Accused Child unlawful killingers Support Groups Gain

A growing quantity of ladies are crashing out online over a youngster homicide case that has turned into a demented trigger célèbre.

Let’s not get it twisted: You can have sympathy for moms. You can have sympathy for moms who have post-partum psychosis. You can have sympathy for moms who have been failed by a medical system.

But let’s not have an excessive amount of sympathy for moms who strangle their own kids with exercise resistance bands. Because when you flip a heartless monster into a poster-woman for your motion, you would possibly have a slight drawback.

Just in case you’ve someway been in a position to dodge this mortifying story that has exploded onto social media, Lindsay Clancy is on trial in Massachusetts on three counts of homicide in the deaths of her kids — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months.

Her attorneys don’t dispute that she strangled the youngsters with exercise bands in January 2023. So, we’re not debating whether or not or not she killed her kids. Clancy isn’t even disputing it.

This has turn out to be a battle over a simple query: Who is the real sufferer right here?

Her protection crew is contesting whether or not she was criminally accountable at the time, arguing that she was struggling from postpartum psychosis, and docs had prescribed her a startling collection of benzodiazepine-derivative medicine and even an anti-psychotic medication for sleep.

There is a lot of circumstantial evidence, however, that factors in the direction of her having deliberate the execution of her kids, such as sending her then-husband Patrick out on errands, checking his journey time, and the heinous method she strangled each of her kids, one by one.

What is going on exterior the courtroom is one thing else completely.

Rep. Nancy Mace (SC-1) just lately drew consideration to the online motion surrounding Clancy, where supporters have adopted slogans such as “I Stand With Lindsay,” worn coordinated pink clothes, produced merchandise, and flooded TikTok with videos presenting themselves as emotionally related to her case.

This CANNOT be real. pic.twitter.com/a9msF3kUKK

— Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) August 22, 2026

There is no evidence Casey Anthony posted the meme. But the motion backing Lindsay Clancy is very real.

Hundreds of ladies dressed in pink gathered exterior a Massachusetts courthouse this week in a show of help for Lindsay Clancy, the previous labor and supply nurse accused of killing her three kids.

Wearing shirts bearing slogans including “Believe,” “She Needed Help” and “Peace for Lindsay,” supporters lined the streets exterior Plymouth Superior Court in Massachusetts as Clancy’s homicide trial entered its closing levels. For many, the demonstration was not merely about one defendant but a broader perception that ladies’s mental health considerations are too often dismissed by the medical system.

But the phenomenon is way greater online.

Women have posted videos of themselves holding their own infants and crying while excerpts from Clancy’s writings play over the footage. Some have used captions such as “same, Lindsay.” Other posts have framed the case as one thing nearly universally relatable to motherhood.

They’re utilizing Lindsay Clancy’s diary phrases read in court to make videos with their infants and they’re pretend crying. pic.twitter.com/wy4d0IZo7w

— Luka (@LukaLev) August 18, 2026

This is the girl I posted about earlier who I said her youngster was in hazard.

If listening to a youngster killer’s diary makes you relate to her and post these reactions, I stand by what I said. I feel the kid is in hazard. pic.twitter.com/2Hpq1RuHxU

— Luka (@LukaLev) August 18, 2026

There is now even “I Stand With Lindsay” merchandise — shirts, hats, stickers, mugs, socks and luggage marketed as expressions of “solidarity, compassion, and support.”

Then there’s the money.

A GoFundMe established for Clancy’s dad and mom has blown past $1 million, with almost 31,000 contributions as of Friday night time. The fundraiser is formally meant to help Michael and Paula Musgrove cowl the big bills they’ve incurred while relocating and supporting their daughter through years of court proceedings.

There is nothing inherently objectionable about serving to aged dad and mom who have watched their household collapse.

But 31,000 donations let you know one thing about the extraordinary emotional constituency that has shaped around this case.

We need to carry back mental establishments. ASAP.

We can start with these 31,000 monsters https://t.co/fNq79g2HZn

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) August 21, 2026

The web has taken a courtroom dispute over legal accountability and reworked it into one thing bordering on fandom.

I perceive the argument being made by many of these ladies: postpartum psychosis is real, it’s uncommon, and in extreme circumstances it could actually contain hallucinations, delusions and catastrophic habits. Estimates generally place its incidence at roughly one or two circumstances per 1,000 births.

Clancy’s protection called forensic psychiatrist Phillip Resnick, who testified that he believed she was psychotic and unable to distinguish proper from flawed when the killings occurred.

But recognizing a psychiatric condition is different from building a social motion around the particular person who killed three kids.

READ MORE: Why They Need to Believe Lindsay Clancy’s Husband eliminateed Her Children Despite Her Confession

Something culturally sinister is going on. Social media rewards emotional exhibitionism. It rewards people for displaying everybody how compassionate, how understanding and how virtuous they’re.

Apparently, saying “three children were killed and their deaths should remain the center of this story” is now too easy.

You need a pink shirt. You need a crying TikTok. You need the slogan. And ultimately the trigger can turn out to be indifferent from the victims completely.

This is not an completely new human impulse. Ted Bundy’s 1979 homicide trial drew large numbers of younger feminine spectators, some of whom brazenly admitted they had been fascinated by him. Scholars finding out true-crime tradition have documented related fan habits surrounding Bundy, Richard Ramirez, Charles Manson and other infamous killers.

the same old suspects pic.twitter.com/3zau6BPxP5

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) August 21, 2026

Social media has merely industrialized it. The distinction now is that everybody will get to turn out to be a broadcaster, newbie psychiatrist and detective at once.

The Guardian just lately described the Clancy phenomenon as “forensic fandom”: online communities treating real murder circumstances like serialized tv mysteries, looking for hidden clues and different villains because the ugly actuality is emotionally unsatisfying.

Some Clancy supporters have even pushed theories accusing her former husband Patrick of killing the youngsters despite surveillance and cellphone evidence inserting him at CVS when the killings occurred. So a lot for following the precise protection.

Clancy’s own attorneys aren’t arguing that Patrick did it. They are arguing that Lindsay did it while legally insane. That apparently is not sensational enough for TikTok.

All of this is going on against a broader cultural backdrop in which the worth society assigns to kids has turn out to be more and more contested.

Massachusetts just enacted a law altering its guidelines for abortions after 24 weeks. Beginning November 8, the earlier checklist of qualifying medical circumstances will probably be changed by a customary permitting an abortion after 24 weeks based upon the doctor’s “professional judgment.”

The statute also removes the power of a medical review course of to override that judgment.

This is a tradition that is getting means too snug trivializing the lives of human beings, even infants who are about to be born into this world.

And that’s where one thing could be very damaged: The Lindsay Clancy fangirls are signaling that they don’t suppose that this is a world price being born into or that lives are very treasured.

So the real victims — Cora, Dawson and Callan — are just collateral harm in a fairy story that is all about them: Why they’re upset at the world and could not need kids.

While people are understandably avoiding this case, because it’s too disturbing, and giving these unstable harridans an excessive amount of consideration is counter-productive, there’s a more healthy response to all of this.

We need to rebuild a tradition that treats kids as treasured, motherhood as important, mental sickness as requiring severe treatment, and victimhood as one thing that isn’t common.

Whatever the jury finally decides about Lindsay Clancy’s legal accountability, there’s no dispute about the real victims: The kids who died at the fingers of their mom.

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