Now that the Lindsay Clancy case just ended in a mistrial and justice is, for the moment, suspended, it’s time to pay special attention to a certain kind of woman, a perfect example of which showed herself while Plymouth County, Massachusetts, District Attorney Timothy Cruz was talking to news media immediately after the trial judge declared the mistrial.
She appeared to be in her 30s, dressed in pink — as Clancy supporters are known to wear — and she stood in camera view, maybe intentionally. The entire time Cruz spoke Friday afternoon, while he acknowledged Clancy’s three young victims, her own children, the woman behind him aggressively shook her head no. When Cruz offered to take questions, the woman yelled out over him. “You only cared when the kids were dead,” she said, sporting sunglasses and a bright pink scarf and purse. “Why don’t you care about the mother?”
That such a woman is permitted to walk the streets unaccosted and maybe even have children of her own is an alarming reality. And she’s not alone. What this trial has revealed, among other dark and disturbing truths, is that they are legion.
They’re all over TikTok. They showed up at the courthouse in solidarity, dripping in pink. They’re proud of it. And they maintain that Clancy is just as much a victim as the three children she strangled, if not even more so.
You only cared when the kids were dead.
Imagine saying that aloud and believing it’s a rational point. There’s no reason a state prosecutor should be concerned about a private family until a crime is committed. That a woman thinks there is is her way of absolving Clancy of agency and responsibility. And she wants to do that because she believes that same notion should apply to herself. That should terrify everyone who knows that lady, especially anyone who has kids.
To be sure, there are many bored women who simply view the Clancy case as entertainment, something for them to consume, ponder, and offer up their own theories based on their deep well of Netflix true-crime watching. They’re no less suspect than the woman above. Three young children are dead. They were left face down on a basement floor after their mother choked the life out of them, one by one, with rubber exercise bands.
If that’s how these people are getting their kicks, and are able to find it in themselves to confidently, publicly side with Clancy, they’re not well. They shouldn’t be left with children. I certainly wouldn’t leave my child with them.
Justice has yet to be served. In the meantime, we certainly learned some things about a specific kind of woman.
