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Serial killer nurse gets life sentence

A former nurse convicted of killing eight elderly residents under her care has been sentenced to life imprisonment on Monday.

Elizabeth Wettlaufer, who worked as a registered nurse for three Ontario care facilities between 2007 and 2016, received the sentence from the Superior Ontario Court of Justice on Monday.

Earlier, Wettlaufer pleaded guilty to eight counts of first-degree murder. She also confessed to four other attempted murders and two assaults.

The victims, aged between 75 to 96 years, were fatally injected with insulin.

The Ontario government has launched an inquiry on the state of elderly care facilities and health workers in Canada at the height of the trial.

“We want to assure the public that Ontario’s 78,000 long-term care residents are safe in their homes. It is our hope that through the inquiry process, we will get the answers we need to help ensure that a tragedy such as this does not happen again,”Ontario attorney general Yasir Naqvi said in a statement as quoted by The Guardian.

Wettlaufer confessed her crimes after checking herself into Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

Photo Credit: Woodstock Sentinel Review

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