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Nurse Lucy Letby will spend the rest of her life behind bars for murdering seven newborn babies and trying to kill another six, a judge ordered on Monday.
本周一，一名法官裁定护士露西·莱特比将在监狱里度过余生，罪名是谋杀7名新生儿，以及试图杀害另外6名新生儿。
She is Britain's most prolific serial child killer in modern times.
她是现代英国历史上杀害儿童最多的连环杀手。
The 33-year-old murdered the five baby boys and two baby girls at the neonatal unit of Countess of Chester hospital in northern England over 13 months from 2015.
从2015年开始的13个月里，这名33岁的凶犯在英格兰北部切斯特伯爵夫人医院的新生儿病房，共谋杀了5名男婴和2名女婴。
She injected the infants with insulin or air, or force fed them milk.
她给婴儿注射了胰岛素或空气，或是强灌他们牛奶。
Letby refused to leave the cells to hear the sentencing delivered by Judge James Goss.
莱特比拒绝离开牢房听取法官詹姆斯·戈斯对她的宣判。
"This was a cruel, calculated and cynical campaign of child murder involving the smallest and most vulnerable of children.
“这是一场残酷的、精心策划的、愤世嫉俗的儿童谋杀行动，受害者涉及最幼龄和最脆弱的孩童。
There was a deep malevolence bordering on sadism in your actions."
你的行为接近于虐待狂，怀有强烈的恶意。”
A handwritten note reading "I AM EVIL, I DID THIS" was found during a police search of her home after her arrest.
在莱特比被捕后，警方在搜查她的家时发现了一张手写的纸条，上面写着“我是恶魔，是我干的”。
Whole life orders are very rare, and only three women in Britain have received such a sentence before.
终身监禁的判决非常罕见，在英国只有三位女性被判处过这样的刑罚。
They include serial killers Myra Hindley and Rosemary West.
其中包括连环杀手迈拉·辛德雷和罗斯玛丽·韦斯特。
The harrowing crimes committed by Letby, who was in her 20s when she carried out her killing spree, have horrified Britain.
莱特比实施疯狂杀戮时才20多岁，她所犯下的令人痛心的罪行震惊了英国。
Earlier the court heard emotional, heart-wrenching statements from the parents of those she murdered and tried to kill.
早些时候，法庭听取了她谋杀和试图杀害的那些婴儿的父母的激动又令人心痛的陈述。
The mother of one murdered baby boy said: "There is no sentence that will ever compare to the excruciating agony that we have suffered as a consequence of your actions."
一名被谋杀男婴的母亲说：“任何判决都无法与你的行为给我们带来的极度痛苦相比。”
