{"id":96828,"date":"2026-09-04T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=96828"},"modified":"2026-09-04T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T09:00:00","slug":"the-global-story-how-the-world-sees-lindsay-clancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=96828","title":{"rendered":"The Global Story – How the world sees Lindsay Clancy"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Available for over a year<\/p>\n

Lindsay Clancy faces first-degree murder charges over the deaths of her three young children. But if her case had happened elsewhere, the charges might have looked very different.<\/p>\n

Clancy\u2019s trial in Massachusetts has captured international attention. It has divided public opinion and ignited debate over how the US prosecutes cases involving mothers who kill their children \u2014 and the charges brought against them.<\/p>\n

Other countries, including the UK, Canada and Australia, have specific statutes that allow mothers to be charged with infanticide \u2014 a conviction that\u2019s more lenient than murder and often results in mental health treatment rather than prison time. So why is US law different?<\/p>\n

The Global Story\u2019s Asma Khalid speaks with Dr Karen Brennan, a senior lecturer in law at the University of Essex, to discuss what the Lindsay Clancy case reveals about how American law understands motherhood, mental illness and criminal responsibility. <\/p>\n

(Photo: Lindsay Clancy, with long straight dark brown hair, looks to her lawyer Kevin Reddington, on the day the jury in her murder trial determined that they cannot reach a verdict, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, US, 1 September, 2026. Credit: Greg Derr\/Reuters)<\/p>\n

Producer: Xandra Ellin, Cat Farnsworth and Aron Keller <\/p>\n

Digital producer: Charlie Firth<\/p>\n

Sound engineer: Travis Evans<\/p>\n

Editor: Martine Powers<\/p>\n

Senior news editor: China Collins<\/p>\n

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