Prosecution Psychiatrist Who Smirked During Fiery Exchange with Lindsay Clancy’s Lawyer Resigns from Children’s Hospital

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Dr. Avram Mack, the prosecution’s rebuttal psychiatrist, testifies remotely during Lindsay Clancy’s triple-murder trial.The prosecution shrink who told a Massachusetts jury that Lindsay Clancy was criminally responsible for strangling her three children is now out of a job.Dr. Avram Mack, the prosecution psychiatrist who became embroiled in a fiery courtroom clash with defense attorney Kevin Reddington, is no longer employed by Nemours Children’s Health in Delaware.Mack resigned Monday, the same day he completed his explosive testimony in the closely watched case, according to the New York Post.“Dr. Avram Mack is no longer employed by Nemours Children’s Health,” the hospital system told the news outlet Friday.Nemours refused to provide any further explanation, claiming that “employment decisions are confidential.”The timing immediately raised eyebrows, although the hospital has not publicly connected Mack’s departure to his testimony.Mack was called as a prosecution rebuttal witness after evaluating Clancy twice in April 2026, more than three years after she strangled her three children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and eight-month-old Callan, with exercise bands inside the basement of the family’s Duxbury, Massachusetts, home.Clancy’s attorneys do not dispute that she killed the children. Instead, they argue that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and was not criminally responsible for her actions.Mack acknowledged that Clancy was in “a serious psychiatric state” and “was suffering” when she killed the children on January 24, 2023.He also testified he found no psychotic features in her records and that she retained the capacity to know the killings were wrong.He diagnosed her as suffering from a major depressive episode rather than postpartum psychosis.He told jurors she said “Go to God” as she strangled each child. He said that was not proof she was gone. It was proof she understood they were innocent.Mack concluded that Clancy should be held criminally responsible.Defense attorney Kevin Reddington repeatedly challenged Mack’s qualifications, his experience treating adults, his understanding of postpartum psychiatric disorders, and his conclusions about Clancy’s mental state.The questioning became especially tense when Mack appeared to smile while discussing psychological testing.“What are you smiling for?” Reddington snapped.“This is not funny, sir.”The exchange became so contentious that Judge William Sullivan repeatedly intervened and instructed Mack to listen carefully and answer the questions being asked.“Doctor, please,” Sullivan told him. “Listen to the question, and just answer the question, as asked.”Mack’s testimony directly contradicted defense expert Dr. Phillip Resnick, who concluded that Clancy was experiencing postpartum psychosis, delusions, and command hallucinations when she killed the children.Mack testified that Clancy told him she heard a loud male voice ordering her to kill the children so that she could then kill herself. According to Mack, Clancy remembered strangling the children and telling them to “go to God.”Despite that account, Mack maintained that severe mental illness, or even psychosis, does not automatically prevent someone from understanding the difference between right and wrong.During closing arguments, Plymouth County Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague reminded jurors of the prosecution’s case that Clancy deliberately separated the children and killed them one by one.“She knew that he might struggle, and so it made sense rationally to remove him and separate him first and kill him first,” Sprague said of three-year-old Dawson.One female juror was reportedly brought to tears during the prosecution’s closing argument.The jury ended its second day of deliberations Friday without reaching a verdict and is scheduled to return Monday.Clancy, 36, faces three counts of first-degree murder and could spend the rest of her life in prison if convicted. If found not guilty by reason of insanity, she could be committed to a psychiatric facility until authorities determine she no longer poses a danger.The post Prosecution Psychiatrist Who Smirked During Fiery Exchange with Lindsay Clancy’s Lawyer Resigns from Children’s Hospital appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.