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12/09/2026

Governor DeSantis says media launched smear campaign against holdout juror, offers Florida asylum

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis weighed in on the Lindsay Clancy mistrial fallout Friday, accusing media outlets of trying to smear the lone holdout juror after an NBC10 Boston report about his alleged past.

The jury split 11-1 on whether to find Clancy not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect. DeSantis said if the juror is being harassed, Florida would provide asylum.

In my opinion, this is now bigger than the trial - it's about whether we can protect jurors who don't go with the majority.

11/09/2026

What do you remember most about 9/11? 25 years later.

This morning Mayor Mamdani honored the 2,753 lives lost on September 11th and the thousands who died later from illnesses from working on the pile.

He reminded us of what New Yorkers did in the darkness:
- Thousands lining up for hours to donate blood
- People opening their homes to strangers who couldn't get home
- Workers carrying colleagues down hundreds of stairs, then going BACK UP to save others.

His message: "Live lives worthy of the sacrifices they made."

25 years later, what does Never Forget mean to you? 👇

11/09/2026

CLANCY ASKS THE JUDGE TO ENTER A NOT GUILTY AFTER THE MISTRIAL AND BLOCK A RETRIAL

PLYMOUTH, Massachusetts — Lindsay Clancy's lawyer has asked the judge to find her not guilty by lack of criminal responsibility instead of setting a second trial.

Kevin Reddington filed a Rule 25-style motion arguing the Commonwealth did not prove she was criminally responsible when her three children died in January 2023. The filing says 11 of 12 jurors were ready to acquit on that ground before the panel deadlocked last Friday. One juror held out. Juror Nick Dargie has said the holdout would not point to evidence.

The defense says all six forensic experts agreed she had a serious mental illness, even if they disagreed on the label, and that prosecutors still had to show she understood the wrongfulness of her acts or could conform her conduct to the law. Reddington wants Judge William Sullivan to rule the evidence was legally insufficient. If the judge agrees, it would be an acquittal and bar a retry.

A hearing is set for Sept. 29 at 9 a.m. in Plymouth Superior Court. Sullivan can deny the motion and schedule a new trial. Clancy remains on su***de watch, her lawyer has said.

She has been charged, not convicted. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Source: Plymouth Superior Court filing

10/09/2026

An Ohio father pretended to be his 11-year-old daughter on TikTok so he could lure her alleged r*pist to his home — where he sh*t him twice.

Diego Montoya Gonzalez, 20, was sh*t by dad Malik Chandler, 31, after the 11-year-old's mother discovered a video on their daughter's phone.

Police later discovered extensive child s*xual ab*se material on Gonzalez's phone.

Chandler is being held on a $100,000 bond.

All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Source: Police Report

09/09/2026

After I was r@ped by a close family friend, he put me in a hot bath, with bleach.

The first real whipping I remember getting was because I was trying to play a game with my brother called "lick the lollipop." I was 5 years old. My grandmother had left me with a trusted family friend before this happened, and he was the one who introduced me to this game. At that age, I had no idea what was happening or what I was being exposed to.

When I was asked where I had learned to do this, I told my grandmother. She dealt with the situation, but unfortunately, the abuse did not stop there.

My mother was a wild child herself, and she began leaving us with different people. Eventually, she became less involved and less caring about who was around us.

The next abuser was much older, and a close family friend. I was 8. He told me we were getting married and he laid me on a white sheet on the floor and r@ped me. I just remember the pain and lots of blood. Afterwards, he told me to take a bath and he added bleach to the water, and he told me if I told anyone, he would k*ll my mother. He told me "you're my wife now," and he abused me for 2 more years.

Eventually, the abuse got much closer and more personal. My mother's boyfriend started r@ping me and another sibling, which resulted in a 10-year-old getting pregnant. This shouldn't have happened, because we told our mother. After she wouldn't listen, I told the school counselor. CPS got involved, he wasn't supposed to be in our home. Sadly my mom let him come back after a week, and he continued to r@pe us. We were called liars and fast, but after the pregnancy, we were put out. My mom picked our abuser over us, and she stuck by him until his DNA exposed he was the father.

All this led me down a dark road for many years. I experienced one bad relationship after another, carrying pain that I had never learned how to process.

Then at 24 years old, tragedy struck again. I lost 3 of my children in a house fire. I crashed. Everything I experienced throughout my life hit me all at once. I tried to take my life. I ended up in a mental institution. I wanted to numb the pain, but nothing stopped it.

I remember looking in the mirror and seeing nothing in myself, but I saw my two living sons, who were depending on me. I got up and found purpose.

I'm an author of several books, and my life was put on the big screens. Now I travel the world, giving others hope. Life's been a tough road, but I made it as far as I could in overcoming.

You can help a child protect themselves from abusers, by gifting them a FREE Tell Somebody book! 📚 gofundme.com/GiveAFreeBook

Child abusers, please stop and seek therapy and God.
Parents, talk with and believe your children. ❤️
Survivors, seek therapy. 💪🏽

08/09/2026

Patrick Clancy's Attorney Calls Claims He Was Involved in Children's Deaths 'Outright Falsehoods'

An attorney for Patrick Clancy said Tuesday that his client and his family have been subjected to a "relentless, escalating and destructive defamation campaign" falsely linking him to the 2023 deaths of his three young children. The statement came four days after a Massachusetts judge declared a mistrial in the murder case against Clancy's former wife, who remains charged and has not been convicted.

Howard Cooper, a lawyer at Todd & Weld who represents Patrick Clancy, said the claims have been promoted by "minor celebrities, so-called influencers and outright conspiracy theorists" who, he alleged, published "what they know to be outright falsehoods that Patrick was somehow involved in the death of his young children and other vile claims." Cooper said those responsible appeared intent on raising their own profiles and seeking profit.

According to Cooper, the campaign has continued "at a fever pitch" since the mistrial and has produced "real-life threats to his reputation, livelihood, and life." He said law enforcement has been notified and that "every appropriate measure will be pursued to hold them accountable, including legally."

"Enough is enough — this spread of blatant and baseless falsehoods must stop," Cooper said.

Patrick Clancy has not been charged in connection with the children's deaths and has not been named a suspect by authorities. Trial coverage and law enforcement accounts have placed him away from the family's Duxbury, Massachusetts, home at the time prosecutors say the children were killed. He testified that he had gone out to pick up medication and takeout food and discovered the scene after he returned.

CHARGES REMAIN AFTER A HUNG JURY

Lindsay Clancy, 36, a former labor and delivery nurse, is charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and Callan, who was 8 months old. She has pleaded not guilty. A mistrial is neither a conviction nor an acquittal, and the charges against her remain pending.

Prosecutors allege that on January 24, 2023, she sent her then-husband on errands, caused the children's deaths by strangulation in the basement of their home, and jumped from a second-story window in an apparent su***de attempt that left her paralyzed. Callan died days later. Her attorneys did not dispute that she caused the children's deaths. They argued she should not be held criminally responsible, contending she was experiencing postpartum psychosis and believed she heard a male voice commanding her to kill the children and herself. Trial evidence showed she had been under psychiatric care and had been prescribed medication in the months beforehand.

On September 4, Plymouth Superior Court Judge William F. Sullivan declared a mistrial after jurors reported they could not reach a unanimous verdict following about seven days and nearly 40 hours of deliberations. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington said he believed 11 jurors favored a finding of not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court denied a last-minute defense request to block the mistrial.

Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz has not announced whether prosecutors will seek a retrial. A status hearing is scheduled for September 29. Lindsay Clancy remains at Tewksbury State Hospital.

FOCUS ON THE CHILDREN'S MEMORY, ATTORNEY SAYS

After the mistrial, another of Patrick Clancy's attorneys, David Meier, said his client was grateful to the court and the jurors. "The loss of Patrick's children is something from which he will never recover and from which there will never be closure," Meier said.

"The prospect of reliving this tragedy through another trial is extraordinarily painful — for Patrick, for his family, and for all of us."

Patrick Clancy publicly forgave his former wife in the days after the children's deaths. In an October 2024 interview with The New Yorker, he said he did not contact her immediately afterward and that they spoke only briefly when she called him in the following days. "I wasn't married to a monster — I was married to someone who got sick," he said. The couple later divorced. He has since remarried and no longer lives in Massachusetts.

Cooper said Patrick Clancy chose to address the online claims so that he could "return his attention to what matters: preserving the memory of Cora, Dawson and Callan Clancy and supporting other women facing perinatal mental health challenges."

Source: Statement from Todd & Weld, Plymouth Superior Court, The New Yorker

08/09/2026

Lindsay Clancy: Most women with postpartum psychosis don't remember the episode itself. They rely on what people tell them.

Dr. Kirk Heilbrun testified specifically that Lindsay Clancy had to be INFORMED of what happened because she initially had no memory of the killings. 💣

Other facts the jury had to weigh:

1. Lindsay fell ~12-14 feet from a second-story window - reports say she did not put out her hands to break the fall.
2. She had ICU delirium - acute brain failure/dysfunction that happens in ICU.
3. She suffered a cardiac arrest.
4. Life-saving CPR was administered twice.
5. She was put in a medically induced coma for SIX days.

Therefore, can we conclude Lindsay is an unreliable narrator? She cannot remember what happened - she was told she killed her children. That's VERY different from it being her memory.

I don't believe the significance of what Dr. Heilbrun said was fully understood.

What do you think? Is "I was told what I did" the same as "I remember doing it"?

All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Medical facts from trial testimony and hospital records discussed in Plymouth County Superior Court.

08/09/2026

SHE WAS ALONE WITH FOUR KIDS. HER HUSBAND WAS GONE FOR WEEKS AT A TIME. A WALSH FAMILY RELATIVE SHARES WHAT WE DIDN'T KNOW.

I want to share something I've been sitting with for a few days because I think it adds important context to the Barrett Walsh case that no one else has reported.

Since my first video on this story, someone close to the Walsh family reached out to me. She asked to remain completely anonymous and I promised she would. What she shared is NOT from a court document or police report. It is from someone who knew this family, who sat at their dinner table, who watched these kids grow up. I'm sharing it because context matters, and I want to be clear about where it comes from.

She wanted to correct something from my video. The neighbor who walked the older kids home from the bus stop was NOT the person who performed CPR on Barrett. When the neighbor arrived and found the baby crawling around unattended on the main level with no adults present, she left to get another family member who lives nearby. That family member is a nurse. She is the one who found Barrett and performed CPR. She is also the one who, after paramedics arrived, went upstairs and found Corie.

Here is what this relative wanted the world to know about who Corie Walsh was before September 1st:

"If you would have asked me if you ever thought Corie could do this, I would have bet my life on saying no. She was a kind, smart, funny person. Very bubbly. And she was an excellent mom who went over the top to always make everything magical for the kids. Every birthday, every holiday, every party, she went above and beyond to make it perfect. When you met her for the first time, she treated you like you were old friends."

She said the family has no idea what happened. No one besides police has spoken to Corie since her arrest. As of this weekend, Corie has apparently not attempted to call her husband Michael or her mother. The Walsh family is now staying with relatives.

Here is the picture she painted of daily life in the Walsh home:

Michael's job required him to travel extensively, sometimes for weeks at a time. He would occasionally fly home for a weekend and then leave again less than 48 hours later. That left Corie alone with four children, including an 8-month-old and Barrett, essentially full time. There was no tag team at the end of the day. No one coming home at 5 o'clock to give her a break. She was doing it all, alone.

And Barrett was Corie's most trying kid. He was deeply attached to Michael and would become very fussy and difficult for Corie every time Michael left again. He fought meals. He fought naps. Simple things that were easy with the other children were a battle with him.

She was clear that none of this justifies what happened. She said that herself and obviously, I agree. But it's important to understand the full picture of a woman who was largely alone, managing an infant and a toddler, with her husband gone for weeks and no consistent relief. Again - this is NOT an excuse. But with this context, it sounds more like she snapped rather than suffered psychosis. (This is just my opinion and mine alone.)

She confirmed Corie had been following the Lindsay Clancy trial closely. She was in a group text with friends discussing it just hours before Barrett was found.

My source said she had never known Corie to have a history of self-harm. She described Corie as having a solid support system on both sides of the family. She believes something snapped that was completely unlike the person she knew.

She also confirmed Corie has now retained attorneys Andrea Lyon and Robert Kerr. Those who followed the Lindsay Clancy trial know Andrea Lyon was also on Casey Anthony's defense team. Her presence signals where this defense could be headed.

The survivor in this case is not just Barrett's family. It is also the nurse who found him, who has four children of her own, and who is now carrying the weight of what she saw that day. Barrett was only wearing a diaper when he was found. And she is struggling with something that will stay with everyone who reads this... Whether she should have saved Corie at all.

I am sharing this because this family deserves to be seen as human beings navigating something none of us can comprehend. That includes Michael, who lost his son and his wife in the same afternoon. That includes the surviving children, who will carry September 1st for the rest of their lives.

Barrett Walsh was two years old. He was called Bear. He loved his dad. He was a beautiful boy. And he deserved to grow up. 💙

All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Details above attributed to anonymous family source, not verified court records.

07/09/2026

Just HOURS before prosecutors say Corie Walsh killed her 2-year-old son, she was intensely following the Lindsay Clancy murder trial.

Walsh, 40, was texting friends about the Clancy case until 12:30 p.m. Tuesday.

About 3 1/2 hours later, police were called to her Frankfort, IL home after a neighbor found her 2-year-old son Barrett unresponsive in the basement.

According to court docs, the neighbor removed a ligature from around his neck and started CPR. Barrett was pronounced dead at the hospital.

Prosecutors allege Walsh told investigators she killed her son because she believed he was "the devil" and the "anti-Christ."

At virtually the SAME moment Walsh was immersed in the Clancy case, jurors 1,000+ miles away in Massachusetts were deliberating whether Lindsay Clancy was criminally responsible for the deaths of her three kids — Cora 5, Dawson 3, and Callan 8 months.

Clancy's defense argued postpartum psychosis.
That jury deadlocked. Mistrial.

Now prosecutors say Walsh was in a severe mental health crisis of her own — and her attorney says she was in a psychotic episode.

Two moms. Two claims of psychosis. Two children dead. One jury deadlocked, one case just beginning.

Let's see what happens now to this alleged killer mom...

All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

06/09/2026

The “Same, Lindsay” TikTok trend just turned a murder case, postpartum mental health, and online boundaries into the most heated debate on social media right now.

The videos show moms — many of them crying and holding their own kids — reading journal entries from Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother who admitted she killed her three children, ages 5, 3, and 8 months, in Duxbury in January 2023. Clancy says she was in postpartum psychosis.

Her jury told the judge they can't agree on whether she can be held criminally responsible. The judge told them to keep deliberating.

Now South Carolina Republican Nancy Mace is calling for CPS to check on the moms behind the videos. On Facebook, she wrote that child protective services should check on the kids of any mother who has said she would harm them. Mace lost the Republican primary for governor in June and is set to leave Congress in January.

Critics say this trend crosses a serious line. Empathy for mental illness should never turn into content that looks like it's normalizing the killing of children.

Perinatal psychiatrists quoted in the reporting say scary, intrusive thoughts after childbirth are actually common, and moms who are terrified by those thoughts almost never act on them. Their real fear is that if moms think they'll be reported for admitting what they're feeling, they'll stop telling their doctors — and treatment is what actually reduces risk.

Postpartum mental health is messy, especially online where a 15-second clip can look like a cry for help, a show of solidarity, OR something deeply alarming depending on who's watching.

So where SHOULD platforms draw the line?

Between honest mental health conversation and content that feels dangerous or insensitive?

Sources: Nancy Mace on Facebook, NBC News, STAT, NPR

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