'Trust Me, I'm a Nurse': Mom Walked in on Nurse While She Was Allegedly Murdering Her Son

Mar. 15, 2025

In August 2015, an already worried new mother of premature twin boys was shocked to see one of her five-day old sons “acutely distressed” and bleeding from the mouth in the neonatal unit of a U.K. hospital, a prosecutor told a British court.

The nurse tending to the infant allegedly told the terrified mother not to worry: a nasogastric tube had simply irritated the infant’s throat, prosecutor Nick Johnson told the Manchester Crown Court, theBBC,The GuardianandThe Independentreport.

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No autopsy was performed because hospital officials attributed the infant’s death to a condition that premature babies sometimes have,The Guardianreports.

In one note, she allegedly wrote, “I killed them on purpose because I’m not good enough to care for them,” Johnson said.

In another, she allegedly wrote, “Not good enough. I will never have children or marry. I will never know what it’s like to have a family.”

She also allegedly said in one of the notes, “I am a horrible evil person” and then wrote in capital letters: “I AM EVIL I DID THIS.”

Her trial continues this week.

Her attorney could not immediately be reached for comment.

source: people.com