A British nurse accused of killing seven newborns—and making an attempt to kill extra—says “raw sewage” is responsible for the mysterious deaths.
Way again in 2020, we first reported on UK nurse Lucy Letbywho was arrested after an investigation into toddler deaths on the Countess of Chester Hospital Just outdoors of Liverpool, England. She labored within the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit on the medical middle between 2015 and 2016, the place, in accordance with a The Sun, 5 toddler males and two toddler females have been all victims of Letby’s alleged crimes. She was additionally accused of making an attempt to kill 10 extra infants, together with “Child G,” who she allegedly tried to power-feed a “massive” quantity of milk to whereas one other neonatal nurse was on an hour-lengthy break, in accordance with the Hereford Times,
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The Sun additionally famous of their report that Letby’s arrest in reference to the investigation was her THIRD, with the 2 prior being in 2018 and 2019. She was bailed out in each cases. Altogether, she’s dealing with 22 homicide and tried homicide expenses… to which she’s pleaded not responsible.
According to a Wednesday report by way of The Guardian, Lucy, whose trial started in October, has now cited uncooked sewage as a “contributing factor” within the overwhelming quantity of tragic toddler deaths on the UK hospital. She alleged that the intensive care room for infants was “not a safe working environment,” explaining:
“We used to have uncooked sewage popping out of the sinks. [and] popping out on the ground in nursery one.”
WTF??
While being questioned about one particular toddler’s 2015 dying, the 33-yr-previous mentioned it was essential “to know there were often plumbing issues” within the hospital. She added:
“It’s a contributory issue if the unit is dirty and staff were unable to wash their hands.”
You could also be questioning why she would not have mentioned something to hospital workers throughout that point to guarantee a clear space for the newborns. But the accused nurse claimed plumbers have been usually known as to the nursery the place probably the most susceptible newborns have been cared for, to clear “backflow.” She testified:
“That’s not a protected working atmosphere. I’m unsure what influence that might have on a poor child.”
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She vehemently denied all allegations in entrance of among the mother and father of the deceased infants, claiming earlier this month:
“I solely ever did my finest to take care of them. That’s utterly towards every little thing that being a nurse is. I’m there to care, to not hurt.
Last month it was revealed she’d instructed police it was merely “bad luck” that she was current for all of the deaths. She additionally mentioned she had been involved in regards to the “spike” in neonatal deaths—however by no means introduced it as much as her supervisors. It was additionally revealed she searched the kids’s mother and father on-line within the days earlier than and after the infants’ deaths. As famous, Letby’s co-employees have testified they noticed different suspicious and inexplicable conduct. She was additionally questioned earlier this month a couple of notice she wrote saying:
“I killed them on purpose because I’m not good enough to care for them and I’m a horrible evil person.”
She mentioned it was simply how she’d felt responsible on the time, explaining:
“I felt on the time that if I’d performed one thing mistaken I have to be such an evil, terrible individual. I’d by some means been incompetent and had performed one thing mistaken which had affected these infants. I felt I have to be accountable indirectly. I believe wanting again on it now, I used to be actually struggling, and this was a approach of me expressing what I wasn’t capable of say to anybody else.”
There is a lot to this totally tragic case. We simply really feel so heartbroken for all of the affected households because it continues…
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