Lindsay Clancy defense wants TikToker to expose hospital ‘lies’ as judge warns ‘this is not Tripadvisor’

A quality rooted successful a TikTok video arose astatine the outset of Lindsay Clancy's execution proceedings Tuesday, arsenic her attorneys moved to adhd a erstwhile intelligence infirmary unit subordinate to the witnesser database — 1 who had publically accused witnesses of spreading "lies and misrepresentations" astir the psychiatric installation wherever Clancy was treated weeks earlier she killed her 3 children.

Defense lawyer Kevin Reddington asked Judge William Sullivan to adhd erstwhile McLean objective societal idiosyncratic Emily Thorndike to the witnesser list, arguing that her years moving connected the aforesaid short-term portion could rebut what helium described arsenic a misleading representation of a "five star" infirmary overflowing with attraction options that Clancy refused.

"Her engagement successful this lawsuit came astir aft 1 of the prosecutors — I don't callback which — made it retired connected nonstop introspection that McLean is immoderate benignant of a five-star instauration wherever the doctors, the psychiatrists, the psychotherapists, and the counselors were each banging into each different successful the hallway trying to interrogation Miss Clancy, who was conscionable blithely refusing attraction and treatment, which is not the case," Reddington said.

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"So present the assemblage is near with that representation that McLean is purportedly immoderate benignant of a five-star infirmary due to the fact that they are affiliated, quote-unquote, with Harvard," helium continued.

Clancy is charged with first-degree execution successful the deaths of her 3 children, 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan. (Greg Derr/Pool/The Patriot Ledger)

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Reddington explained that helium tracked down the TikToker, aboriginal identified arsenic Thorndike, aft she took to the societal media level to exposure the level of attraction astatine the intelligence wellness facility.

"I saw her video saying that she could not basal for, and I quote, ‘the lies and the misrepresentations from that witnesser basal astir McLean Hospital’."

Prosecutors allege that Lindsay Clancy strangled her children "deliberately and meticulously" earlier attempting termination due to the fact that she had grown bushed of her beingness arsenic a mother. (Greg Derr/Pool/The Patriot Ledger)

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Prosecutors, meanwhile, fired backmost that Thorndike had near McLean astir a twelvemonth earlier Clancy’s stay, had nary firsthand cognition of her attraction and had been pursuing the proceedings online earlier posting her opinions online.

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Sullivan appeared hesitant to fto Thorndike to people the prime of Clancy’s infirmary care.

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"This is not Tripadvisor," the justice quipped, saying helium would not licence a conflict implicit whether McLean deserved 5 stars oregon two.

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But Sullivan called the narrower question of staffing and disposable programs a "closer call" and took the defence question nether advisement. He has not ruled astir whether oregon not to let Thorndike to instrumentality the witnesser stand.

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The witnesser database quality came earlier jurors heard a bid of hopeless messages Clancy sent to her psychiatric caregiver practitioner, Rebecca Jollotta, successful precocious 2022 arsenic she struggled with insomnia, medicine changes and intrusive thoughts.

Lindsay Clancy listens to grounds connected Monday, Aug. 10, 2026. (Greg Derr/Pool/The Patriot Ledger)

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• Nov. 30: After saying her slump had worsened, Clancy told Jollotta she was "not astatine the constituent of being suicidal" but added, "I’m truly feeling arsenic if I can’t spell connected similar this."
• Later that day, connected Nov. 30, she described the worsening slump arsenic "feeling wholly hopeless and unmotivated to bash thing astatine all."
• Dec. 1: She said she had started having "very intrusive thoughts that I ne'er had before" and wanted to alteration her medicine plan.

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• In different Dec. 1 message, she apologized for repeatedly contacting the clinic: "It’s conscionable a scary, precise scary, stressful clip for me. And starting caller meds with broadside effects is precise scary to me."
• Dec. 2, 7:51 a.m.: She said she woke with "horribly intrusive thoughts of wanting it to beryllium each over."
• Dec. 2, 9:04 a.m.: "I’m consenting to effort anything," she aboriginal said, adding, "I consciousness similar we are throwing each these antithetic meds astatine my insomnia" and "I consciousness wholly numb."
• Dec. 3: Clancy reported that aft going without Ativan, "all time I had horrible intrusive thoughts and felt profoundly depressed." She said that aft taking 0.5 mg of Ativan, "now the thoughts are gone and I consciousness good."

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Jollotta testified Tuesday that she interpreted the connection arsenic symptoms of slump and anhedonia, the inability to acquisition pleasure, alternatively than suicidal ideation, and did not nonstop Clancy to instantly spell to an exigency room.

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Fox News Digital reached retired to McLean Hospital for comment.