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“Our conclusion was there was no medical evidence to support malfeasance causing injury in any of the 17 cases in the trial,” Dr. Lee said. “In summary, ladies and gentlemen, we did not find any murders.”
Instead, the panel found that the babies died from “natural causes or errors in medical care,”The Guardianreports.
She was sentenced to 15 life terms with no possibility of release.
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Lee said Dr. Dewi Evans, the prosecution’s top expert witness, misinterpreted his 1989 academic findings on embolism,CBS Newsreports.
Noting that embolism is rare, Lee said, “The notion that these babies can be diagnosed with air embolism because they collapsed and had these skin discolorations has no evidence in fact,” CBS News reports.
One of the experts on the panel, Dr. Neena Modi, a neonatology professor at Imperial College London, said there were “very plausible reasons for these babies’ deaths,”The New York Timesreports.
“There was a combination of babies being delivered in the wrong place, delayed diagnosis and inappropriate or absent treatment,” she said. “There are clearly systemic factors at play that we have identified as well as individual factors that we have identified.”
source: people.com