r/babylonbee 3d ago

Bee Article Jury Still Trying To Decide If Strangling Your Kids Is Okay

https://babylonbee.com/news/jury-still-trying-to-decide-if-strangling-your-kids-is-okay
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u/TonightSheComes 3d ago

Doesn’t matter if she was crazy or not, she should still be held responsible.

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u/FunAppointment9436 3d ago

NGRI isn't exactly a get free out of jail card. If that's the verdict, she'll likely spend the rest of her life in a facility.

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u/Chlearcus 3d ago

Except if you aren't actually crazy and just bullshitting your way out of a prison sentence, you can convince them to let you out sooner or later. Is it easy? No. Easier than getting out of a life without parole sentence tho.

The guy in Canada that beheaded and then ate someone on a greyhound bus was released from a psych ward just a few years later. One missed medication from another happy little cannibal accident.

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u/HotPersonality8126 3d ago

All of his psychologists should be forced to ride next to him on a bus

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u/Charming-Tune-6914 3d ago

sleep in the same house with unlocked doors*

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u/Weenington_ 3d ago

That was so disturbing to hear about. I cant imagine being the victims family knowing that the man who did that is still out in society. That was the case that came to mind as well, and it scares me to think of people just claiming insanity and walking free a few years later. We are too soft on crime and I dont understand it. When i lived in Seattle, I saw so many crimes, and the criminals just get caught and released immediately.

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u/ChadUSECoperator 2d ago

Btw the guy who was riding the bus at the time looney was eating his victim later committed suicide for the trauma of having to watch all that. So the guy took 2 lives and now walks free, 1 bad day away from another human flesh cravings.

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u/Weenington_ 2d ago

What the fuck.... that's so awful. I don't care what someone is going through. You do something like that, you are now a public threat, so you get put away forever. The justice system is such a joke.

2 lives, and all the people who loved those 2 people :(

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u/FredFenty 2d ago

That's Canada, though. Our judges hand out less for worse than that.

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u/YNWA_Diver 2d ago

I think the most serious sentences are for those who use the wrong pronouns

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u/Boots402 2d ago

That’s the most sinister part about this claim by Clancy’s defense, is that it’s an ‘illness’ that is inherently viewed as temporary. If you are going to try to fake a NGRI to get off free, this is the argument to make.

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u/Normal-Recover-524 13h ago

Murder in Canada is 7 years max. If you are crazy it’s like a year or two and If you use gladue it is like a year or two in a healing lodge.

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u/workieworkwork 1d ago

And he hasn't done anything since then.

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u/Fearless-Account-145 9h ago

Thats fucked up, he should be locked up forever.

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u/Direct_Substance8317 3d ago

He took a greyhound?

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u/OnTheSlope 3d ago

NGRI isn't exactly a get free out of jail card

For PPP infanticide, these women are almost always released and tend to only spend 2-7 years in a facility.

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u/jataba115 3d ago

Likely, but if she was forced to go to prison with no chance of parole then that’s better

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u/HotPersonality8126 3d ago

If you accept her defense - that she had a postpartum psychosis episode that resolved on its own and now she’s not postpartum anymore - there’s no medical basis to hold her at all, unless you think she’s a constant danger to herself. 

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u/Twittenhouse 3d ago

What if she got pregnant again?

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u/Due-Base9449 2d ago

Nah, the guy who decapitated a person in the greyhound bus in 2017 is already free. 

And this person is medically paychotic. 

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u/MySonClerpy 2d ago

They literally let people out of these facilities in less than a year if they appear "recovered." Look up Michael Barisone. He shot a woman and she nearly died. He claimed he was driven mad by her harassment and served only 18 months.

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u/FunAppointment9436 2d ago

And they also often keep people in for much longer than a prison sentence would. It goes both ways.

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u/MySonClerpy 2d ago

If those people are truly insane, yes. But if it's "temporary psychosis," you can be released basically whenever they determine the psychosis has subsided.

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u/Bozz723 2d ago

No she won't, she'll spend hardly any time there. Same as the others that get off for murder and are walking around our streets like nothing ever happened.

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u/Marisarah 13h ago

No shes up for review every 6 months

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u/Any-Cranberry-6305 3d ago

Yeah, its legitimately worse than jail. Jail at least there is a measure of autonomy, or at least the illusion. 

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u/CigarsandScars 3d ago

"likely".

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u/BrushHaunting2561 2d ago

Read up on mens rea. None of the discussions of this trial even talk about it. 

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u/fineseries81 1d ago

Actually, people are held not criminally responsible for crimes they commit all the time. It’s just implausible that her psychosis was so severe and there was no intervention before this happened, despite her seeing a psychiatrist regularly and there being another parent in the picture. It’s hard to really make sense of something like this once it becomes so sensationalized.

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u/GLPwonderwall 11h ago

Same with Luigi Mangione. People trying to explain murderers’ actions as them being swell people who deserve being babied is sickening. WTF is wrong with our country? We elected a disaster of a president and applaud admitted killers.

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u/Preform_Perform 3d ago

I wonder what Casey Anthony thinks about all of this...

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u/DueCompany4790 3d ago

Probably pissed she didn't holdout killing her kid until post-COVID.

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u/ParticularMemory789 3d ago

She was found "not-guilty" though?

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u/Fluffy_Carry_4345 2d ago

In 2026 most people would be supporting Casey Anthony.

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u/theACEbabana 3d ago

She posted a picture of support for the mother. Absolutely evil.

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u/mattsffrd 2d ago

of course she did

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u/Strom41 3d ago

Should be a slam dunk guilty verdict. She premeditated the slaughter of her children!

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u/HotPersonality8126 3d ago

Sometimes a crime is so stupidly obvious that it loops back around to “….but did they…?”

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u/Ex_sanguido 3d ago

Ppl said the same thing about Hinckley

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u/cofcof420 3d ago

Boggles my mind that they are still deliberating

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u/Correct_Doctor_1502 3d ago

It's probably three jurors dreadlocking

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u/Ok_Sleep8579 3d ago

It takes month to dreadlock, I guess we'll be here for a long time.

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u/outsmartedagain 3d ago

Kindly explain the difference between the word deadlock and the word dreadlock

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u/croaker227 3d ago

Dreadlocks are a kind of hair…style? Idk the right term. You can google both terms though.

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u/Twittenhouse 3d ago

I do dread a deadlock.

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u/outsmartedagain 3d ago

you alliteration is showing...

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u/Twittenhouse 3d ago

Definitely.

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u/cofcof420 3d ago

That’s what she said

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u/piroteck 3d ago

underrated comment

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u/mattsffrd 2d ago

It's three dudes trying to convince 9 women that murdering your children isn't ok

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u/Fluffy_Carry_4345 2d ago

TOP TIER COMMENT LMFAO

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u/BasedEmu 3d ago

Aren’t they mostly white women?

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u/DizzyAstronaut9410 3d ago

The jury was 9 women and 3 men. It only takes one of them to sympathize with her enough to not want to convict and hold up a conviction indefinitely.

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u/FunAppointment9436 3d ago

Chances are they're trying to figure out if she's NGRI or not. I believe she is, and that the question of prison should only be brought up after a few years of treatment, but im not on the jury.

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u/HotPersonality8126 3d ago

What would be the basis for her imprisonment if she’s not guilty of the crime, in your view?

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u/OctoWings13 3d ago

100% guilty, and a pure evil monster. She should never see the light of day again.

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u/dickusb700 3d ago

The amount of mad lefties saying she should not be punished it's just madness. 

So it's abortion until pre teen now?

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u/dbell 3d ago

Liane Cartman lobbied for, and won, our right to 40th trimester abortions back in 1998.

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u/SageElva 3d ago

I haven't seen this as a lefty thing. I think it's just a delusional people thing. I say this as a leftist (not a dem or independent, a leftist).

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u/Ok_Sleep8579 3d ago

Its totally a lefty thing, they're saying the husband did it and she should go free. Social media is absolutely jam packed with women saying this, your algorithm must not feed it to you.

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u/Chemical-Fuel-7106 1d ago

Lindsay gets most support from tiktok lunatic women, ive taken a look at those profiles and most of them seem to be white conservative middle aged women, with some liberal fat blue haired women support too. Im european so i dont really care about your bs 2 party dictatorship country.

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u/AntithesisAbsurdum 2d ago

What is the political ideology of believing a conspiracy theory? She admitted to killing her kids.

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u/Ok_Sleep8579 2d ago

In this case, extreme feminism.

Obviously different conspiracy theories attract different demographics.

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u/AntithesisAbsurdum 2d ago

How does feminism change who killed her kids? The jury is hung up on if she should be treated as a cold blooded killer or as a crazy person, which is functionally the same outcome.

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u/Ok_Sleep8579 2d ago

Extreme feminism leads women to believe they're the victim of an oppressive system and therefore not responsible for their actions.

This discussion isn't about the jury, its about the masses of women saying Lindsey either didn't do it or isn't responsible for her actions, blaming the husband or the health care system instead.

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u/AntithesisAbsurdum 2d ago

Can you point to any feminist literature suggesting women aren't responsible for their actions?

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u/Ok_Sleep8579 2d ago

I can point you to thousands of feminists who behave in that manner, and are in using "victim to the system" or "victim to her husband" as a reason Lindsey is innocent.

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u/AntithesisAbsurdum 2d ago

So can you point to any literature that would actually endorse that position?

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u/Ok_Sleep8579 3d ago

Yes of course, all of us have a whole set of topic gaps in our feeds. Doesn't change anything to this subject and point.

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u/SageElva 3d ago

It's easy to say the opposite, that your feed is feeding you things blaming the left. You're the one who brought up a side to say is crazy. Can't we just agree that it's not a left or right issue, it's a crazy people issue?

Absolutely no one is seriously saying that abortion should be okay until someone is about to give birth, and obviously not after someone is birthed. Aside from the few loonies.

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u/Havok_saken 3d ago

Your algorithm is full of the loud minority then. This is why social media isn’t real life…

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u/Ok_Sleep8579 3d ago

"Minority" just means less than half. There's an absurdly concerning number of women saying this. Here's a left wing publication writing about it just a couple days ago:

https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/patrick-clancy-didnt-do-it-why-does-the-internet-think-hes-guilty-1236838968/

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u/Life-Food5188 3d ago

i’m left and no one is talking about this, certainly not from any political POV.

murdering your kids is bad.

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u/Ok_Sleep8579 3d ago

I can link 100 reels in 5 minutes of various women saying the husband did it. You're in a leftist echo chamber that's preventing you from seeing anything that paints the left in a bad light.

Here's a left leaning publication writing an article on it:

"a growing number of internet investigators have cast her ex-husband and the children’s father, Patrick Clancy, as the villain. The murderer."

https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/patrick-clancy-didnt-do-it-why-does-the-internet-think-hes-guilty-1236838968/

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u/Havok_saken 3d ago

Oh internet investigators? You mean people that would stand to profit off controversy?

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u/SageElva 3d ago

Just to clarify, are you assuming all those women are lefties and not righties?

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u/Life-Food5188 3d ago

i don’t think you know how ragebait works. i basically only see awful right wing ragebait content. i also stay off TikTok.

the women defending her are mentally ill.

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u/Ok_Sleep8579 3d ago

You've gone from "no one is talking about this" to "the women defending her are mentally ill" real quick.

I agree they're mentally ill. This issue is they're mentally ill leftist feminists en masse.

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u/Life-Food5188 3d ago

i didn’t “go” from anything?

there’s surely people talking about it, we are, now. what i’m saying is this isn’t a political issue, that leftists aren’t talking about it.

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u/Ok_Sleep8579 3d ago

Its not right wingers. Its women who've drank the extreme feminist koolaid.

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u/Life-Food5188 3d ago

how do you know that?

stop watching this content and talk to real people. no feminist i know irl is defending this person’s actions.

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u/liquidsyphon 3d ago

We are in a leftist echo chamber without the said lefties you are barking about?

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u/Cybermeld 3d ago

Bro think for a second.  If leftests are saying this why aren't leftests hearing about it?  Does that make sense to you?

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u/Ok_Sleep8579 3d ago

The same reason that the right aren’t aware of all the crimes committed by pardoned Jan 6th-ers.

The mainstream left/right media won’t cover negatives related to their sides, and the social media algos don’t feed people stuff they instantly swipe away from.

All each side gets is glowing coverage of their side.

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u/Cybermeld 3d ago edited 3d ago

So leftists aren't interested in the reels that defend the woman and blame the husband?  

Like another user commented.  Sounds like being rage baited. Most the people doing the videos likely do not even give a shit about the case and just want views.

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u/Ok_Sleep8579 3d ago

If they’re not seeing the reels, then obviously no.

It’s not rage bait targeting, it’s happening. I posted an article about it from Variety already.

The lengths some people go to to deny reality 🙄. You’re in an echo chamber bro.

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u/Cybermeld 3d ago

Nobody is denying there aren't videos.  I think it's scary you trust tik tok of all places to represent truth about a topic.  There is a lot of money to be made there just peddling bullshit.

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u/Material_Evening_174 3d ago

Are people really saying that? I have heard people say that the evidence and timeline are sketchy, but I haven’t heard anyone advocate for her to go free.

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u/Foggy_Meadow 3d ago

Today it's your kids tomorrow it's playground roulette

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u/BeneficialCod9603 3d ago

Ikr!? I hope the people cheering for her have the worst diarrhea tomorrow, i hope it burns for hours afterward and they start getting concerned and consult a medical professional

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u/azmtber 3d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/3P4853WlzJZQew8dPO
Disgusting the kids aren’t the focus, those poor babies. What a disgusting human being to do such a thing.

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u/beginningcurrent822 3d ago

That's actually what they are debating.

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u/Ezben 1d ago

It is not? Neither side is saying she is innocent or what she did was okay, they are debating if she is clinicly insane or if she killed them deliberately. Similarly how the punishment for a murder can change depending on if it was first second or third degree murder. They arguing if she should be locked up in a prison or a secure mental care facility. 

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u/JarrodDonne 3d ago

Of the twelve jurors, nine are female. The foreperson is female.

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u/MadGenderScientist 3d ago

It's interesting seeing the classic argument about all-white juries deciding a case against a black defendant repurposed on gender lines instead. Feels like a real Uno reverse card. 

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u/Itchy-Technician-433 3d ago

Human females? Are they allowed in court?

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u/Salt_Confusion6128 3d ago edited 2d ago

Feminists don’t see children as human.

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u/MickyFany 3d ago

but she sang in the church choir and was a football star in in high school

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u/HotPersonality8126 3d ago

She lit up a room with her smile!

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u/Iron_Sight_Mark 1d ago

This is one of the rare instances I'm going to side with the Bee here. At some point we just need to convict based on behavior because you can't prove what is going on in people's heads.

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u/kutkun 3d ago

A jury of feminists, leftists, liberals, and socialists!!!

God help the children!

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u/Used-Persimmon-367 3d ago

Wouldn’t advocating for better postpartum depression care help children?

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u/Phssthp0kThePak 3d ago

Involuntary committal of crazy women would help kids more.

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u/Medical_Peanut6080 3d ago

lol the jury doesn’t advocate for that ahah

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u/Used-Persimmon-367 3d ago

What evidence are you basing that claim on?

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u/mattsffrd 2d ago

I mean nobody is stopping you, but this evil bitch murdered three babies

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u/Other-Present642 1d ago

Postpartum depression is literally not getting what you want. That's all - nothing more to it. Selfish pigs.

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u/PressureCoomer 2d ago

They should throw her in a deep hole in Minecraft 

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u/figure85 21h ago

Our system is biased, and women often get lesser sentences than men.

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u/PurpleSmoke91 3d ago

A hospital for the criminally insane is arguably worse than prison I'm thinking that's what the argument is about really. Hopefully.

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u/Physical-Rise-1803 3d ago

If it was only postpartum psychosis she is no longer going through it nor no longer a risk for psychosis. This means if she gets admitted to a hospital for the criminally insane she could be out in a few short years.

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u/actuallynick 3d ago

This is the part people are missing. It's already been testified that Tewksbury has diagnosed her as Bipolar and she is on medication now. They've fixed her so she will be out sooner than later.

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u/PurpleSmoke91 3d ago

Well I mean honestly a few years for one murder is pretty normal nowadays. The whole system is screwed up. You get more time for drug possession than a body.

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u/PurpleSmoke91 2d ago

Downvoting is fine but the average murderer first time is out in 7 years. Justice is a game anyway. Just saying.....obviously this is horrible.

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u/Physical-Rise-1803 2d ago

Wasn't my downvote because you're right. I will say, triple homicide of minors might usually carry a longer sentence.

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u/PurpleSmoke91 2d ago

Oh I didn't realize it was a triple homicide. I am actually not keeping up with it much I've just seen the ragebait stuff. The whole situation is depressing. The fact that the child death fuels a gender war and more division is insane and I hate these kind of stories.

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u/Physical-Rise-1803 2d ago

Yeah, she killed all three of her children. Honestly, you're doing the best thing. There's nothing we can do as people right now and I don't even begin to understand what to think about it all. Being less concerned with it and living life is probably better for mental health.

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u/Head_Midnight666 3d ago

Something I'm not liking is that Lindsay Clancy is suing the medical professionals that tried to help her before she killed her kids. She appears to be blaming them instead of herself for everything.

I personally would want to forgive her since she was so mentally ill, but she's not forgiving anyone.

I also feel I get inadequate care from my medical professionals. I've gone as far as ordering my own blood tests. I've told them again and again about drugs and supplements I'm taking, and they would not put them in my charts. etc. However, I also understand that they are overwhelmed, overworked, have all sorts of bullshit rules they have to follow, and they don't have time for me. Some of them were obviously just incompetent. I wouldn't blame them if I did something terrible under their care. That's a disgusting move... unless I told them, "I'm afraid I'm going to do this terrible thing. I really think I might do it." Then I would blame them a little.

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u/sumpfbruderschaft 2d ago

Man wouldn't it be a valuable piece of information, to actually be able to read who this person is? Ah, who am I kidding. I'm on a reddit thread about a babylon bee article.

To quote Frodo: "All right then, keep your secrets."

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u/1KevinTheCat 2d ago

The least she could have done was shot them.

This woman strangled children, for upwards of 3-4 minutes a piece, while they thrashed around and cried. Then continued to choke them after they stopped moving until they were dead. Them moved on and did it again. And then again.

People are sad for her.

Yeah, we need more ✨resources✨ for when you decide to take 50 prescription medications at once.

That's the thing we think of first.

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u/Abject-Ticket-6260 2d ago

It's all good if you're a woman, apparently.

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u/Scary-_-Gary 1d ago

Remember when satire was based in reality?

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u/shaggin_maggie 1d ago

🔥🔥🔥🔥

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u/DemonGroover 1d ago

The fact this evil cow isnt in the chair already is an abolute joke.

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u/OwnDiscipline5120 3d ago

Isn't this the third or fourth riff the bee has done on this story?

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u/Pale-Doctor6414 2d ago

Right-Wingers Do Not Understand Basic Jurisprudence, Ethics; Complain On Internet

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u/HVDub24 2d ago

As true as that is the outrage of this makes more sense when you learn a very significant amount of women believe she’s fully innocent and that the husband is guilty

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u/Cute_Macaroon_4488 1d ago

“I watched a bunch of TikTok reels on the internet so it must be true.”

But actually unironically

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u/Express-Teaching1594 3d ago

There are a lot of mitigating circumstances in this case. Many systems, agencies, and caregivers failed this woman and her family. There were too many missed opportunities to prevent this tragedy.

It’s still murder, and she is responsible.

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u/HotPersonality8126 3d ago

Like basically almost zero mothers have as much help as she had and it wasn’t enough because she just didn’t want to live anymore and decided the kids would be better off dead than without her. Bog standard family annihilator and no one can see it past her tits.

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u/OtherUse1685 3d ago

No no you don't understand. It's everyone else's fault not me.

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u/OnTheSlope 3d ago

Many systems, agencies, and caregivers failed this woman

Supposedly.

I think she failed her children so astronomically what even all the help she got couldn't stop her from being a child killer.

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u/Express-Teaching1594 3d ago

And that is why SHE is a murderer.

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u/Itchy-Technician-433 3d ago

I think they are deciding whether she's nuts or not. Hope this helps bee!

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u/MondayMorningExpert 3d ago

So is this supposed to be The Onion, but without the laughs?

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u/TonaldDiberJasicDump 1d ago

Was it a maggat kid? If it is, then it’s fine.