For those of us who’ve been forced into following the Lindsay Clancy trial, the question didn’t seem to be if the mother’s case would present a moral contagion, but when the contagion would hit.
The answer apparently is, sooner than we would have thought.
In Durham County Superior Court in North Carolina, attorneys for a 41-year-old mother who killed her child informed the court they intend to use an insanity plea based on “postpartum psychosis.”
And, in a statement to WRAL-TV, the attorney for the mother drew specific parallels between her client’s case and that of Clancy.
Andrea Faust faces murder and attempted murder charges after she killed her 3-year-old and tried to kill her 2-year-old. She was found incapable of proceeding to trial after two suicide attempts and evidence she was planning another behind bars.