby, there’s nothing to keep her from declaring postpartum depression as long as she skillfully plans it out. Women across the country are planning this event right now and lawyers are only too happy to defend them.
Lawyers have no soul.
Yep. Sets a precedent for women to kill their babies - Post Partum Depression made me do it.
Yes Nancy Pelosi was in fact shot. The word on the street is that her death was the result of a post-birth abortion
misleading bullshit clickbait headline of article unrelated to jury deliberation for Lindsay Clancy ...
Ms. Fleming believed her actions were necessary to protect or ‘cleanse’ her children,”
Kill this beyotch.
Since she refused to take the meds prescribed her, and instead chose to smoke marijuana, which made her symptoms worse, how are they going to get her to take her meds in the nuthouse? Hold her down and given forced Injections, or shoving pills down her throat?
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