Nurse Jailed for 10 Years for Killing Patient With Overdose of Painkillers

Published May 24, 2010

New drug-treatment facility for Camden
Freida Morton, a 43-year-old grandmother hooked on crack, set down the box of food she had just collected at a food pantry, leaned against a car, and looked up at the gleaming new building in front of her.

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Nurse jailed for 10 years for killing patient with overdose of painkillers
Rachel Baker gave 97-year-old Lucy Cox lethal doses of a drug she had not been prescribed because of a twisted desire to control her ‘terminal destiny’.

Nurse Jailed for 10 Years for Killing Patient With Overdose of Painkillers

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