Updated on: August 11, 2026 / 2:46 PM EDT
/ CBS Boston
Lindsay Clancy's murder trial in Massachusetts resumed Tuesday with testimony from Rebecca Jollotta, a second psychiatric nurse practitioner who treated Clancy in 2022.
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Clancy, who turned 36 on Tuesday, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the deaths of her three children, 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan, in their home in Duxbury on Jan. 24, 2023.
Prosecutors, led by assistant district attorney Jennifer Sprague, say she planned the murders. Clancy's attorney Kevin Reddington says she admits killing her children, but she shouldn't be held criminally responsible because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and bipolar disorder.
Rebecca Jollotta, who works at South Shore Health in Weymouth and treated Clancy starting in November 2022, has spent much of Tuesday on the stand.
On cross-examination, Reddington went through the list of prescription drugs that Clancy was provided in the months before she killed her children.
He asked Jollotta if when a woman who has recently had a baby or is within the postpartum range comes to her clinic, it is normal for them to be treated.
"I in no way want to minimize what Lindsay experienced, but it's common for us to treat women who are …" Jollotta said, before Reddington interrupted and was reminded by the judge that only one person should speak at a time.
"Her symptoms were serious and it's not uncommon for me to treat women with serious symptoms in the postpartum period," Jollotta said, completing her answer.
Jollotta said she believed Clancy would be attending an outpatient program at Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island for two weeks in December 2022.
"Did you know that in fact they wouldn't accept her into the postpartum program because of their concern she had been overmedicated by drugs and they wanted to find out?" Reddington asked.
"I can't speak to that," Jollotta answered.
Reddington asked Jollotta if she know that on Dec. 20, 2022, Women and Infants noted that they tried to reach Jollotta but did not receive a call back.
"They never called me. I absolutely would have called them back," Jollotta said.
