As usual, here’s what’s not included in this headline.
He has an extensive criminal history & prison stints including multiple felony weapons convictions and drug convictions as well as probation violations in two different states.
All of which was after his deployment to Iraq.
This is Dawson Clancy. He was only 3 years old.
Dawson loved firefighters and trucks. Patrick described him as energetic, funny, and a little boy who loved to push buttons. On the morning of January 24, 2023, Dawson did something big in his tiny world: he dressed himself completely by himself for the first time. Patrick was so proud that he took a picture and sent it to Lindsay.
That same night, Dawson was dead.
Lindsay Clancy took him into the basement and strangled him with an exercise resistance band. Patrick later found Dawson on the floor of his basement office and testified, “I knew he was gone.”
And when we talk about Lindsay’s relationship with Dawson, I think the things she herself wrote and said matter.
When Dawson was 19 months old, Lindsay wrote in a parenting group that he was “the most difficult human I have ever encountered” and said that nearly everything with him felt like a battle. Investigators testified, however, that despite examining the relationship closely, they found no evidence that she had previously abused Dawson.
Later, after Callan was born, Lindsay wrote that she “sort of resent[ed]” her older children because they prevented her from treating Callan like her first baby. She specifically wrote about feeling depressed when Cora and Dawson came home from school and said she wanted to feel love and connection with all of her children.
Those facts don’t tell us everything that was inside Lindsay Clancy’s mind. They shouldn’t be twisted into things the evidence doesn’t prove.
But Dawson deserves to have his story told too.
He wasn’t a diagnosis.
He wasn’t an argument about postpartum mental illness.
He wasn’t an inconvenience or a “difficult human.”
He was a three-year-old little boy who loved firefighters and trucks.
And in this picture, he got to be one. ❤️🚒
Dawson Clancy deserved to grow up. 💙
@Firebrandlolz@gentrywgevers It tells me that she was either being influenced by demons who HATE anything good in this world, like happy children, motherhood, godly marriages, etc. or she murdered her children in cold blood with full understanding of what she was doing—or both.
Respectfully, I disagree that the death penalty doesn’t fit the crime. The crime is strangling the life out of three beautiful children. A person who does that cannot live.
The death penalty, rightly instituted, is less about punishing the perpetrator than it is about justice for society. The blood of these children calls out from the grave. A country simply cannot ignore their cries.
Was she out of her mind when she committed the crime? Maybe so. But that doesn’t change what she did. No one caused her to do it, other than the Devil himself. And we can’t hang him behind the courthouse, more’s the pity.
Swift, sure punishment for such crimes is the only proper response. It avenges the victims, preserves our dignity, and deters similar acts. It is a fundamental requirement of a just society.
That we no long have it is a major cause of our current troubles.
@CaitlinPacific@JeremyDBoreing Because the complexity of this heinous act requires swift, dispassionate justice coupled with mercy. It’s merciful to end her life and just for the innocent victims and for society that she be removed from this earth.
The more nonsensical and obviously absurd a belief is, the more people who hold it (or pretend to) will resist recanting. The potential for humiliation rises in direct proportion to the ridiculousness of what they've publicly swallowed. They see no choice but to double down.
Humility is vital where other people's suffering is concerned. If you haven't personally experienced what another is going through, hold fast to biblical truth, but tread carefully when tempted to level judgment on what you don't understand.
The importance of having compassion toward others in pain is not the sort of thing you want to learn the hard way.