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Lindsay Clancy's defense team delivered their closing arguments in court, focusing on whether postpartum psychosis led her to kill her children.

Lindsay Clancy's defense team delivered their closing arguments in court, focusing on whether postpartum psychosis led her to kill her children.

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August 21st, 2026

Lindsay Clancy's defense team delivered their closing arguments in court, focusing on whether postpartum psychosis led her to kill her children.

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The defence concluded its case on Friday in the trial of Lindsay Clancy for murder, following several days during which the court heard testimony concerning her mental state both before and after she strangled her three young children.

辩护方于周五在琳赛·克兰西谋杀案的庭审中结束了其案情陈述此前数日间法庭听取了关于她在勒死三名年幼子女之前及之后精神状态的证词。

Subsequently, the prosecution proceeded to call rebuttal witnesses to the stand, suggesting that the trial may have entered its final phase.

随后检察官着手传唤反驳证人出庭审判或已步入尾声阶段

Closing arguments are anticipated to formally commence next week.

预计结案陈词将于下周正式展开

Clancy, aged 36, entered a plea of not guilty to the murder charges concerning the deaths of his children, Callan, Dawson, and Cora Clancy, whose ages ranged from eight months to five years.

36岁的克兰西对杀害其子女卡兰、道森和科拉·克兰西的谋杀指控拒不认罪这些孩子的年龄介于8个月至5岁之间

They were discovered in the basement of the family home in Duxbury, a coastal town in Massachusetts.

他们被发现于马萨诸塞州沿海城镇达克斯伯里家中的地下室

Having strangled the children, Clancy leapt from a second-floor window and is now paralyzed from the waist down.

克兰西在勒死孩子们后从二楼窗户纵身跃下目前腰部以下瘫痪

The prosecutor asserted in court that Clancy, who had worked in labor and obstetric care, meticulously planned and executed the murders.

检察官在法庭上坚称曾担任分娩与产科护理工作的克兰西精心策划实施了这起谋杀案

Editor's note: This report addresses discussions pertaining to suicide-related topics.

编者按本报道涉及自杀相关议题的讨论

Should you or someone you know be confronting such circumstances, you may call or text 988 to reach the National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline in the United States for professional assistance.

您本人您所认识的人正面临此类困境拨打发送短信至988联系美国全国自杀与危机生命热线以获得专业援助

Clancy's attorney, Kevin Reddington, did not contest the fact that she killed her children, but argued that she should not be held criminally responsible, as she suffered from postpartum psychosis, a rare psychiatric condition linked to the stress, sleep deprivation, and hormonal shifts following childbirth.

克兰西的律师凯文·雷丁顿并未她杀害孩子的事实提出异议,表示不应承担刑事责任因为她患有产后精神病,这是一种与分娩后的压力睡眠剥夺激素变化相关的罕见精神疾病

He sought to bolster this defense by urging the jury to hear further testimony from Clancy's family members, who provided a detailed account of the gradual deterioration of her mental health in the lead-up to the murders in January 2023, as well as her efforts to improve through psychiatric treatment and medication.

他试图通过促使陪审团聆听更多克兰西家属的证词来强化这一辩护立场这些家属详尽陈述了在2023年1月谋杀案发生前心理健康状况的逐步恶化以及她借助精神科治疗与药物力求改善的历程

Furthermore, the jury also heard testimony from a psychologist and a hospital chaplain, both of whom had met with Clancy following the murders.

此外陪审团还听取了心理学家与医院牧师的证词两人在谋杀案发生后曾与克兰西进行过会面

On Friday, as the final witness to take the stand, Reddington summoned Dr. Philip Resnick, a forensic psychiatrist whose expertise lies in the field of filicidethe killing of a child by a parent.

周五作为最后一位出庭的证人雷丁顿传唤了菲利普·雷斯尼克博士,此君乃法医精神病学家专精于杀婴——父母戕害子女——这一领域

In his testimony, Resnick asserted that on the day Clancy killed his children, he was evidently in a state of severe mental derangement, rendering him incapable of controlling his own actions.

雷斯尼克在证词中指出克兰西在杀害其子女当日显然处于严重精神错乱的状态以致无法对自己的行为加以控制。

"She was like a puppet whose strings were held by someone else," Resnick remarked.

宛如一具受人操控的木偶,线绳握在他人手中,”雷斯尼克如是说

He had testified for the defense at the 2006 trial of Andrea Yates, a Texas mother who drowned her five children in 2001.

2006年安德烈·耶茨审判辩方作证,而耶茨是德克萨斯州的一位母亲,于2001年溺死了自己的五个孩子

Resnick stated that, four months after the murders, he had spent hours interviewing Clancy and believed she tended to understate rather than exaggerate her symptoms.

雷斯尼克表示在谋杀案发生四个月后,他曾花费数小时访谈克兰西认为倾向于低估而非夸大自身症状

He described her as suffering from major depression with clinical evidence consistent with bipolar disorder, and reported that she heard a voice commanding her to kill her own children.

患有重度抑郁症存在符合双相情感障碍的临床证据并报告称听到一个声音命令杀害自己的孩子

Resnick delineated the various forms of infanticide, one of which involves abusive homicide.

雷斯尼克阐述了杀婴行为多种形态其中一类涉及虐待性杀人

The remaining categories encompass psychopathology-driven infanticide, as well as what he terms 'altruistic' infanticidethat is, killings perpetrated 'out of love rather than hostility.'

其余类别涵盖精神病理学所驱动的杀婴以及他所谓的利他”性杀婴——出于爱而非敌意所实施的杀戮

He noted that Clancy's case exhibited features of the latter two types, yet no evidence of abuse was found.

他指出克兰西一案呈现出后两种类型的特征未发现任何虐待的证据

Resnick stated that Clancy harbored an obsession, believing that if social services took the children away or she took her own life, the children would suffer from losing her, and she felt it would be better for them to die with her and ascend to heaven together.

雷斯尼克表示克兰西有一种执念认为如果社会服务机构带走孩子她自杀,孩子们会因失去她而痛苦她觉得孩子们与她一同死去并升入天堂会更好

"She was convinced that she was making the right choice for her children's well-being," he remarked.

深信自己孩子的福祉做出正确的抉择,”他如是说

During the cross-examination, prosecutor Jennifer Sprague challenged this account.

在交叉询问环节检察官詹妮弗·斯普拉格对该描述提出了质疑

"In that case, would it not be more prudent to annihilate them entirely rather than allow them to be taken captive?" Sprague inquired.

那么与其让他们被俘,不如将他们尽数歼灭岂非更为妥当?”斯普拉格问道

The judge ruled to dismiss the matter.

法官裁定对该问题予以驳回

The prosecutor argued in court that Clancy had meticulously arranged for her husband to be away from home on the day of the murder.

检察官在法庭上主张克兰西在谋杀当日精心安排使丈夫得以离家外出

They sought to demonstrate that, despite her treatment for symptoms of anxiety, insomnia, and depression, her mental state did not amount to psychosis.

他们力图证明尽管她因焦虑、失眠及抑郁症状而接受治疗,但其精神状态并未达到精神病的程度

The spelling of Clancy's name in the title has been corrected from Lindsey to Lindsay.

标题中克兰西的名字拼写从Lindsey更正为Lindsay

August 21st, 2026

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