Pressdee was charged with giving extreme quantities of insulin to 22 sufferers.
A US nurse who administered deadly doses of insulin to a number of sufferers over three years in an try and kill them was on Saturday sentenced to 380-760 years in jail. She was liable for the deaths of at the very least 17 sufferers in 5 well being amenities between 2020 and 2023, the court docket was instructed.
Heather Pressdee, a 41-year-old nurse in Pennsylvania, pleaded responsible to a few counts of homicide, and 19 counts of tried homicide and was sentenced to life in jail.
Pressdee was charged with giving extreme quantities of insulin to 22 sufferers, together with some who weren’t diabetic throughout in a single day shifts when few individuals had been working. Most of the sufferers died quickly after receiving the dose, or someday later. Her victims had been aged 43 to 104 years.
An insulin overdose can result in hypoglycemia, elevate your heartbeat and even result in coronary heart assaults.
She was initially charged in May final yr for killing two sufferers and the police investigation that adopted led to a number of different expenses in opposition to her.
Victims’ households instructed the court docket the killer nurse “tried to play God” together with her ailing and aged sufferers who weren’t able to die. In the previous, coworkers had flagged her conduct, saying she displayed hate for her sufferers and would typically make derogatory feedback about them.
In textual content messages to her mom, Pressdee mentioned her unhappiness with sufferers, colleagues and even individuals she met at eating places. She typically spoke about eager to hurt them.
In court docket, she pressed to please responsible. When one among her attorneys requested her why she was pleading responsible, Pressdee replied, “Because I am guilty.”
“She is just not sick. She is just not insane. She is evil personified. I regarded into the face of Satan myself the morning she killed my father,” one of many victims’ relations instructed the court docket.
While she was disciplined for her behaviour, she labored quite a few jobs in nursing houses from 2018 until 2023 when her license was suspended after preliminary expenses
Pressdee is amongst a number of different healthcare employees who’ve been convicted of killing their sufferers. Charles Cullen, killed at the very least 29 nursing dwelling sufferers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, by administering lethal doses of insulin. William Davis, a Texas nurse injected air into the arteries of 4 sufferers after they underwent coronary heart surgical procedure.