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Forensic psychologist testifies Lindsay Clancy lacked criminal culpability in the deaths of her three children.

Forensic psychologist testifies Lindsay Clancy lacked criminal culpability in the deaths of her three children.

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August 20th, 2026

Forensic psychologist testifies Lindsay Clancy lacked criminal culpability in the deaths of her three children.

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During her murder trial on Wednesday, a psychologist testifying for the defense asserted that Lindsay Clancy, owing to her psychiatric condition, failed to apprehend the "wrongfulness" inherent in the slaying of her three children.

水曜日の殺人裁判において弁護側の証人として証言した心理学者はリンジー・クランシーが精神疾患ゆえに三人の子を殺める行為に内在する「違法性」を認識できなかった主張した

The testimony of Paul Zeizel constitutes the most compelling evidence adduced thus far in support of the defense's contention that Clancy ought not to be held criminally culpable for murder, given her diagnosis of bipolar disorder and her subjugation to a rare psychiatric afflictionpostpartum psychosisat the time she perpetrated the deaths of her three children prior to attempting her own demise.

ポール・ザイゼルの証言は、双極性障害の診断と、自身の命を絶とうとする前に三人の子供たちの死を遂げた際に彼女が罹患していた稀な精神疾患——産後精神病——への服従を考慮すれば、クランシーが殺人に対して刑事責任を問われるべきではないという弁護側の主張支持するこれまでに提出された中で最も説得力のある証拠構成している

Zeizel commenced his clinical engagement with Clancy as a patient at a hospital in the aftermath of these fatalities.

ザイゼルは、これらの死亡事件の余波の中で病院においてクランシーを患者として臨床的に関与し始めた。

She was incapable of aligning her conduct with the rule of law.

彼女は自らの行動を法の支配に適合させることが不可能であった

She evinced no cognizance of the culpability inherent in her actions,” Zeizel remarked, further noting that she suffered froma mental disease or a defect.”

彼女は自らの行為に内在する有責性を認識する素振りを微塵も示さなかったとザイゼルは述べさらに彼女が「精神疾患または欠陥」を患っていたと指摘した。

EDITORS NOTE: This story includes discussion of suicide.

編集者注本記事には自殺に関する記述含まれます

If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988.

あなた自身または知人支援を必要としている場合米国の全国自殺・危機対応ライフラインは、988への通話またはテキスト送信により利用可能です

Clancy, 38, has entered a plea of not guilty to charges of murder in connection with the deaths of Callan, Dawson, and Cora Clancy, whose ages spanned from eight months to five years.

38歳のクランシーは、生後8か月から5歳に及ぶキャラン、ドーソン、そしてコーラ・クランシーの死亡に関連する殺人罪に対し無罪を主張する答弁を行った

Postpartum psychosis is etiologically associated with the physiological stressors, sleep deprivation, and hormonal fluctuations consequent to childbirth.

産後精神病は、出産に起因する生理的ストレス要因睡眠不足およびホルモンの変動病因論的に関連づけられている

Epidemiological research indicates that this conditionmore severe and less prevalent than postpartum depressionafflicts approximately one to two women per thousand following delivery.

疫学研究によれば、産後うつ病よりも重症でありながら発生頻度は低いこの病態は、出産後の女性1,000人につきおよそ1〜2人苦しめていることが示されている

Prosecutors allege that the former labor and delivery nurse orchestrated the January 2023 homicides and cunningly devised a pretext to remove her husband from the residence by dispatching him to procure medication for one of their offspring and supper for the family.

検察は元産科・分娩看護師である被告が2023年1月の殺人事件を首謀し夫を自宅から遠ざけるための口実を狡猾に案出して子供の一人の家族の夕食を調達するよう夫を遣わした主張している

Zeizel, who stated that he had devoted upwards of 35 hours to Clancy across numerous visits and had examined her medical records, recounted that she presented at a perinatal clinic in December 2022, reporting that she felt herbrain was damaged,” thatshe should kill herself,” and that sheis never going to get any better.”

ザイゼルは複数回の訪問を通じてクランシーに35時間以上を費やし彼女の診療記録も精査したと述べたが、彼女が2022年12月に周産期クリニックを受診し、自身の「脳が損傷している」と感じ「自殺すべきだ」と訴え「決して良くなることはない」と語ったことを回想した

Moreover, she exhibited manifestations of psychosis, displayed paranoid ideation, and harbored fears that others could intercept her thoughts and that she would be deprived of her children.

さらに彼女は精神病の徴候を示し妄想性の思考を呈し他者が自分の思考を傍受し得るという恐怖や、子どもを奪われるのではないかという懸念を抱いていた。

She harbored a profound dread that her children might be wrested from her custody, and that she would be consigned to a lifetime bereft of their presence,” he recounted.

彼女は自分の子供たちが親権から奪われその存在を欠いた生涯を送ることになるのではないかという深い恐怖を抱いていたと彼は述べた

Yet the mere fact of her psychotic state, Zeizel contended, did not preclude her from performing "everyday tasks of living"such as driving and browsing the interneta point underscored by her conduct on the day of the killings, when she transported her daughter to a physician, engaged the children in play amid the snow, and conducted online searches for a pharmacy and a restaurant.

しかしながら彼女の精神病状態という単なる事実は、ザイゼルが主張したところによれば運転やインターネット閲覧といった「日常生活の諸動作」遂行することを妨げるものではなかった——この点は、殺害当日の彼女の行動、すなわち娘を医師のもとへ連れて行き、雪の中で子どもたちと遊びに興じ薬局とレストランをオンラインで検索したという行動によって、いっそう裏書きされていたのである。

Thus, the fact that she refrains from referencing the unicorns in the corner, exhibits no slurring of her speech, and demonstrates no impairment in her ambulationdoes that, in your professional opinion, to a reasonable degree of medical certainty, preclude the possibility that she is in a psychotic state?”

それでは、彼女が隅の一角獣に言及することを控え言語の不明瞭さを示さず歩行に障害を呈さないという事実はあなたの専門的見解において合理的な医学的確実性をもって彼女が精神病状態にある可能性を排除するものなのでしょうか?」

Clancys attorney Kevin Reddington inquired.

クランシーの弁護士ケビン・レディントン尋ねた

Zeizel responded: "It does not."

ザイゼルは応じた:「それはありません。」

During cross-examination, the prosecution highlighted inconsistencies in Zeizel's report concerning Clancy and challenged the feasibility of her maintaining objectivity in diagnosing a patient with whom she was concurrently engaged in a professional capacity for the defensea collaboration that extended to her public appearances alongside Reddington at press conferences.

反対尋問の過程で検察側はクランシーに関するザイゼルの報告書における矛盾点を浮き彫りにし、彼女が弁護側の専門的立場として同時に関与していた患者を診断するにあたり客観性を維持することの実現可能性に異議を唱えた——その協力関係はレディントンと並んで記者会見に出席するという公の場にまで及んでいたのである。

Zeizel conceded that Clancys medical records contained no documentation of her reporting auditory hallucinations instructing her to take her own life, only that she had conveyed to her caregivers a desire to die.

ザイゼルは、クランシーの医療記録には、彼女が自らの命を絶つよう指示する幻聴を報告したという記載が一切存在せず、彼女が介護者たちに死への願望を伝えたに過ぎないことを認めた。

Prosecutors have cast doubt upon the veracity of Clancys purported suicide attempt.

検察側はクランシーによる自殺未遂とされる行為の真実性に疑義を呈している

Having strangled her children, Clancy leapt from a second-story window and now remains paralyzed from the waist down.

クランシーは我が子らを絞殺した後二階の窓から飛び降り、現在は腰部以下が麻痺した状態が続いている。

Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham also adduced excerpts from the daily clinical records of Tewksbury Hospital, the state psychiatric facility where Clancy resides, which noted the anniversary of the homicides and the dates that would have marked her childrens birthdays.

検察官シャナン・バッキンガムまたクランシーが収容されている州立精神科施設であるテュークスベリー病院の日々の臨床記録から抜粋を提出し、そこには殺人事件の記念日と、彼女の子どもたちの誕生日に当たるはずだった日付が記されていた。

Those entries documented occasional visits from her parents or her engagement in conversation with fellow patients, yet they made no mention of any observance or commemoration she undertook in memory of her children.

それらの記録には両親による時折の面会や、他の患者との会話への関与が記載されていたものの、彼女が子どもたちを追悼して行ったいかなる儀式や記念行事についても一切言及されていなかった。

Reddington inquired of Zeizel whether she had observed any indication in the hospital records of her "laughing, and partying and having a good time" during her stay.

レディントンはザイゼルに対し入院中の彼女が「笑い、騒ぎ、楽しい時間を過ごしていた」という兆候を病院の記録で観察したかどうかを尋ねた

Lindsay Clancy endures days of varying severity, some merely adverse and others altogether calamitous,” Zeizel remarked.

リンジー・クランシーは軽度の不快な日々からまったくの破局的な日々までその深刻さにおいて様々な日々を耐え忍んでいるとザイゼルは述べた

Zeizel further remarked that Clancy frequently speaks of her children, endeavoring to refute the prosecutions assertion that she never alludes to them.

ザイゼルはさらに、クランシーが頻繁に子供たちのことを語り、検察側の「彼女は子供たちに一切言及しない」という主張を覆そうと努めていると述べた。

She genuinely adores them, yearns for their presence, and holds them in her thoughts every single day, at virtually every waking moment,” Zeizel observed.

彼女は心から子供たちを愛しその存在を渇望し目覚めているほぼ全ての瞬間毎日彼らのことを思い続けている」とザイゼルは所見を述べた

Should Clancy be convicted of murder, she faces a life sentence without the possibility of parole; conversely, should she be acquitted on grounds of diminished criminal responsibility, she would be remanded to a state psychiatric facility.

クランシーが殺人罪で有罪となれば仮釈放の可能性のない終身刑に直面する一方刑事責任能力の減弱を理由に無罪となれば州立精神病院へ送致が命じられることになる

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