Add The New York Post on Google Lindsay Clancy’s former co-worker Margaret Hamp recounted for jurors Monday how Clancy cried when Hamp told her of the case of Andrea Yates, who drowned her five kids.
Hamp said she mentioned the Yates case to Clancy at work, when a pregnant woman came into the hospital wanting to kill herself.
Lindsay Clancy at trial Monday. AP Lindsay Clancy with her children Dawson, left, Callan, center, and Cora, right, in late November 2022, two months before she strangled them all. Follow The Post’s live updates on the Lindsay Clancy trial
“I explained [Yates] to her, and [Lindsay] cried and said, ‘How could a mother hurt her children?’ ” Hamp recalled.
Yates killed her children in 2001. She was initially found guilty at a first trial, but the conviction was overturned, and she was found not guilty by reason of insanity at a second trial in 2006.
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