• Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    One dead baby, a tragedy.

    Two dead babies, a concern.

    Fourteen dead babies, I don’t care about her. She’s fucked. But what fucking hospital has 14 dead babies? Are you saying you cant identify a pattern after 4 or 5?

    The heads of the hospital should be gutted.

    Call that place “The dead baby hospital” because wtf.

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      1 year ago

      Looks like she might have targeted higher risk babies so it’s harder to catch, and of course many murders seem to be really good at faking feelings and appearing innocent. One part in the article makes me think all the victims were premature births, and that some of them were especially at risk due to that.

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      1 year ago

      I’d say deaths in hospital aren’t rare. Especially in premature babies where survival could go either way. If you’re going to murder babies, a hospital is probably the place where you’re going to go unnoticed the longest.

      That said, the timeline is pretty damning. Over a decade she’d still be doing it, but this was all in the space of just over a year.

      https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-interactive/2023/aug/18/lucy-letby-timeline-attacks-babies-when-alarm-raised