Both the prosecution and her defense attorney read pages from her journal Monday as she chronicled those difficult months. Father returns home to a shocking sceneLindsay Clancy wept at the defense table last week as Patrick Clancy and other witnesses testified. In the hospital two days later, when a forensic psychologist asked Clancy how she felt, she responded: “horrified.” He needed a ventilator at Boston Children’s Hospital to help him breathe, but did have a heartbeat. “This is not a public debate about women’s mental health and how the medical system treats women,” Buckingham said.