For more than a month this summer, the nation was transfixed by a trial taking place at the Plymouth Superior Court in Massachusetts. It was the trial of Lindsay Clancy, a mother charged with filicide. She is accused of strangling her three young children in January 2023, right before she attempted suicide. The case itself is inexplicable. Dwell too long on the particulars, and you’ll find yourself overwhelmed by the horror. A mother who carried and was raising three beautiful babies is charged with wrapping exercise bands around their necks and, one by one, choking them to death. The tiny victims who too often get lost in the discussion were 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan.