German nurse confesses to 100 murders; could be many more
by Michael Cook | 3 Nov 2018 |
Niels Högel covers his face in the courtroom
As we reported a year ago, a nursing home nurse in Germany has confessed to killing at least 100 patients. Although he is already serving a life sentence for two murders, Niels Högel appeared in court this week to face charges that he killed another 100 patients.
When asked by the presiding judge whether this was true, Högel responded: "Yes."
The judge said that the goal of this trial was to determine the full scope of the murders that were allowed to go unchecked for years. "We will do our utmost to learn the truth," he said. "It is like a house with dark rooms — we want to bring light into the darkness."
According to the indictment, Högel carried out the murders between February 2000 and June 2005 in two hospitals in the northern German cities of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst. The youngest of his victims was 34 and the oldest was 96.
The truth will probably never be found. A police investigation has determined that the potential number of victims was 322. However, more than a hundred of them have been cremated, making it impossible to perform forensic tests. In all 134 bodies were exhumed, some as far away as Poland and Turkey. Högel had probably "killed between 200 and 300 people," an expert working on the case told Der Spiegel.
Sunday, November 4, 2018
It happened so long ago that the exact details are dim in my mind, but I seem to remember that a nominee for the US Supreme Court nearly failed to score his dream job because of an alleged crime of attempted rape when he was a 17-year-old high school student. There was a huge controversy, wasn’t there? Demonstrations, twitterstorms, talking heads across the nation in a frenzy, politicians grandstanding...
Of course times were different way back then and public figures were held to a higher moral and legal standard. As the saying goes, "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." Nonetheless it is disturbing to read that the Democratic candidate for the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, casually told a journalist for The New Yorker that he assisted his mother to commit suicide in 2002. Assisting a suicide was a crime in California in 2002– and it still is if you are not a doctor. And at the time Newsom was not a callow teenager, but a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
The odd thing about this is that there has been almost no reaction. Assisting a suicide is just as much a crime as attempted rape and in this case Newsom has admitted that he did it. You would think that at least his Republican opponent would seize upon this blithe admission as a golden opportunity to knock off Newsom's Kennedy-esque halo.
But no one seems to care. What more do you need to show that assisted suicide has been normalised in California?
Of course times were different way back then and public figures were held to a higher moral and legal standard. As the saying goes, "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." Nonetheless it is disturbing to read that the Democratic candidate for the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, casually told a journalist for The New Yorker that he assisted his mother to commit suicide in 2002. Assisting a suicide was a crime in California in 2002– and it still is if you are not a doctor. And at the time Newsom was not a callow teenager, but a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
The odd thing about this is that there has been almost no reaction. Assisting a suicide is just as much a crime as attempted rape and in this case Newsom has admitted that he did it. You would think that at least his Republican opponent would seize upon this blithe admission as a golden opportunity to knock off Newsom's Kennedy-esque halo.
But no one seems to care. What more do you need to show that assisted suicide has been normalised in California?
 Michael Cook Editor BioEdge |  |  |  |
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