A Fox News legal analyst stated there is a case for child endangerment against Patrick Clancy because he left his children alone for less than an hour to buy laxatives and food.
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The Gerry Callahan ShowAug 17, 2026
The claim departs from the passage: the post says the analyst claimed a case for endangerment because Patrick left 'her' (Lindsay) alone with the kids, not that he left 'his children alone', and no source reports any Fox legal analyst making an endangerment claim. Sources do confirm the CVS and food errand on Jan.
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… There'd be nobody saying, "Oh, that poor, that poor guy, you know, he just couldn't handle the stress, and he strangled an 8-month-old baby. Let's let him spend a couple of years in a mental institution and then go free." Um, I listened to a TV lawyer, one of these legal analysts on Fox, over the weekend. I wrote it down, and she made she said there is a good case for child endangerment against Patrick Clancy. Why? Because he left her alone with the kids for less than an hour, went to CVS to get her laxative, and grabbed some food for his kids, got some takeout to feed his children. So he's getting her medicine. He literally called her to make sure he got the right kind of laxative because the one she wanted was out of stock, and then he grabbed some food and came home to find his children …
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Context. A Fox News article (tier3) reports Patrick Clancy's testimony that he made a trip to CVS for a child's stool softener and a stop for dinner on Jan. 24, 2023, and quotes attorney Shari Karney on the prosecution timeline, but it does not mention any endangerment claim.[4]
Context. Coverage of the trial and civil suits (AP, People, Reuters) describes the case and the mistrial but does not address any Fox legal analyst saying there was a case for child endangerment against Patrick Clancy.[1][2][3]
Context. The extracted claim's framing (he left his children alone) differs from the post's wording (he left her alone with the kids), so the claim is not what the poster said and cannot be graded as the poster's statement.
Sources
4 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 1 not rated, 1 rated low
- 1Patrick Clancy speaks on 60 Minutes about family tragedyapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2Fact Check | Reutersreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 3Patrick Clancy Claims Medical Providers' Negligence Led to His 3 ...people.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 4Lindsay Clancy prosecutors ‘squeeze’ timeline from ex-husband as jury weighs ‘murder versus madness’: expertfoxnews.com · rated low for factual reporting by Iffy.news · cited for: context
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