The Baby Killer : Lucy Letby
This Is Monsters
Jiles
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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When the mortality rate in the Neonatal Unit of the Countess of Chester Hospital increased, doctors pointed out that Lucy Letby had been the only one on shift during all the deaths. Management tried to brush it off as coincidence, but it wasn't long before they learned that the infants were intentionally being killed.
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| 0:00.0 | In June of 2015, the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital in Chester, England, saw a sharp rise in the mortality rate of their unit. |
| 0:10.0 | Like other hospitals in the area, it was normal to see three or four deaths occur in the unit in a year. |
| 0:17.0 | Unfortunately, there were three deaths in June alone, and that increase in fatalities wouldn't slow down over the next year. |
| 0:24.0 | Despite the hospital trying to shrug it off his medication errors or even just coincidence, |
| 0:30.0 | it wouldn't be long before the staff realized that someone was intentionally killing the babies. |
| 0:36.0 | This is monsters. Oh, Lucy Let me was born on January 4th, 1990 to John and Susan Letby in Hereford, England. |
| 1:10.0 | She was an only child. Lucy was described as a kind and happy child who did well at school and regularly attended church. |
| 1:18.0 | Susan was said to have had a difficult birth with Lucy and a friend said that it affected the girl throughout her life. |
| 1:25.0 | As far as anybody could remember, Lucy had always wanted to become a nurse and she took her study |
| 1:29.9 | seriously so that she could make that dream come true. |
| 1:33.7 | Being an only child and having come from a difficult birth, |
| 1:37.0 | it wasn't surprising that people described Lucy as having been spoiled. |
| 1:41.6 | She was doted on by her parents and it seemed as if they never really |
| 1:45.1 | told her no. Even as an adult, she would go on multiple vacations a year at her parents' |
| 1:50.4 | expense and they even helped her buy a house. Throughout her life |
| 1:54.2 | Lucy became accustomed to getting anything she wanted. After high school Lucy |
| 1:59.2 | attended the University of Chester where she graduated with a bachelor's of science and child nursing. of nurse at both Liverpool Women's Hospital and the Countess of Chester Hospital. |
| 2:15.2 | After qualifying as a Band-5 nurse, which is the level of a nurse just starting out in the field, |
| 2:21.0 | Lucy continued to work at the Countess of Chester Hospital. |
| 2:25.4 | Over the year, she worked with various children at the hospital, but in 2015 she qualified to work |
| 2:31.1 | with infants in the intensive care unit. |
| 2:34.2 | She was soon transferred to the neonatal intensive care unit, sometimes referred to as the |
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