Baby Girl Was Allegedly Force-Fed 'Massive' Amounts of Milk by Nurse Accused of Killing 7 Infants

Mar. 15, 2025

Dr. Stephen Breary, an on-call consultant in the neonatal unit, testified in Manchester Crown Court that the infant, who was born premature and weighed just over one pound at birth, was “improving” on Sept. 6, theBBCreported.

Breary testified that he was called back to the unit at 3:30 a.m. on Sept. 7 because the infant had a “very large projectile vomit,” according to the BBC.

“This was not something I had witnessed before,” Dr. Breary said, the BBC reported.

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Evans testified that the infant “had received far more milk” than prescribed down her nasal tube, the BBC reported.

The infant suffered irreversible brain damage, the Times reported.

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“Well, ladies and gentlemen, that in a nutshell is your task in this case,” Johnson told the jury. “Whether or not she did these dreadful things is the decision you will have to make when you have heard all the evidence.”

source: people.com