US President Donald Trump has said he will not intervene in the case of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts woman accused of killing her three young children.
Clancy, 36, faces three counts of first-degree murder in connection with the January 2023 deaths of her children — five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson and eight-month-old Callan.
Trump addressed the case on Sunday when asked whether he would consider pardoning Clancy, after her lawyer publicly appealed to the president to intervene.
“It’s a very sad situation,” Trump said.
“There is no winner there. There is no win no matter what you do. Three children are dead. So, I don’t know. It’s actually a state situation, you know, not a federal.”
Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, had urged Trump last week to pardon his client, while acknowledging that the president does not have the authority to pardon someone convicted of a state crime.
Trump said the case should instead be handled at the state level and described Reddington as a “very good attorney.”
“He’s a good attorney. I’ve heard from other people he’s a very good attorney,” Trump said.
“I hope they can work it out. That’s something they have to work out … There is no win there.”
Clancy’s defence has argued that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis, a severe psychiatric condition that can cause a person to lose contact with reality following childbirth.
After the deaths of her children, Clancy attempted suicide and sustained injuries that left her paralysed.
Her first trial ended in a mistrial earlier this month after jurors were unable to reach a unanimous verdict following a week of deliberations.
The jury was reportedly divided 11-1, with 11 jurors favouring an acquittal on the grounds that Clancy was not criminally responsible for the killings.
