TikTok videos<\/a> defending Clancy and describing the case as an important moment for “maternal autonomy.”<\/p>\n“Mom knows Lindsay killed her kids, right?” Brayden asked his father. “Because she keeps saying we shouldn’t judge her, and then she starts crying every time somebody says the word ‘murder.’ I just want to make sure Mom hasn’t misunderstood which part of the story we’re supposed to be upset about.”<\/p>\n
According to household sources, the 8-year-old\u2019s panic intensified when Ashleigh joined several online groups dedicated to discussing maternal mental health, where members frequently praised Clancy’s courage, questioned whether society had been sufficiently compassionate toward her and criticized people who continued referring to the three children as victims.<\/p>\n
At publishing time, the boy had packed a small overnight bag containing three pairs of socks, a toothbrush and several granola bars and quietly placed it underneath his bed, just in case his mother begins referring to homicide as “an opportunity for society to practice radical compassion.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PLYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS \u2014 Following the breaking news of a mistrial in the high-profile Lindsay Clancy murder case, a local 8-year-old cautiously approached his father Friday evening to ask if “mistrial” meant his mother was now legally permitted to start killing people around the house. The child, Brayden Miller, reportedly became concerned after watching his mother […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[41,1114],"class_list":["post-37885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-u-s-news","tag-crime","tag-rated-pg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}