Lindsay Clancy Trial: Therapist Latisha Dukes Admits She Never Read the Prior Notes

Lindsay Clancy, the 34-year-old Duxbury, Massachusetts mother accused of strangling her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan — with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023, was back in Plymouth Superior Court today for testimony that cut right into how her mental health care was actually handled before the killings. Clancy faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation. She's pleaded not guilty, and her attorney, Kevin Reddington, is running an insanity defense built around severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.

Today it was Latisha Dukes, a counselor and psychologist at South Shore Hospital, under cross-examination — and the admission was a big one. Dukes said she never read the notes or records from Paul or Jollotta before working with Clancy. She testified Clancy was afraid of becoming addicted to Ativan just to sleep, and that she genuinely had "unmanageable anxiety," depression, and both passive and active suicidal ideation. On redirect, Dukes defended the gap, saying she skipped the prior records deliberately to approach the case with "fresh eyes." She also said she had no input into medication management. Separately, Duxbury Police Officer Cameron Dailey testified about being assigned to provide security and watch Clancy at the hospital.

Prosecutors are still expected to argue Clancy understood what she was doing despite the mental-health claims. After the killings, Clancy allegedly attempted suicide by jumping from a second-story window and is now paralyzed from the waist down. Her husband, Patrick Clancy, was out running errands at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan. The trial is expected to run several weeks.

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