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Lindsay Clancy was "begging for help" before killing her three children, her former mother-in-law testified on Tuesday, echoing others who have told a court that Clancy's mental health deteriorated after the birth of her youngest son.

Former Mother-in-Law Describes Lindsay Clancy’s Mental Health Struggle in Murder Trial Ms. Clancy, who is on trial for murder in the deaths of her three children, tried to find treatment for her deteriorating condition, her ex-husband’s mother testified.

BOSTON — Lindsay Clancy was “begging for help” in the months leading up to killing her three children and attempting to end her own life, Clancy’s former mother-in-law testified for the defense Tuesday in the fourth week of her murder trial.

Lindsay Clancy was clearly, severely mentally ill. I feel pity for the person who went through that nightmare of paranoia and command hallucinations. The medical system might not have done all it could; the medication pile-up looks reckless. But she still did it. The three children who used to speak, walk, crawl, and laugh are gone because of what she did. She is not the victim. The children are. Treating her as the central tragic figure while inventing conspiracies about her ex-husband is a form of soft denial, and a particularly ugly one when it comes wrapped in man-hating projection and online theater.

The defense in the Lindsay Clancy filicide case called the defendant’s mother as one of its first witnesses Monday, after three weeks of prosecution evidence laid out, in often harrowing detail, events surrounding Clancy’s killing of her three children.

Because Lindsay Clancy is an attractive, affluent, college-educated white woman from the East, she has garnered an outpouring of sympathy, mostly from leftist women, after admitting to murdering her three children.

Lindsay Clancy told her husband in a bone-chilling phone call after strangling their kids that she heard a male voice telling her to “kill her children and kill herself,” a shrink testified Tuesday.

This article discusses gruesome facts about a triple murder. The attorney for “Massachusetts mom” Lindsay Clancy admits she strangled her three young children to death with exercise bands, according to CBS News. Yet he argues she shouldn’t be held responsible for this demonically evil choice because “she was overmedicated for mental health issues and was suffering from extreme postpartum psychosis.”