Budapest
A nurse who killed at least eight of her patients at a Budapest hospital three years ago was sentenced this week to nine years in prison. Hungarian newspapers dubbed 25-year-old Timea Faludi the “Black Angel” because of her long, black hair and Gothic attire. After her colleagues noticed a high mortality rate during her shifts, Faludi confessed to giving lethal injections to 40 elderly patients. She said she wanted to help them end their suffering. But Faludi later retracted the confession, and police could link only eight deaths definitively to her. Euthanasia is illegal in Hungary.
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