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The families of seven elderly people murdered by a former nursing assistant at a veterans hospital who injected each one with over-the-counter insulin and killed them, with no known reason yet. they know that Reta Mays will spend the rest of her life in prison for those murders.
The former nursing assistant received the multiple life sentences for the murder of seven elderly veterans , after he admitted last year to intentionally using fatal insulin injections to kill the men, at a veterans medical center in West Virginia , reported NPR.
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Reta Mays, from 46 years, received seven more consecutive life sentences 20 years on Tuesday, after he pleaded guilty in federal court in July last year, of seven counts of murder in the second degree and one count of battery with intent to commit murder.
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The United States District Judge, Thomas Kleeh , said evidence showed Mays had conducted Internet searches on serial killers and had seen the Netflix series “Nurses Who Kill”.
At sentencing, Kleeh told Mays “you knew what you were doing” and said she had repeatedly denied her involvement when questioned by investigators.
The deaths of men, aged between 82 and the 96 years, occurred while they were under the care of Mays in 2017 Y 2018, at the Louis A. Johnson Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Clarksburg.
She had been employed in the hospital since 2015 and he was working the night shift when the veterans died of hypoglycemia, Bernard said. Mays was not authorized to give drugs to patients, but later admitted to having administered insulin to several patients with the intention of killing them .
His attorney, Jay McCamic, detailed what he said it was his client’s history of mental illness. He said Mays suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and sexual trauma from his time serving in the military in Iraq in 2003 Y 2004.
“Several times his lawyer has pointed out that he should not be considered a monster,” said Judge Thomas Kleeh to Mays in his sentence. “Respectfully, I do not agree with that. You are the worst kind. You are the monster that nobody sees coming. ”
Prosecutors said that more than 30 relatives of the victims physically attended the hearing and others saw it by videoconference. Melanie Proctor, daughter of Army veteran Felix McDermott , from 82 years, whom Mays killed, spoke in the courtroom.
“You took some of the greatest men of their time, our loved ones, our veterans, and you took advantage of them when they were at their weakest point”, said Proctor . “That is why you are a coward. If you have some morals, you will give other families the peace of mind of knowing the truth of what happened to their loved ones. May God forgive you, as I never will ”.
Randolph J. Bernard, Acting Federal Prosecutor for the Northern District of West Virginia, said in a statement that the case was a collection of “horrible crimes” and that, under the circumstances, achieving justice would be difficult.
“No amount of time in prison will erase the pain and loss experienced by the families of these eight brave and honorable men,” said Bernard . “Mays will now spend every minute of the rest of his life where it belongs, in prison.”
“There are no words I can say that offer comfort to families,” said the former nurse, Reta Mays, in West Virginia court where she was sentenced to seven life sentences, since 20 years for attacking an eighth victim in the same way. “I can only say that I am sorry for the pain I caused those families and mine.”