A British nurse refused to appear in court on Monday to be sentenced for the murders of seven babies and attempted murders of six others at the UK hospital where she worked.
Lucy Letby, 33, could face a whole life order, meaning she spends the rest of her life behind bars, when she is sentenced later at Manchester Crown Court in northern England. She was found guilty on Friday by a jury, in a case that horrified the country and made her the most prolific child serial killer of recent times.
Really wish I’d stop hearing this woman’s name everywhere. Don’t want this kind of fucking crime to be celebratized.
Exactly what happens with school shootings as well. People wonder “Why did kids go shoot up schools? They must have been influenced by the [group name]!” And then they do a 24 hour news cycle where they dig up every single thing about the shooter and try to find a deeper meaning in their actions. If you were a kid being bullied all the time and you saw that on the news, of course you’d think “Wait a minute. I can make them all pay??”. Kids are crazy impressionable. Adults aren’t much better, though.