Husband of Massachusetts woman who allegedly killed their three children voices forgiveness
The husband of a Massachusetts mother who killed their three children and tried to kill herself has asked for her to be forgiven.
Lindsay Clancy, 32, allegedly choked all of the young kids – Cora, 5, Dawson, 3 and Callan, 7 months – last Tuesday and then jumped out of a window. Cora and Dawson died that night, and Callan three days later.
Emergency responders found the young ones at the family home in Duxbury, Mass., last Tuesday with “obvious signs of severe trauma,” according to prosecutors. Their mother has been charged with two counts of homicide, three of strangulation and three of assault and battery with a deadly weapon.
She’s recovering in a hospital pending arraignment.
Lindsay Clancy had been struggling with postpartum issues in the wake of the birth of her third child, according to People, and was attending a program to address it five days a week.
Over the weekend, husband Patrick Clancy set up a fundraising site with a lengthy statement about how cherished his children were, describing some of their unique qualities.
“My family was the best thing that ever happened to me,” he wrote. “I took so much pride in being Lindsay’s husband and a dad to Cora, Dawson, and Callan. I always reminded myself that each day with them was a new gift.”
Even though that gift has been snatched away, he still had kind words for his wife and said he had been overcome “with the kind of love at first sight you only see in movies” the first time he’d set eyes on her.
He asked for the world to give her that grace.
“I want to ask all of you that you find it deep within yourselves to forgive Lindsay, as I have,” he wrote. “The real Lindsay was generously loving and caring towards everyone — me, our kids, family, friends and her patients. The very fibers of her soul are loving. All I wish for her now is that she can somehow find peace.”
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