The Tale Of An Evil Nurse

Lucy Letby, a 33-year-old NICU Nurse in the UK was recently found guilty of murdering 7 babies and trying to kill 6 others over a two-year period.  She killed or injured the infants by injecting air or milk directly into the stomachs of some, 2 were slain with insulin and others had their breathing apparatuses compromised.  And these are only the ones we know about!  A question that remains is just how many other children were victims.

Police arrested Letby after authorities noticed a spike in infant deaths at the hospital and noticed Letby was on each shift where a questionable infant death occurred.  She denied all the charges despite Police finding a personal note in her home reading “I am evil, I did this,” which police said was “literally a confession.”

The lengthy trial started in October 2022, and it took 145 days in the UK for the jury to go over all the evidence before deliberating for another 22 days to find Letby guilty of the seven murders and seven charges of attempted murder.

The convicted murderess was sentenced to life imprisonment with no possibility of parole.  There is no death penalty in the UK, even for such horrific crimes as these.

Babies are the most vulnerable beings of the human race particularly when they become patients of healthcare providers.  Yet we seem to be at a loss to account for just how this Nurse came to be allowed to care for these infants.

It is scary when a Nurse, put in a position of such high-level trust, goes off the deep end!

I guess we will never know why she chose to take these endangering and fatal actions, but the good nurses do protect our patients. Should there be a bad Nurse out there, we need to take any and every step to stop them so that these tragic and horrible events never happen again.