Lindsay Clancy is on trial in Massachusetts for strangling her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months old — in the basement of her Duxbury home in January 2023, one by one, after sending her husband out on an errand. Commentator Matt Walsh laid out what that means in the plainest terms anyone has: three small children, each aware enough to understand what was happening to the sibling before them, waiting their turn, calling for the one person who was supposed to protect them, only to discover she had become the danger itself. I won't improve on that description, and I won't try. If the facts are what prosecutors and Walsh say they are, there is no gentler way to say it.

Her defense is built on a claim of severe postpartum psychosis — nearly 20 medical visits in the months before the killings, testimony from her own mother that Lindsay described becoming psychotic and having thoughts of harming her children. The prosecution counters that she skipped prescribed medication and knew exactly what she was doing. A jury will decide which version the law recognizes. That's their job, not mine.

But here's what doesn't require a jury to sort out. While that trial plays out, a GoFundMe called the Musgrove Family Fund — set up for Lindsay's parents, Mike and Paula Musgrove, who relocated from Connecticut to be near her during the proceedings — has raised more than........

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