Playground goes up in Duxbury in honor of slain Clancy children

Their names were Cora Dawson and Callan Clancy and they lived on Summer Street in Duxbury On Saturday the neighborhood joined together to build a playground in their memory the new Clancy Family Playground at Tremont St This playground will be more than just a place to play it will be a lasting tribute filled with love laughter and light A space where families come together children play freely and the spirit of these three cherished souls live on in every joyful sound an invitation to help build the playground stated Together let s create a place where their memory continues to inspire and uplift our population The children s father Patrick Clancy got to do the ribbon-cutting honors He had moved away from Duxbury following the Jan tragedy that shattered his world That evening prosecutors say their mother Lindsay Clancy who was a labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital strangled each of them with exercise bands in the basement Lindsay Clancy is charged with murder for the deaths of each of them Five-year-old Cora and three-year-old Dawson were pronounced dead that night while their younger brother died at months old three days later Much of the coverage has been focused on the mother who attempted suicide that same night and her defense attorney s suggests that she was suffering from post-partum psychosis was misdiagnosed and over-medicated and remains extremely emotional and suicidal She has participated in the relatively meager court hearings from hospital beds as her circumstance slowly moves through the court system Her next pretrial conference is scheduled for Dec with a trial date set for Jan But as the legal system slowly churns along in her situation whole generations of Duxbury children will know the names of Cora Dawson and Callan from now on Staff Photo By Stuart Cahill Boston HeraldChildren get the first run of the slide as the Clancy Family Playground holds a ribbon cutting in memory of the Clancy children on Saturday Staff Photo By Stuart Cahill Boston Herald Staff Photo By Stuart Cahill Boston HeraldPatrick Clancy center is helped by police and participants to raise the Where Angles Play flag as the Clancy Family Playground holds a ribbon cutting in memory of the Clancy children on Saturday Staff Photo By Stuart Cahill Boston Herald