DNA test planned for Duxbury's Lindsay Clancy, who is accused of killing her 3 children

PLYMOUTH − The attorney for Lindsay Clancy, the Duxbury woman facing murder charges in the deaths of her three children, has agreed to prosecutors' request to test her DNA.

During the first court date since the 33-year-old was arraigned in October, prosecutors and Clancy's lawyer, Kevin Reddington, on Friday discussed the DNA request, future court dates, summons for witnesses and the sharing of materials in the case with Judge William Sullivan at Plymouth Superior Court.

Reddington said he would not object to a motion from the state to obtain a DNA cheek swab sample from Clancy, who remains at Tewksbury Hospital for mental health evaluation and care.

Clancy uses a wheelchair after suffering below-the-waist paralysis after falling from her second-floor bedroom window the night of the killings.

Clancy accused of strangling her 3 young children

Prosecutors say Clancy strangled her kids Jan. 24 and then took a phone call from her husband, Patrick, after she sent him out to a Kingston CVS before he picked up dinner in North Plymouth in what prosecutors alleged at the hearing was a deliberate plan to get him out of the house.

Ahead of her October arraignment, unsealed search warrants and other documents detailed how Clancy kept journals of both her prescriptions for depression as well her feelings in general.

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Among those entries were references to both self-harm as well as expressions of wanting to harm her children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months. She is charged with three counts each of murder and strangulation.

The chief medical examiner said the children died of asphyxia. Exercise bands were used to strangle them, authorities said. Bands were collected from the home, according to police records.

Patrick and Lindsay Clancy had been married for six years at the time of the children's deaths.

Patrick Clancy told police he felt his wife had been put on too may medications, a number of which can have the unintended effect in some people of worsening depression symptoms to the point where suicidal thoughts may occur.

"Lindsay had the worst side effects possible" from the medications, he told police.

The next hearing is scheduled for 9 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 17, in Brockton Superior Court.

This article originally appeared on The Patriot Ledger: Duxbury's Lindsay Clancy, accused of killing her kids, to get DNA test