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An emergency court hearing has been held for the Massachusetts midwife who 'strangled her three children to death' while 'overmedicated' on prescription drugs after her lawyer requested she be psycho-evaluated.
Lindsay Clancy, 32, was scheduled for a court hearing at 2pm Friday afternoon after her lawyer claimed prescription drugs had left her feeling like a 'zombie' as investigators probe the theory she was suffering from post-partum psychosis.
It comes after a local priest said he had given the mother her Last Rites as she lay in her hospital bed unable to walk the day after the catastrophic event.
Reverend Bob Deehan, of the local Duxbury Church, also told The Boston Globe he had visited her husband Patrick Clancy at his parents' home and the two prayed together, prompting the latter to forgive his sick wife.
Attorney Kevin Reddington, who is representing Lindsay, told Fox News a hearing had been scheduled on Friday regarding his motion to allow a forensic psychologist to evaluate her.
Father Patrick Clancy was out for 25 minutes to grab takeout for his family when he found his wife, Lindsay, unconscious after dropping from their second-floor window. Inside their home, daughter Cora (left) and son Dawson (right) were dead
Lindsay, who was on leave from her job at Massachusetts General Hospital, killed her three children Callan, eight months, Cora, five and Dawson, three, after Patrick, 34, left the family home in Massachusetts to pick up take-out.
Clancy and Callan initially survived the apparent murder-suicide attempt – with the midwife jumping out of a window on the property's top floor – but the baby later died.
Husband Patrick has since said he forgives his ill wife, writing: 'The real Lindsay was generously loving and caring towards everyone — me, our kids, family, friends, and her patients.'
Reverend Bob Deehan has now revealed the forgiveness came after the two prayed together at Patrick's parents' home.
'There’d be moments, an interjection, he’d say something or his mother would,” Deehan told The Boston Globe.
Five-year-old Cora and three-year-old Dawson were pronounced dead on arrival to hospital
Plymouth County District Attorney confirmed that Callan died at a Boston area hospital on Friday morning
'We prayed together ... A lot of it was just of kind of being present and supportive.'
Later that say, Deehan drove to Boston where he gave Lindsay Clancy the Sacrament of Anointing the Sick, often referred to as the Last Rites, as she lay in her hospital bed.
It is claimed that Lindsay was suffering from 'horrific overmedication' of prescription drugs.
Her lawyer Reddington says the concoction 'caused homicidal ideation, suicidal ideation' may have been a trigger - adding the medicine turned her into a 'zombie'.
'One of the major issues here is the horrific overmedication of drugs that cause suicidal ideation,' Reddington told
