What went wrong with the triple infanticide by mother in 2023 aka the Clancy murder case in Massachusetts

A lot! The news reporting about this case was incompetent and atrocious! Very lazy journalism!

Caveat I am not familiar with the details of the case. I did not follow the case very closely.

Here are some of the issues:

• Why did the prosecutor not indict the husband as well? What did the husband know and what did he do about it? My guess is the prosecutor in this case was a dilettante!
• Was it a postpartum depression or a postpartum psychosis? Which one was confirmed?
• When did the claimed postpartum psychosis first occur in the defendant? Only after the birth of the third child? If it occured after the first child, why did she have two more children?
• It appears an acute postpartum psychosis (was it acute or chronic ) usually occurs within the first two weeks of child birth. The youngest child of Clancy was 8 months old.
• What kind of suicide attempt was it that the defendant committed? Very few news reports mentioned this at all that she cut her wrists and jumped out of the window after the infanticide.

I think, the news media did a very lousy job reporting about this triple homicide. Caveat I read only a few articles.

How likely is it that a mother with acute postpartum psychosis kills her children?

"Research estimates that untreated postpartum psychosis is associated with an approximately 4% risk or rate of infanticide.

Key Facts and Statistics
Frequency of the illness: Postpartum psychosis is a rare medical emergency that affects about 1 to 2 out of every 1,000 women after childbirth. ..." (Google Search)

Do mothers with acute postpartum depression kill her children and then commit suicide?

"Mothers who harm their children and attempt or commit suicide are typically suffering from postpartum psychosis, rather than acute postpartum depression alone. 

While severe, acute postpartum depression involves deep sadness, exhaustion, and sometimes suicidal thoughts, a mother generally maintains her grip on reality." (Google Search)