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## Video: British Nurse Lucy Letby Imprisoned for Life for Murder of 7 Babies

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_Published 2023-08-21. A former neonatal nurse who killed seven babies in her care and tried to kill six others at a hospital in northern England was sentenced Monday to life in prison with no chance of release by a judge who highlighted “the cruelty and calculation" of her actions._


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## Transcript

That was a deep malevolence full during on sadism in your actions. During the course of this trial, you have totally denied any responsibility for your wrongdoing and sought to attribute some people to others. You have no remorse. There are no mitigating factors. And that totality the offenses of murder and attempted murder wear of exceptionally High, seriousness, and just punishment. According to law requires a whole life order. Lucille at Bay on each of the seven, offences of murder and the Seven offences of attempted murder, I sentence you to imprisonment for life. Because the seriousness of your offenses is exceptionally High direct that the early release Provisions, do not apply.

The order for cool that fool is a whole life order on each and every offense and you will spend the rest of your life in prison. Did you see that play was entrusted to protect some of the most vulnerable babies? Little did those working alongside her know that there was a murderer in the NIT? She did most to conceal her Crimes, by varying the ways in which she repeatedly home to babies and her cat. She sought to deceive her colleagues and pass off the phone. She calls as nothing more than a worsening of each babies existing vulnerability. In homs, innocuous substances like f milk or medication like insulin would become legal shield and weapon, always talk.

Croft to inflict home, grief and death. Time. And again, she homes babies in an environment, which should have been safe for them and their families. Parents were exposed to her morbid curiosity and her fake concussion, too. Many of them returned home, 20 baby rooms, many surviving children live with permanent consequences of a result from the ionized attacks were in complete betrayal of the trust placed in her. My thoughts are with the families of the victims who may never have closure. But you know, I have a 2 questions which had trouble putting PJs on behalf of all the families. In this case, What can effectively explain how we are feeling at this moment.

In time we all fights in Keystone to lose the babies is a heartbreaking experience but no parent should ever have to go through to lose a baby or type of baby harmed in these particular circumstances imaginable. over the past seven to eight years, we have to go through a long tortuous and emotional Journey I'm losing all precious newborns and grieving dial off. Bingo children, who survived some of whom still suffering today to being told he is late of the death cult might be suspicious. Nothing can prepare you for the news today, just to talk being served on a nurse used to being caring for all babies being found guilty of harming them.

What is Justice will not take away from the extreme hurt anger and distress. We will have to experience. Some families did not receive the photo copy I expected. And therefore it is a better sweet results. We are heartbroken devastated on Greenfield on, we may never too. You know why?

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