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Lucy Letby’s White Privilege Is The Reason She Could Kill So Many Babies
Or why the idea that “whiteness” equals innocence is so wrong
She is white and she is a cold-blooded murderer. Lucy Letby sadistically killed seven babies and attempted to kill six more. She worked as a neonatal nurse at the Countess Chester Hospital in Manchester, UK.
If she was Black or brown and so many babies had died or whose health had deteriorated on her watch, she would have been investigated after the very first death.
No one would have waited until she killed six babies before starting an investigation. The fact that she was white played a huge role in how she literally got away with murder, or more accurately, multiple murders, for many years.
Today, many parents are grieving the loss of their babies because the National Health Service (NHS) staff, hospital management, and many others assumed that Letby couldn’t be a murderer. In their minds like in so many others, it was unfathomable that she could ever harm anyone, let alone the neonates entrusted to her care.
The stereotypes associated with white women: purity, innocence, gentleness, and non-violence, are the reasons why even if some suspected she was linked to the deaths, her bosses, didn’t take action fast enough.
