“On Friday, Dr. Avram Mack, a forensic psychiatrist, testified that he found no evidence of mania or hypomania to support a bipolar diagnosis — or of psychosis — leading up to the killings. He said Clancy was experiencing severe mental illness when she killed her children but that it was a continuation of the depression she had experienced for months in which she was able to control impulses and distinguish right from wrong.”
“In the months before killing her children, Clancy had sought treatment for mental health problems from multiple providers and admitted herself to a psychiatric hospital.”
In mid-December, Jollotta had a call with the couple and was told Clancy had her “worst day” and was “having persistent, intrusive thoughts of suicide.” Jollotta suggested she consider a higher level of care such as that offered by Massachusetts General Hospital. She settled on the Women and Infants Hospital postpartum program in Rhode Island but was soon discharged — with advice to stop taking one of her antipsychotic medication.
The article right above this is a good one to show she had been treated in patient and out at a few mental hospitals and was continually taking a number of drugs to control her mental state and actions. In some cases the perscribing indivual was askinbg her to cut back because she was taking so many.
You folks can say what you want, but the evidence is there for reasonable doubt.
wy69
“Clancy had her ‘worst day’ and was ‘having persistent, intrusive thoughts of suicide.’ Jollotta suggested she consider a higher level of care”
Jollotta should’ve suggested that she consider jumping from a window at least THREE STORIES high, and leave her kids alone.
“You folks can say what you want, but the evidence is there for reasonable doubt.”
There are still three murdered children, via a well-thought-out and carefully executed plan.
The thing that is not in doubt is that three individual human beings are dead by her hand. She had a responsibility as a parent and a healthcare professional to put the brakes on her own problems before the children got hurt by her. There are so many other things she could have done; there were four grandparents who would have helped with the kids so she could take a leave and rest; there were priests available for personal support and counsel; and doubtless they could have put her in touch with nuns such as the Medical Mission Sisters to help her and the kids; but she was deep into her determination to hurt her husband.
That is my conclusion. She felt unworthy because of her exhaustion, her pride, her depression or her lack of confidence in the God who made her; she extrapolated that to a morbid fear of the possibility that her husband could tire of her crap, divorce her (whether he actually wanted to or not), remarry, and have HER kids raised by another woman—and she wasn’t having that.
That’s why, supposedly suicidal, she took out the kids instead of herself, and did a crap job on killing herself, which she had known very well from hospital exposure how to do, being a nurse. She knew which veins to cut, which direction to cut and where her carotid artery and femoral arteries are. But did she just take herself out and spare her children? No. Because she wanted to destroy them so he couldn’t have them without her. Many spouses do this horrible act, both males and females.
She is criminally insane at best. At worst, she is a psychopathic manipulator—apparently her attorney’s volley of psychobabble has you fooled. She has no place in society ever again. The fact that she has admitted her deed but has the gall to ask to be declared not guilty is proof enough that she is either one or the other of the above two choices. But she most certainly is not innocent. She is a drug abuser and a liar.
She killed the kids. There is no reasonable doubt for that.