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sl8

(13,720 posts)
Wed Oct 12, 2022, 01:33 PM Oct 2022

Trial begins for U.K. nurse accused of killing 7 babies, trying to kill 10 others

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2022/10/11/UK-nurse-Letby-murder/6041665513373/

Trial begins for U.K. nurse accused of killing 7 babies, trying to kill 10 others

By Matt Bernardini & Simon Druker
OCT. 11, 2022 / 6:30 PM



Lucy Letby, 32, is on trial in the U.K., charged with murdering seven babies and attempting to kill 10 others, after she allegedly injected the children with air and fed them insulin in the neonatal ward of the hospital she worked in as a nurse. Photo via Facebook.

Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Prosecutors in the U.K. said on Tuesday that a nurse, who is charged with murdering seven babies and attempting to kill 10 others, injected the children with air and fed them insulin.

Lucy Letby, 32, was a "constant malevolent presence" at the neonatal unit of Countess of Chester Hospital in northwest England over six years ago, prosecutors said on Tuesday.

Jurors also were told that a mother of twins walked in on Letby trying to kill one of her baby boys. Letby allegedly told the mother, "Trust me, I'm a nurse," prosecutor Nick Johnson said during the trial.

The infant was "acutely distressed" and bleeding from the mouth, the court heard. The woman, who cannot be named, did not realize Letby was allegedly in the process of attacking her son.

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Trial begins for U.K. nurse accused of killing 7 babies, trying to kill 10 others (Original Post) sl8 Oct 2022 OP
How the hell could she get away with that, long enough until there were 17 victims? Hugh_Lebowski Oct 2022 #1
Maybe she didn't The King of Prussia Oct 2022 #2
 

Hugh_Lebowski

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1. How the hell could she get away with that, long enough until there were 17 victims?
Wed Oct 12, 2022, 02:08 PM
Oct 2022

Aren't there cameras in neo-natal units?

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