Nurse found guilty of murdering seven newborn babies at UK hospital
Nurse found guilty of murdering seven newborn babies at UK hospital
The verdict, following a 10-month trial at Manchester Crown Court, makes Lucy Letby one of Britain's most prolific serial child killers.
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33-year-old Lucy Letby was convicted on Friday of killing seven babies in the neonatal unit of a hospital in England.
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A handwritten note found by police officers who searched her home after the arrest read "I killed them on purpose".
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Letby will be sentenced on Monday and faces a very long prison term, and possibly a rare full life sentence.
Idk about everyone else but dam does Lemmy have some of the most brutal posts over and over... between these messed up news stories, brutal cop stories, and the constant politics posts is there even anything else to see? I think I've had enough internet tonight.
I curate the communities I follow to only be nice, hobby-related things, so when I've had enough of the all feed, there's plenty to see without the horror stories.
That's true it's probably just the all feed I'll just hop .... Nope apparently my home feed is depressing AF
Same, I also block communities that consistently show up on my all-feed with negative content. I'd rather miss an interesting post than see negative stuff regularly. There's enough stuff to be depressed about, and those 5 minute pocket-lemmy breaks add up. If all those moments were to be consistently negative, I'm sure it'd do a number on my mental health in the long run.
I used to do that with Reddit too… followed would be stuff I really personally want to see and I’d check All if I didn’t get enough.
I think one of the problems here is just a litany of cross posts.
Maybe try upliftingnews@lemmy.world ?
My feed is overrun by cat content…I mean I love the kitties but it’s too much
I got cute bugs here if you want:
And if the cats need legal advice, we've got you covered here: !cattorneys_at_paw@lemmy.world
that's how all social media is. people are biologically compelled to be curious about violence
I like to click on it and then complain about it in the comments and then downvote
Yes. unfortunately most of the active posters that do this are smart enough to actually contribute useful content along with news that serve their political interests.
Lemmy is full of radicals, both lefties and righties. And so they post a lot of brutal shit. Interesting communities are far and few and no matter what people are saying, all the interesting stuff is still on Reddit, sadly... I just wish people would prioritise their hobbies and interests instead of echo chambers and radicalisation.
Hope she gets some much needed mental health support in prison
Nothing quiets the mind like a lethal injection.
Yo. WTF.
Is a hand written note really enough proof?
As she did not confess in court, I'm keeping the option open that she could be innocent. We've had those cases before.
Very unlikely here.
The death rate shot up at the hospital where she worked, and in every single suspicious case of death or near death of a baby, she was present. All 25 of them. I think the next closest was a nurse who was present for 7 of them.
When she stopped working there the suspicious deaths stopped. Deaths on that baby ward pretty much stopped completely actually. I think they had like one on that unit in the years following, compared to 3-4 month when Letby was there.
I'm not saying it's impossible she's innocent, in the same way it's not impossible for my ugly ass to get a date with Michelle Ryan. But it's really, really unlikely.
There was this case of Lucia de Berk who was convicted on statistics like these, although she was innocent.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucia_de_Berk
Perhaps your chances with Michelle are better than you thought!
Parents literally walked in on her mid-murder, but yeah maybe she was just pretending to kill it? For a joke?
I can't even imagine what I would do to a nurse that was hurting my baby.. I just had a baby and I was ready to knock out the lactation consultant for pushing my baby's head into my wife's boob a little hard.
Had those cases before? Care to elaborate or specify on that I would be greatly interested.
Here's one I remember from my childhood...
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/mar/26/why-the-birmingham-six-story-must-not-be-forgotten
Edit: For clarity I'm not suggesting anything like that happened in this case. It just fit the bill for what I thought you were looking for
Haha haha.... Women.... Right?
To be fair the NHS and UK government were probably too busy attacking trans people to worry about an actual problem
Literal infants were murdered and you found a way to shoehorn trans issues into the conversation. Congrats.
The NHS has been gutted by successive conservative governments. It's a shadow of it's former self and not really a health service at this point. This type of crime could happen anywhere but a lack of funding would surely also contribute to a lack of oversight.
Pure narcissism.
Gross.
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I don’t know why you are being downvoted. You’re right. This is not just one evil person. It’s also a systemic failure of controls and oversight. This would not have been possible without a criminally negligent institution around the perpetrator.