A new GoFundMe fundraiser has garnered more than $800,000 in donations for the parents of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts woman on trial for the murders of her three children.

The fundraiser, which has been verified by GoFundMe, was started by a Wisconsin woman named Brandee Mulligan for Clancy’s parents Paula and Michael Musgrove and has a goal of $2 million.

The donations are intended to help provide financial support to Paula and Michael Musgrove, who relocated from Connecticut to Massachusetts after the January 2023 deaths of Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, the fundraiser said.

Clancy, 36, is facing murder charges in the children’s strangulation deaths. She has pleaded not guilty to all three counts.

Prosecutors allege she planned the murders by sending her husband to pick up takeout food and medicine, then strangling the children with exercise bands while he was gone from the family’s Duxbury, Massachusetts, home. Afterward, Clancy cut her wrists and neck and jumped out of a second-story window, leaving her paralyzed.

Clancy’s defense is arguing that she lacks criminal responsibility – what’s known as an insanity defense – because she was suffering from postpartum depression and psychosis at the time of the killings.

Lindsay Clancy’s parents depleted savings to care for her, fundraiser says

The fundraiser said Clancy’s parents “have spent years absorbing the travel, lodging, and living costs required to remain close to their daughter, drawing down savings they spent a lifetime building.”

“Nothing about this fund asks anyone to share their view of Lindsay or the criminal case,” the description says. “It asks donors to recognize the extraordinary financial burden her parents have carried simply by continuing to be present.”

Michael and Paula Musgrove are the direct recipients of the funds, and they consented to it being made, according to its description. GoFundMe confirmed to USA TODAY that the fundraiser has been verified.

The funds will be used for travel, lodging, living costs and other expenses, it said.

“The case will eventually reach its conclusion. Whatever that outcome is, Mike and Paula will still have to pick up the pieces of the lives they have put on hold to be there for their daughter,” the fundraiser added.

Mulligan, the organizer, said in a TikTok video that she does not have access to the donations and spoke to Clancy’s attorney Kevin Reddington about the fundraiser as well.

Melina Khan is a national trending reporter for USA TODAY. Keep up with her on X @melinakh and Instagram @bymelinakhan.