Nurse killed 7 babies in ‘malevolent’ poison plot, prosecutor says

Washington Post ^ | 10/11/2022 | Anabelle Timsit

[simpson96]

LONDON — A neonatal nurse charged with murdering seven babies and attempting to kill 10 others was accused in court of injecting newborns with air and feeding them insulin at a hospital in the United Kingdom.

Prosecutors accused Lucy Letby, 32, of being a “constant malevolent presence” at the hospital in northwest England in a years-long case that has sparked horror and fascination in the country. She has pleaded not guilty.

Prosecutor Nick Johnson told jurors that Countess of Chester Hospital, where Letby worked, saw a significant rise in deaths and “catastrophic collapses” in its neonatal unit during 2015 and 2016, according to the Associated Press.

Doctor accused of killing 14 patients with ‘excessive’ fentanyl doses “Babies who had not been unstable at all suddenly deteriorated. Sometimes babies who had been sick, but then been on the mend suddenly deteriorated for no apparent reason,” he said.

This led employees and investigators to suspect that “a poisoner was at work,” he said. Letby is accused of trying several times in some instances to kill one child.

Details from her trial, which could last months, were splashed across Britain’s newspaper front pages Tuesday morning.

[Nifster]

No indication in the article of that. The woman is deranged.

[RedMonqey]

“Annie Wilkes” moved to England?

[Leep]

I rest my case.

[Phoenix8]

Let me guess, no chance of death penalty.

[Nifster]

Most nurses I know are apolitical. They are to busy thinking about the patient on the last shift

[Leep]

I agree.

Ps I heart nurses. Most do an incredible job.

[Chewbarkah]

Is she a scapegoat or scapegrace?

[jmacusa]

Two young nurses in the ER I work in resuscitated a four month old baby boy a week ago and this little guy was blue when they bought him in. The mother was frantic. These two nurses, who aren't married and don't have kids had this little boy back in the land of the living in 30 seconds, I don't know how they did but they did. This chick is a monster. How was she able to be alone with these infants?

[Nifster]

Well said

My mom was a nurse. My daughter is a nurse (advanced practice degree).

I believe nurses are born. Not everyone is cut out to do it

[Rummyfan]

An Angel of Death.