A neonatal nurse charged with murdering seven babies and attempting to kill 10 others was accused in court of injecting newborns with air and feeding them insulin at a hospital in the United Kingdom.
An expert who looked into the case said the most likely cause was air injected into the blood stream “by someone who knew it would cause significant harm,” the prosecutor said.Child A’s twin sister, Child B, also suffered from dangerously low oxygen levels some 28 hours after her brother died. Employees resuscitated her, and she survived, but Johnson told the courtroom thatOther incidents were initially chalked up to natural causes before hospital workers became alarmed, according to Johnson.
The children — identified as child F and child L — survived after doctors treated them for a sudden and dangerous drop in blood sugar levels, Johnson said. Letby was on duty when the newborns were allegedly poisoned — and was present every time “things took a turn for the worse for these 17 children,” Johnson said. The prosecution said the rise in deaths or serious deterioration of babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital coincided with Letby’s shift schedule: When she worked nights, those incidents increased, and when she was moved to day shifts, they also increased, Johnson said.
Johnson alleged that when Letby did not succeed in killing a child, she tried again — and in one case, she tried three times, he added.by Chester police in connection with their investigation into the incidents, and she was formally charged in November 2020.
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