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Editorial: A British nurse quietly murdered newborns. There are lessons for US hospitals.

The case of Lucy Letby, a serial killer masquerading as a nice neonatal nurse at Countess of Chester Hospital in Northern England, is so horrific as to beggar belief. On Aug. 18, the 33-year-old Letby was convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six others between June 2015 and June 2016. Over the past few days, the British media has also reported on other mysterious infant ...
A general view of the Women and Children's Building at the Countess of Chester Hospital on Aug. 18, 2023. in Chester, England. Lucy Letby, a former nurse at Countess of Cheshire Hospital, was convicted of murdering seven babies, and attempting to murder six more, in the hospital's neonatal ward between 2015 and 2016. She was found not guilty of two counts of attempted...

The case of Lucy Letby, a serial killer masquerading as a nice neonatal nurse at Countess of Chester Hospital in Northern England, is so horrific as to beggar belief.

On Aug. 18, the 33-year-old Letby was convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six others between June 2015 and June 2016. Over the past few days, the British media has also reported on other mysterious infant deaths when Letby was present, suggesting that the total number of murders from a woman who has become known as the worst serial

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