psychosis

Who is Dimone Fleming? NYC mom with postpartum psychosis found not guilty of 2 sons’ murders amid Lindsay Clancy trial

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Who is Dimone Fleming? NYC mom with postpartum psychosis cleared in sons' deaths (Facebook/Dimone Fleming)

A US mom was found not criminally responsible due to mental disease or defect by a judge in The Bronx for the 2022 murders of her two sons. Dimone Fleming, 26, was suffering from postpartum psychosis when she stabbed her two children, 3-year-old Daishawn Fleming and 11-month-old Octavius Canada, at a Bronx family shelter, the … Read more

Did Lindsay Clancy ‘choose’ to kill her kids? Prosecution’s explosive closing argument challenges psychosis defense

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Lindsay Clancy’s jury is weighing whether postpartum psychosis controlled her actions or whether prosecutors proved she knowingly chose to kill her children.. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool) (Greg Derr/Pool The Patriot Ledge)

The jury in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial began deliberations Thursday after prosecutors argued that she knowingly chose to kill her three children. Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague told jurors there is no dispute that Clancy was mentally ill or that she later tried to kill herself. The key question, she said, is whether Clancy knew … Read more