Lindsay Clancy transferred to Tewksbury Hospital, according to court records and her attorney

Lindsay Clancy, the Duxbury woman who allegedly killed her three young children in January, is now a patient at the Tewksbury Hospital, according to court documents and her attorney.Facebook

Lindsay M. Clancy, the Duxbury woman who allegedly killed her three young children in the family’s home and tried to end her own life, is now a patient at Tewksbury Hospital, where doctors believe she needs extended mental health care, according to court records, her lawyer, and prosecutors.

Clancy, 32, is accused of strangling her 5-year-old daughter Cora, 3-year-old son Dawson, and 7-month old son Callan in the basement before cutting herself and jumping out of a second-floor window at the family’s home on Jan. 24.

She was found in the backyard by her husband, Patrick. Patrick Clancy then found the couple’s children in the basement, where the older children were pronounced dead. Callan was rushed to Boston Children’s Hospital where he was kept on life support and pronounced dead a few days later.

Lindsay Clancy was lying in a bed at Brigham and Women’s Hospital on Feb. 7 when she pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder charges. Her defense attorney, Kevin J. Reddington, said then that she was paralyzed from the waist down from the jump from the window.

Lindsay Clancy was arraigned in February via Zoom from the Boston hospital where she was recovering from self-inflicted wounds and injuries she sustained after jumping from the second floor of her family’s Duxbury home on Jan. 24. (Plymouth District Court)Plymouth District Court

Clancy was transferred to Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital by March 23, and has since been sent to the Tewksbury facility, according to court records.

Doctors at the hospital, which is run by the state Department of Mental Health, indicated last week they were evaluating Clancy’s mental health and wanted more time to assess her, according to records in Plymouth District Court.

A hearing was to be held in Lowell District Court at the mental health department’s request, but it was not clear Monday it had taken place. The next court date for the Plymouth courthouse, where Clancy is charged criminally, has been delayed until July 25, suggesting the other hearing has been held, records show.

Reddington confirmed his client was at the Tewksbury hospital but was not immediately available for a more detailed conversation.

He previously said Clancy was suffering from postpartum depression or psychosis and had been improperly prescribed multiple medications for anxiety mood disorder and psychosis and should be in a hospital.

But Plymouth District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz’s office contends Clancy should be in jail awaiting trial. They allege she carefully plotted to kill her children and had asked Patrick Clancy to pick up food from a restaurant in Plymouth so she had enough time alone to kill the children.

Stephen J. Weymouth, a veteran Boston criminal defense lawyer who is not part of the Clancy case, said the time Clancy spends at the state hospital could yield significant evidence for the trial, particularly since Reddington has signaled he may use an insanity defense.

“The doctors at the hospital could very well conclude that what was going on in her life after the birth of her last child — before this horrible incident happened — that the medication she was taking, how they might have worked in conjunction with each other, completely clouded her vision, her judgment, her ability to tell the difference between right and wrong,’' Weymouth said.

Correction: Due to a reporting error, an earlier version of this story misstated the name of the hospital where Lindsay Clancy is being treated. It is Tewksbury Hospital.