Lindsay Clancy’s psychiatrist admits she NEVER had face-to-face appointment with her… despite prescribing barrage of medication before children’s killings: Live updates

Dr Tufts admitted that all 14 appointments she had with Clancy between September 2022 and January 2023 were telehealth – meaning they were over Zoom.

She had never seen Clancy face-to-face until she took the stand to testify.

‘Until you came in this courtroom Friday you never saw this woman did you?’ Reddington asked.

‘Correct,’ she responded.

The prosecution has completed its direct questioning of Nurse Paul.

The judge told the jury the court will be in recess until Tuesday morning when cross-examination will begin.

In late-November 2022, Clancy spoke to her about suffering a panic attack. When she recommended she need in-patient care, Clancy didn’t think that it would be possible for her and her family at that time.

When she transferred Clancy’s care to Nurse Jolotta, she said she received a message from her.

In it, Clancy thanked her for her care.

On November 21, 2022, Paul first prescribed Clancy Prozac.

Clancy began taking the antidepressant the next day but she felt ‘disconnected, out of it and a little bit spacey’ from it.

So a few days later on November 25, Paul prescribed her a one-time dose of Ambien, as well as Remeron and Klonopin, instead of the Prozac.

In late-November, Paul was relocating to another hospital so transferred Clancy’s care to another nurse.

She still had a few messages and calls with Clancy after that.

These prescriptions came while she was still in the care of Dr Tufts.

Clancy’s main issue was that she could not sleep, Paul said.

In November, 2022, Clancy said she was not having intrusive thoughts of harming herself or her children.

She was feeling overwhelmed with looking after her children and had increased anxiety about going back to work.

Paul ran a postpartum program and also worked with Patrick’s mother Sue Clancy.

Sue told her that Clancy had been struggling postpartum so, with Clancy’s permission, Paul reached out to Clancy to see if she would be interested in and would qualify for taking part in the program.

During a first phone call, Clancy told her that she struggled with anxiety when Patrick went back to work. She said she was struggling with anxiety and racing thoughts and that she had been prescribed medications for sleep and anxiety.

Clancy said she had no homicidal or suicidal thoughts. She also reported no audio or visual hallucinations.

The next day, on November 21, 2022, they did the intake at the clinic in person.

The next witness is Julie Paul, a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner who also briefly treated Clancy in the months leading up to the killings.

In a fiery exchange, Kevin Reddington and Dr Tufts sparred over a phrase in one of her medical notes.

In the note, she wrote ‘not hyper, pressured speech.’

Reddington argued this contradicts her statement that Clancy’s speech was normal – something Dr Tufts has used to argue she was not suffering from psychosis.

Dr Tufts argued that she meant Clancy did not have pressured speech and Reddington was misinterpreting her notes.

‘I don’t care what it says, I know what I meant,’ she said.

‘Your interpretation is not correct,’ she said.

‘As opposed to yours,’ he fired back.

The prosecution has repeatedly referred to Clancy taking marijuana gummies.

Reddington submitted Clancy’s medical records from Rhode Island, which show that in mid-November 2022 she had tried taking one gummy to help her sleep.

It caused her to suffer palpitations and increased anxiety so she went to the hospital.

Reddington is pointing out that – despite the state’s repeated mention of it – she had one gummy, one time.

Defense attorney Kevin Reddington is back questioning Dr Tufts about why she never asked Clancy to sign a HIPAA release form.

Reddington pointed out that Clancy was cooperative with her and likely would have signed it.

Had she done that, Dr Tufts could have contacted her family members to get a bigger picture of her mental wellbeing.

On January 23, 2023 – one day before the killings – Dr Tufts testified that she did not recommend Clancy be admitted to hospital because there were no signs she was a danger to herself or anyone else.

‘She was completely denying any suicidal ideation, homicidal ideation. There were no signs of psychosis or mania so there were no serious signs that her safety or anyone else’s safety were at risk,’ she testified.

If Clancy had spoken of thoughts of harming herself or her children, it would definitely have involved hospitalization, Dr Tufts said.

‘I would have addressed it properly.’

Both before and after taking the Seroquel, Clancy showed signs of depression.

Seroquel is an antipsychotic drug which is also used to treat bipolar.

Clancy voiced concerns that the Seroquel made her depressed.