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Lindsay Clancy‘s attorney continues advocating for postpartum psychosis awareness.
In a sit-down interview with CBS Mornings on Wednesday, Kevin Reddington spoke to Gayle King and Norah O’Donnell about his client’s controversial case.
During their chat, Gayle told him:
“If there’s anything that this case has done, Kevin, for a lot of women … we’ve heard about postpartum depression, but many women were not familiar with postpartum psychosis. And they’re looking this very differently. You know, I’ve heard people say, ‘She was evil. No one is thinking about what happened to these three young children.’ And I look at it and I think people don’t understand about postpartum psychosis, [but] this is a real thing. We’ve talked to people here at CBS Mornings who have said, “I know what she experienced. I too heard voices. I too did something that I thought was extreme.’ Are you hoping that this will change the conversation in this country about postpartum psychosis?”
Kevin replied:
“Absolutely. We [as a society] do not understand it. And it’s so easy for people to say, ‘Oh, come on, you don’t hear voices. You’re making that up. You’re lying. You’re evil.'”
And why is it easier for people to go that route instead of one that involves thorough care? To help in preventing tragedies like this to ever happen again? Kevin says:
“Because it’s easier to punish someone. It would be so easy for a lot of people if we could just put Lindsay in jail and say, ‘This is terrible. She’s evil and guilty.'”
But what about the children? What about justice for them? He explains:
“No one is discounting the horrific loss of those kids, let alone Lindsay Clancy, who is well aware and lives with that every day. No one is discounting those children in reference to postpartum psychosis.”
Kevin argues true justice comes in raising awareness and ensuring better medical and psychiatric treatment so we as a society can prevent horrific cases like this in the future. He says there’s a real lack of proper medical care and treatment for women in this country, especially in the postpartum period and thereafter, explaining:
“… the way we treat pregnant women that have babies, that have psychosis, that have an urge knowing that if they say to their doctor ‘I have these horrible thoughts’ they’re going to call the police, they’re going to lose their baby … [that] doesn’t happen in Europe.”
Gayle even mentioned how Lindsay’s own mother-in-law, the grandmother of the children, seemed to understand what was going on:
“It was telling that [Lindsay’s] mother-in-law testified in her favor.”
Watch for yourself:
As we’ve been saying, the internet is divided.
Both sides want justice, but both have different ideas about how the law should go about it. Where do you stand? Do you think Lindsay should go to jail or is it better to put her in a state psychiatric hospital and for our country as a whole to continue learning about postpartum psychosis so we can help both mothers and children — and ultimately family units in general — in the future?
Let us know what you think in the comments (below)!
To learn more about postpartum depression and psychosis, CLICK HERE.
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