Why are people more sympathetic to Lindsay Clancy than Andrea Yates? (Child death mentioned)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How sad to have a life, a pretty nice life it seems, and for it to vanish in a blink. I feel so terrible for the grandparents and extended family and friends too. How tragic the whole thing. So many lives destroyed.

I feel bad for her, too.

I feel bad for Cora, Dawson, and Callan.

Yup. How horrifying and painful their last moments are

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Had dinner with a friend who has worked for decades in the PPD field and she is confident Clancy was psychotic, with no sense of right or wrong or reality when she did this - it can happen in an instant and is often precipitated by new meds.

Your anonymous friend on this anonymous message board does not get any more weight to his/her opinion than anyone else.

What's your point? Nobody's saying she should. Goodness me.

Then why did you describe her supposed background? We’re all just opinions here.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Had dinner with a friend who has worked for decades in the PPD field and she is confident Clancy was psychotic, with no sense of right or wrong or reality when she did this - it can happen in an instant and is often precipitated by new meds.

Your anonymous friend on this anonymous message board does not get any more weight to his/her opinion than anyone else.

What's your point? Nobody's saying she should. Goodness me.

Then why did you describe her supposed background? We’re all just opinions here.

Because she has experience dealing with these issues - which is relevant.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Had dinner with a friend who has worked for decades in the PPD field and she is confident Clancy was psychotic, with no sense of right or wrong or reality when she did this - it can happen in an instant and is often precipitated by new meds.

But this didn't happen "in an instant." It was HOURS prior to the murders that she used google maps to see how far away the restaurant was, and also called CVS to verify they did not have the specific medication.

Wait, she called CVS to ascertain the medicine wasn't there, then told her husband to get it knowing he'd be delayed? The prosecution never said that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Had dinner with a friend who has worked for decades in the PPD field and she is confident Clancy was psychotic, with no sense of right or wrong or reality when she did this - it can happen in an instant and is often precipitated by new meds.

Your anonymous friend on this anonymous message board does not get any more weight to his/her opinion than anyone else.

What's your point? Nobody's saying she should. Goodness me.

Then why did you describe her supposed background? We’re all just opinions here.

Because she has experience dealing with these issues - which is relevant.

I don’t believe you. I bet you’re in Lindsay’s army of angels FB group.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Had dinner with a friend who has worked for decades in the PPD field and she is confident Clancy was psychotic, with no sense of right or wrong or reality when she did this - it can happen in an instant and is often precipitated by new meds.

Your anonymous friend on this anonymous message board does not get any more weight to his/her opinion than anyone else.

What's your point? Nobody's saying she should. Goodness me.

Then why did you describe her supposed background? We’re all just opinions here.

Because she has experience dealing with these issues - which is relevant.

I don’t believe you. I bet you’re in Lindsay’s army of angels FB group.

OK. You can believe whatever you like. Why are you arguing about this?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How sad to have a life, a pretty nice life it seems, and for it to vanish in a blink. I feel so terrible for the grandparents and extended family and friends too. How tragic the whole thing. So many lives destroyed.

I feel bad for her, too.

I feel bad for Cora, Dawson, and Callan.

We truly lack understanding of severe mental illness.

Weird response.
We hold others accountable when they do bad things and are mentally ill. Why would she be the exception?

I have been saying this from the beginning, was Jeffrey Dahmer mentally stable? Ted Bundy? What about most of the school shooters, were they all stable mentally? No, as a matter of fact many of them were also on psych meds, like Lindsay, but we crucified these young mentally ill kids. How about all the other potentially mentally ill mothers who killed their kids who are now serving life sentences in general pop prisons? What about them? We gotta stop with the #iamlindsay crap, no, no you are not. Like school shootings, we’re going to end up with copycat crimes thanks to the media coverage and the misplaced empathy. If we as a society have never related to, or empathized with murderers, even mentally ill ones, we aren’t going to start now. Hell no.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How sad to have a life, a pretty nice life it seems, and for it to vanish in a blink. I feel so terrible for the grandparents and extended family and friends too. How tragic the whole thing. So many lives destroyed.

I feel bad for her, too.

I feel bad for Cora, Dawson, and Callan.

We truly lack understanding of severe mental illness.

Weird response.
We hold others accountable when they do bad things and are mentally ill. Why would she be the exception?

I have been saying this from the beginning, was Jeffrey Dahmer mentally stable? Ted Bundy? What about most of the school shooters, were they all stable mentally? No, as a matter of fact many of them were also on psych meds, like Lindsay, but we crucified these young mentally ill kids. How about all the other potentially mentally ill mothers who killed their kids who are now serving life sentences in general pop prisons? What about them? We gotta stop with the #iamlindsay crap, no, no you are not. Like school shootings, we’re going to end up with copycat crimes thanks to the media coverage and the misplaced empathy. If we as a society have never related to, or empathized with murderers, even mentally ill ones, we aren’t going to start now. Hell no.

Jeffrey Dahmer was a serial killer who embalmed and disemboweled people and hid them in his freezer. He had a long history of asocial and frightening behavior. This woman was a highly esteemed labor nurse with no criminal record. Postpartum psychosis is real.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How sad to have a life, a pretty nice life it seems, and for it to vanish in a blink. I feel so terrible for the grandparents and extended family and friends too. How tragic the whole thing. So many lives destroyed.

I feel bad for her, too.

I feel bad for Cora, Dawson, and Callan.

We truly lack understanding of severe mental illness.

Weird response.
We hold others accountable when they do bad things and are mentally ill. Why would she be the exception?

I have been saying this from the beginning, was Jeffrey Dahmer mentally stable? Ted Bundy? What about most of the school shooters, were they all stable mentally? No, as a matter of fact many of them were also on psych meds, like Lindsay, but we crucified these young mentally ill kids. How about all the other potentially mentally ill mothers who killed their kids who are now serving life sentences in general pop prisons? What about them? We gotta stop with the #iamlindsay crap, no, no you are not. Like school shootings, we’re going to end up with copycat crimes thanks to the media coverage and the misplaced empathy. If we as a society have never related to, or empathized with murderers, even mentally ill ones, we aren’t going to start now. Hell no.

By supporting Lindsay we are potentially opening a huge can of worms, mental illness doesn’t only affect Lindsay. God, if all the prisoners in this country had previous access to mental healthcare and diagnosis, I guess they’d be free, because I am sure a huge percentage of violent criminals have some mental illness. I am sure someone out there can empathize with Jeffrey Dahmer or school shooters but if you verbalized that support you’d be shunned, maybe even arrested. Oh but Lindsey, the baby killer x3, I can definitely relate to her, I could easily be a baby killer too. Get the f$&@ out!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How sad to have a life, a pretty nice life it seems, and for it to vanish in a blink. I feel so terrible for the grandparents and extended family and friends too. How tragic the whole thing. So many lives destroyed.

I feel bad for her, too.

I feel bad for Cora, Dawson, and Callan.

We truly lack understanding of severe mental illness.

Weird response.
We hold others accountable when they do bad things and are mentally ill. Why would she be the exception?

I have been saying this from the beginning, was Jeffrey Dahmer mentally stable? Ted Bundy? What about most of the school shooters, were they all stable mentally? No, as a matter of fact many of them were also on psych meds, like Lindsay, but we crucified these young mentally ill kids. How about all the other potentially mentally ill mothers who killed their kids who are now serving life sentences in general pop prisons? What about them? We gotta stop with the #iamlindsay crap, no, no you are not. Like school shootings, we’re going to end up with copycat crimes thanks to the media coverage and the misplaced empathy. If we as a society have never related to, or empathized with murderers, even mentally ill ones, we aren’t going to start now. Hell no.

Jeffrey Dahmer was a serial killer who embalmed and disemboweled people and hid them in his freezer. He had a long history of asocial and frightening behavior. This woman was a highly esteemed labor nurse with no criminal record. Postpartum psychosis is real.

Doesn’t matter, that was then, this is now. Jeffrey Dahmer seemed normal at one time too, until he wasn’t.

[Anonymous]

I feel like two things can be true here: She indeed committed a horrible terrible crime. Unthinkable. Horrific.
She could also have been unaware of what she was doing and psychotic.
Why can't both things exist?

[Anonymous]

Lindsay Clancy is no better than Dahmer, or Nikolas Cruz, or any school shooter for that matter, she’s no better than any mom in history who killed their kids. She is in the club now. After she chose to strangle her kids with exercise bands and other horrific acts, she became a murderer. This wasn’t self defense. We have standards and rules in society, she is no longer one of us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel like two things can be true here: She indeed committed a horrible terrible crime. Unthinkable. Horrific.
She could also have been unaware of what she was doing and psychotic.
Why can't both things exist?

They can. But the issue comes in when people think she shouldn’t be held accountable for what she did because she was mentally ill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel like two things can be true here: She indeed committed a horrible terrible crime. Unthinkable. Horrific.
She could also have been unaware of what she was doing and psychotic.
Why can't both things exist?

Both things CAN exist. I don't think anyone is arguing that Andrea Yates did not commit an unthinkable crime (I hope not). She committed an unthinkable crime. She was unaware and psychotic. Same for this chick too. I'm not going to parade around saying "#iamlindsey" or whatever, because she committed an unthinkable crime and murdered her children whereas I did not, so, no, I am not the same as her. But I think she probably committed these murders while having a psychotic episode and was not aware of her actions, and this is precisely why we have "Not guilty by reason of insanity".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel like two things can be true here: She indeed committed a horrible terrible crime. Unthinkable. Horrific.
She could also have been unaware of what she was doing and psychotic.
Why can't both things exist?

Because you see, Lindsay isn’t unique. Many, many murderers are indeed mentally ill, and we never support them. Men who murder can also suffer from severe debilitating mental illness to ya know? And guess what, we either kill them by lethal injection or imprison them for life.