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The parents of twins Child A and Child B, who were attacked in June 2015, said “what should have been the happiest time of our lives became our worst nightmare,” according toThe Guardian.
While Child A was killed, her twin sister Child B, survived. “Never could we have imagined that the most precious things in our lives would be placed in such harm in the care of a nurse,” said the parents. “Our minds are so traumatized that it won’t let us remember the night you killed our child.”
“We struggle with depression, anxiety and PTSD,” the parents added,The Guardianreports. “We sometimes want to give up but we never will … we have a duty to give [Child B] the best life possible and we will spend our lives doing that. We hope you live a very long life and spend every day suffering forever … We will never think of you again from this day.”
“Our world was shattered when we encountered evil disguised as a caring nurse,” she said, the BBC reports. “Even in these final days of the trial she has tried to control things. The disrespect she has shown the families and the court show what type of person she is. We have attended court day in and day out, yet she decides she has had enough, and stays in her cell - just one final act of wickedness from a coward.”
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Their mother said she remembers blaming herself, thinking she had passed on an illness or infection to her boys. The parents also said the triplet who survived, who is now 7, asks “heartbreaking questions” about what happened to his two siblings, and she refuses to go to the Countess of Chester Hospital ever again.
“Because the seriousness of your offenses is exceptionally high, I direct that the early release provisions do not apply,” Goss told the court. “The order of the court therefore is whole life order on each and every offense and you will spend the rest of your life in prison.”
She was removed from the neonatal ward in 2016, after senior members of staff grew suspicious following a year of mysterious deaths and near-deaths on the unit.
source: people.com
