‘VOICE’ TOLD MOM TO KILL

Defense claim in Mass. triple-slay horror

Accused killer mom Lindsay Clancy told a psychologist she heard a man’s voice telling her to kill her children, prosecutors said Tuesday — as her lawyer described her new reality as a paraplegic at risk of suicide.

The Massachusetts nurse, 32, wore a neck brace and face mask as she appeared at her Plymouth District Court arraignment via Zoom, during which the state said she strangled her kids with an exercise rope. Prosecutors asked that she be held in prison without bail.

After hearing arguments from the defense about her serious wounds from an apparent suicide attempt, however, the court ruled that she would remain in her current hospital for the time being.

Clancy was on leave from her job as a labor and delivery nurse when she allegedly strangled her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months — at the family’s Duxbury home on Jan. 24.

Defense attorney Kevin Reddington hinted at his intention to put the health-care system on trial as he argued that Clancy was distraught after giving birth to Cora — charging that medicine fails women with “postpartum depression and even postpartum psychosis.”

Reddington said that Clancy was prescribed drugs including Prozac and Seroquel that included homicidal ideation among their side effects.

“[Clancy] was . . . a beautiful person who was destroyed by this medication,” he told the court.

Paralyzed in suicide bid

Reddington also announced that Clancy suffered spinal-cord injuries and is now paralyzed from the waist down after jumping from a window in the moments after the murders.

“She can’t walk . . . she can’t even go to the bathroom,” he said, noting that her emotional state was also “not well at all.”

He also said that Clancy told a psychologist she heard a “male voice” telling her to kill the children and herself beforehand.

Prosecutors argued that Clancy’s behavior before the killings showed no indication she was under any kind of psychosis, and that she appeared “lucid.”

Plymouth Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague described how the mom asked her husband to get takeout and then looked online to see how long it would take him get home.

“She planned these murders, gave herself the time and privacy needed to commit the murders, and then she strangled each child in the place where they should have felt the safest — at home with their mom,” Sprague said.

Clancy, who did not speak during the proceedings, could be seen dabbing her eyes at one point.

The state’s attorney also described in painstaking detail the moment dad Patrick found his children in the finished basement, each with exercise bands still wrapped around their “little necks.”

The grieving father’s screams “seemed to grow louder and louder” on the phone to 911 dispatchers, the prosecutor said. When first responders arrived at the scene, he allegedly yelled: “She killed the kids!”

Prosecutors detailed the “meticulous” notes in Clancy’s journals, which documented her children’s lives as well as her mental health journey.

Based on the notes, the state’s attorney alleged that she was never diagnosed with postpartum depression, although she wrote on her smartphone the day before the killings that she was experiencing a “touch of postpartum anxiety.”

Clancy faces first-degree murder charges in addition to three counts of strangulation and suffocation and three counts of assault with a deadly weapon.