Please give another perspective on the Lindsay Clancy trial. I have two perspectives, one personal and one observed. Seventy years ago, my aunt killed her three small children and tried to kill herself. She had returned home with her children with a frightening health scare. She was sent to a psychiatrist who said to not leave her alone, but she ultimately killed her children.
She was given psychiatric care and, later, moved to another part of the country, where she never had children or contact with children through her job. She was fun and loved to show us some of the rare elements in nature.
On the other hand, a teacher in Colorado was having postpartum depression and was being cared for by well-trained medical professionals in the field. one night, she told her husband that she wanted to kill her two little girls and, soon after, she did. Where are the medical professionals in these two cases? My aunt got the best psychiatric care in early 1950s available to her locally.
The teacher in Colorado was charged with murder and had to watch her husband support the murder charge in court. What about the other people involved? If a mentally ill person states that she intends to kill her children, why is the spouse not calling the police? Why were the doctors not giving proper care in the proper environment? Mental health professionals should have to bear the outcome when these tragedies happen. How about involved health care professionals having at least a reprimand in their files and naturally, suspension of their licenses in the state where the tragedy took place? Why is this an individual issue and not a mental health community issue?
– Susan Osborn