Former VA Medical Worker Pleads Guilty To Murdering 7 Patients In West Virginia

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Source: NPR

A former nursing assistant at a medical center for veterans in West Virginia has pleaded guilty to seven counts of second-degree murder and one count of assault with the intent to commit murder.

Reta Mays, 46, appeared in federal court Tuesday and admitted to killing the patients at the Louis A. Johnson Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Clarksburg by injecting them with insulin. She also admitted injecting an eighth patient in order to kill him.

Prosecutors requested that Mays, who is from Harrison County, where Clarksburg is located, serve seven consecutive life sentences and an additional 20-year prison term.

Mays worked the night shift from 2015 to 2018 at the medical center, in a ward that housed many patients who had diabetes, according to the charging documents. A nursing assistant was not required to have a license or certification to work at this VA medical center.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2020/07/14/890776010/former-va-medical-worker-charged-with-7-murders-in-west-virginia

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1. jeezus H.C. Vets have enough problems. Don't they screen these "providers"?

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3. No screening, no license or cert., psycho murderer busy doing evil

From article, "A nursing assistant was not required to have a license or certification to work at this VA medical center."

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6. Yeah. I re-read it and caught that after posting. Un-believable.

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2. Jesus, how did this psych killer murder these poor vets

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4. I don't know. How did a psycho killer get elected president?

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5. How did he get a highly successful TV reality show

that people ate up for what 11 years? Sociopaths are prevalent, come in many types and personalities, and are frequently charismatic, intelligent and well liked. They're also usually skilled at concealment, deceit and lying, awa ruthless and cold blooded. For all these reasons and more they get over. Bernie Madoff, Ted Bundy, Jim Jones, Bill Cosby.

I didn't realize how dangerous and common they were until some years ago. But I would never have been taken in by The Apprentice, the show character or president.