JUDGE FINDS MOTHER WITH POSTPARTUM PSYCHOSIS NOT GUILTY OF KI-LLING HER TWO CHILDREN — AS AMERICA WAITS FOR THE LINDSAY CLANCY VERDICT, A SH0CKING COURT RULING HAS ALREADY RAISED QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT COULD HAPPEN NEXT IN THE CASE THAT DIVIDED THE NATION

A New York mother with postpartum psychosis was found not guilty of 𝘬iᩚlling her two young boys after a judge accepted her plea of insanity.

Dimone Fleming, 22, was accused of stabbing her sons, 11-month-old Octavius  and three-year-old Daishawn Fleming, multiple times and submerging them in a bathtub on November 26, 2022, according to .

Judge Audrey Stone found Fleming, now 26, not responsible by mєntal disease or defect in Bronx Criminal Court on Monday.

Her decision comes as the world awaits the verdict in the high-profile trial of  mom , who has put forward the same defense in the 𝘬iᩚlling of her three children.

Like Clancy, Fleming had been receiving treatment for  and anxiety prior to her children’s deaths, according to court records obtained by the .

Fleming was working at a concession stand in Queens and living in a shelter in the Mount Hope neighborhood of the Bronx with her two sons.

She was diagnosed with major depressive disorder and prescribed psychotropic medication by doctors.

However, Fleming was instead using marijuana on a daily basis, which amplified her symptoms.

Dimone Fleming, 22, was charged with first-degree murder in the killings of her two young sons, three-year-old Daishawn Fleming (pictured) and 11-month-old Octavius Canada, but was found not guilty by reason of insanity

Prosecutors said Fleming repeatedly stabbed her two young boys and submerged them in a bathtub in November 2022

Fleming’s case has drawn parallels to that of Massachusetts mom Lindsay Clancy, who is accused of murdering her three children but has put forward an insanity defense

Psychiatrist Dr Eric Goldsmith, who evaluated Fleming at the prosecution’s request, wrote in a report that the mom-of-two was ‘grossly psychotic and out of touch with reality’ on the night she killed her sons.

Goldsmith said that Fleming was hallucinating and thought the world was coming to an end.

She also believed that a spirit had invaded her body, according to the psychiatrist.

A forensic psychiatric report written by doctors from the defense said Fleming thought her actions ‘were necessary to protect or cleanse her children.’

Fleming was naked from the waist up and holding a children’s book upside down while sitting on a bed when police found her in the shelter, according to prosecutors.

Unlike Clancy’s case, prosecutors did not aggressively pursue conviction, although Fleming was originally charged with first-degree murder.

‘Prosecuting mothers does not and cannot prevent these crimes from happening, but public discourse might,’ Tiffany Wichman, a Bronx assistant district attorney, said.

‘People talking about it is important, and I hope people continue talking about it.’

Fleming’s lawyer, Jodi Morales, called the result of the case ‘a result of collaboration.’

Fleming was hallucinating and thought the world was about to end, according to a psychiatrist who evaluated her at the prosecution’s request

Fleming’s children were not initially discovered dead by police, they were found by one of the boy’s father

‘Everybody recognized what we were dealing with here,’ she said. ‘That doesn’t happen often when you’re on opposite sides of the table.’

Fleming allegedly stabbed her kids with kitchen shears and covered them with a sheet after placing them in the bathtub.

Police were called to the shelter shortly before 7.30pm after an employee noticed smoke and water emanating from Fleming’s apartment after she left a faucet running and the stove on.

The two children were initially not discovered and Fleming was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx for treatment.

However, Columbus Canada, Octavius’ father and Fleming’s boyfriend at the time, found the kids when he returned home later that night.

Canada was in court on Monday and said he forgave Fleming, who he called a ‘good person,’ according to the New York Times.

‘She was a loving person,’ Canada told the outlet. ‘She loved kids.’

Clancy’s murder trial will return to deliberations on Monday. She is pictured in court on August 28

Clancy strangled her children, Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan, in January 2023, and then attempted to take her own life

Going forward, Fleming could be held at a high-security hospital for an initial six months.

That would be extended indefinitely if her condition does not improve.

Should doctors find her to be mentally ill but not dangerous, she could also be sent to a more open hospital for further evaluation.

Fleming could also be discharged if she is found to be mentally fit. However, the court would likely place conditions on her freedom.

Fleming confirmed that she understood the proceedings in court on Monday.

She is expected to return to court on September 18 after being evaluated by court-appointed psychiatrists.

Fleming’s case drew comparisons to Clancy’s murder trial, which will return to deliberations on Monday.

Clancy’s defense team has argued that she  when she killed her children and unsuccessfully tried to take her own life.

Judge William Sullivan allowed the jurors to go home for the weekend after they failed to reach a verdict following two days of deliberations.

The jury asked to see the knife that Clancy used to try to take her life, as well as bags of pill bottles found in her home, on Friday.

Postpartum psychosis afflicts roughly one to two per 1,000 women after delivery, according to the .

The Daily Mail has reached out to Fleming’s lawyer, Morales, and the Bronx County District Attorney’s Office for comment.

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