Thanks for this, it’s very interesting, I was going to write about the implications of the case and still probably am but there’s a lot to think about here
John. You could be right about the drugs. I was on medication for a while some years ago and one of the possible side affects was suicidal ideation. The PIL and my doctor both stressed that if I was getting any suicidal thoughts to immediately stop taking the medication and inform my doctor. Thankfully, no such side affects occurred and the medication did it's job.
"The first thing here is that Clancy has, evidently, been severely punished for what she did."
Not really.
She strangled three children to death. They weren't sedated so at some point at least two of them knew their mother was badly hurting a sibling. The youngest, 8 months old, obviously wouldn't have been cognisant of what was happening but would certainly have been terribly frightened by the sounds and crying. The middle child, the boy, was found in his father's office in the basement. I can only assume she didn't purposely move his body there so he must have sought safety there while she was strangling his older sister.
Being confined to a wheelchair and women's prison for life is nowhere near what I'd consider to be severely punished for that kind of monstrous crime. She should be executed but ironically the state with the highest number of women and men executed for witchcraft, and which recently passed a law allowing abortion up to birth, thinks capital punishment is too cruel.
"She will never walk again."
Given that, as a nurse, the slashes on her wrists were across the wrist and not horizontal, and the drugs she took to overdose were all within the limits of therapeutic ranges, I believe she thought she'd survive the jump with only minor injuries, perhaps a few broken bones.
"Third, that she had sought extensive treatment for it..."
She admitted herself to the hospital and left voluntarily after three weeks. Sounds more like ticking the box marked "show you sought treatment".
The medical personnel who prescribed the drugs were all in separate provider networks. This means the latter dispensing physicians would not have been able to see that she had been given numerous other prescriptions giving them reason to ask what was going on. As a nurse she would have known this about her state health care system.
Not only does she deserve no sympathy, I'd like to see any deaths which occurred while she was on duty as a labour and delivery nurse investigated. Women who commit serial murders are frequently nurses or healthcare workers. I'm not certain, but I would not be surprised to find that her own children weren't the first she's killed.
Your title for the post is accurate though; you have most definitely gotten the Lindsay Clancy case wrong.
Thanks for this, it’s very interesting, I was going to write about the implications of the case and still probably am but there’s a lot to think about here
Fair play! It's truly rare to a journalist reflect and correct. Well done.
John. You could be right about the drugs. I was on medication for a while some years ago and one of the possible side affects was suicidal ideation. The PIL and my doctor both stressed that if I was getting any suicidal thoughts to immediately stop taking the medication and inform my doctor. Thankfully, no such side affects occurred and the medication did it's job.
You're wrong, very very wrong, but I respect you going against your group because you think you're correct.
The women protesting for her. are insane, almost stereotypically so.
"The first thing here is that Clancy has, evidently, been severely punished for what she did."
Not really.
She strangled three children to death. They weren't sedated so at some point at least two of them knew their mother was badly hurting a sibling. The youngest, 8 months old, obviously wouldn't have been cognisant of what was happening but would certainly have been terribly frightened by the sounds and crying. The middle child, the boy, was found in his father's office in the basement. I can only assume she didn't purposely move his body there so he must have sought safety there while she was strangling his older sister.
Being confined to a wheelchair and women's prison for life is nowhere near what I'd consider to be severely punished for that kind of monstrous crime. She should be executed but ironically the state with the highest number of women and men executed for witchcraft, and which recently passed a law allowing abortion up to birth, thinks capital punishment is too cruel.
"She will never walk again."
Given that, as a nurse, the slashes on her wrists were across the wrist and not horizontal, and the drugs she took to overdose were all within the limits of therapeutic ranges, I believe she thought she'd survive the jump with only minor injuries, perhaps a few broken bones.
"Third, that she had sought extensive treatment for it..."
She admitted herself to the hospital and left voluntarily after three weeks. Sounds more like ticking the box marked "show you sought treatment".
The medical personnel who prescribed the drugs were all in separate provider networks. This means the latter dispensing physicians would not have been able to see that she had been given numerous other prescriptions giving them reason to ask what was going on. As a nurse she would have known this about her state health care system.
Not only does she deserve no sympathy, I'd like to see any deaths which occurred while she was on duty as a labour and delivery nurse investigated. Women who commit serial murders are frequently nurses or healthcare workers. I'm not certain, but I would not be surprised to find that her own children weren't the first she's killed.
Your title for the post is accurate though; you have most definitely gotten the Lindsay Clancy case wrong.