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Lindsay Clancy rejected twice by crisis hotline before killing children, court told
Lindsay Clancy rejected twice by crisis hotline before killing children, court told
A mental health clinician testified that Lindsay Clancy contacted the crisis hotline ASPIRE twice in December 2022, and was told nothing could be done both times. Latiesha Dukes, who treated Clancy at…
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A mental health clinician testified that Lindsay Clancy contacted the crisis hotline ASPIRE twice in December 2022, and was told nothing could be done both times. Latiesha Dukes, who treated Clancy at South Shore Hospital's perinatal clinic, told a Massachusetts court on Wednesday that Clancy reported severe insomnia, anxiety, postpartum depression, and suicidal thoughts. Dukes recommended a higher level of care during a December 12 session due to
continued passive suicidal ideation,
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The ASPIRE hotline's refusal to help a woman who was clearly in distress, reporting intrusive thoughts of dying and seeking help twice, raises hard questions about where the bar for crisis intervention is set. That failure is now central to a defence that says Clancy was let down by the system. The prosecution insists she planned the killings. Trials are about assigning blame; the more uncomfortable question is whether a different response to those two calls might have prevented a tragedy entirely.
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