2y ago

Nurse found guilty of murdering seven newborn babies at UK hospital

www.sbs.com.au 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.
A handwritten note found by police officers who searched her home after the arrest read "I killed them on purpose".
Letby will be sentenced on Monday and faces a very long prison term, and possibly a rare full life sentence.

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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.
- Sadly it’s not Lemmy. This is the world we live in.
  
  Good things aren't news.
- 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 I am doing it wrong but for me I see everything and only blocking a community let's me no longer see it. I started doing that but only to communities I know I will never like the content. Stuff like news is a mixed bag.
  
  My answer for any defederation request.
- 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:
  !awwnverts@lemmy.world
  !beebutts@lemmy.world
  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
- I feel you. I went on a “happy community/mag” subscription binge just last night in hopes it might help offset the constant feed of pessimism I wake up to.
  
  Good idea. Any suggestions from your search?
- 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.
  
  Ah yes, government-sanctioned murder. That won't backfire...
  
  found the reactionary
  
  That's probably the easiest way out for her. Hell doesn't exist.

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.
  
  Missing the most fucked up part. She was having an affair with the doctor who would be called in during such events. She was obsessed with him and this was how she was ensuring he'd come to the rescue.
  
  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?
- 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

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.
- 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.

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