Clancy’s third child dies from injuries sustained at Duxbury home

BOSTON — An 8-month-old boy who was seriously injured at his home in Duxbury on Tuesday night has died in a Boston hospital, the Plymouth County District Attorney’s office said. His siblings, 5-year-old Cora and 3-year-old Dawson, also died.

“(Friday), at approximately 12:30 p.m., the State Medical Examiner’s Office contacted the Massachusetts State Police assigned to our office and reported that at 11:18 p.m. Clancy’s third child had been declared dead at the Children’s Hospital in Boston. District Attorney spokeswoman Beth Stone said.

Police responded to an 911 call Tuesday evening reporting a suicide attempt by a woman on Summer Street in Duxbury. When police arrived, they found a woman seriously injured after she jumped out of a second-story window and her two children strangled inside. Callan Clancy, an 8-month-old boy, was taken to the hospital with serious injuries.

Lindsey Clancy, 32, has already been charged with two counts of murdering Cora and Dawson Clancy, 3, and three counts of strangulation, assault and battery with a deadly weapon.

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Cora and Dawson were pronounced dead at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Plymouth on Tuesday. District Attorney Timothy Cruz said the medical examiner would be responsible for determining the exact means and cause of their deaths, but it appears they were strangled.

Cruz said “there’s no one here to speculate” about what exactly happened or why Lindsey Clancy might have killed her children. Duxbury Police Chief Michael Carbone did not say if police knew the Clancy family or if there were any previous 911 calls.

“Our hearts and condolences to the Clancy family,” Cruz said. “I can’t understand the depth of pain that can go on.”

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The incident sparked talk of postpartum depression and psychosis as the “unthinkable tragedy” has people across the region looking for answers.

Cases of women killing their children are often associated with postpartum depression or psychosis, the latter being a condition that can seriously alter a person’s mental state after childbirth. If left untreated, it can pose a serious danger to both the mother and her baby.

Nancy Byatt, a perinatal psychiatrist at the University of Massachusetts School of Medicine who is an expert on maternal depression, said postpartum psychosis can “take over the brain.”

Contact Mary Whitfill at [email protected].

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