British Healthcare Worker Charged With Killing 8 Babies

British Healthcare Worker Charged With Killing 8 Babies
A woman (C) visits her newborn baby in a file photo, Ezequiel Becerra/AFP via Getty Images
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LONDON—A British female healthworker has been charged with the murder of eight babies and trying to murder 10 others at a hospital in northern England, police said on Wednesday.

Lucy Letby, 30, was charged over the deaths and “non-fatal collapses” at the neonatal unit at The Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016.