A nurse kills babies – level 2
22-08-2023 07:00
Manchester Crown Court found a nurse Lucy Letby guilty of murdering seven newborn babies. The court also said that Letby attempted to kill six more at a hospital in England where she worked.
After a 10-month trial, the court declared Letby the worst child killer in the country. She injected insulin or air into the babies, and she also forced them to drink milk. These things usually happened at night. The hospital staff noticed unusual deaths and called the police.
Letby left a note at her home where she said that she was guilty. Although she seemed like a nice person on social media, the court had evidence that she wanted to hurt babies. The incidents took place between June 2015 and June 2016.
Difficult words: insulin (a hormone which regulates sugar in the blood), guilty (when someone does something bad and other people know it), evidence (information or things which show that someone did something wrong).
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What motivated Lucy Letby to commit such heinous acts?
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