De Berk (other)
De Berk (''The Birch Tree'') may refer to People *Lucia de Berk (born 1961), Dutch nurse wrongfully convicted of murder Places * De Berk, North Brabant, Netherlands Windmills *De Berk, Drenthe De Berk (English: '' The Birch'') is a smock mill in Barger-Compascuum, Netherlands. It was built in 1983. History De Berk was originally built c. 1850 at Drantum, Lower Saxony, Germany. It was rebuilt after a fire in 1870. (Click on "Geschieden ...

Lucia De Berk
Lucia de Berk (born September 22, 1961, in The Hague, Netherlands), often called Lucia de B., is a Dutch licensed paediatric nurse who was the subject of a miscarriage of justice. In 2003, she was sentenced to life imprisonment, for which no parole is possible under Dutch law, for four murders and three attempted murders of patients under her care. In 2004, after an appeal, she was convicted of seven murders and three attempted murders. Her conviction was controversial in the media and by scientists, and it was questioned by the investigative reporter Peter R. de Vries. In October 2008, the case was reopened by the Dutch Supreme Court, as new facts had been uncovered that undermined the previous verdicts. De Berk was freed, and her case retried; she was exonerated in April 2010. Charges As a result of an unexpected death of a baby in the (JKZ, Juliana Children's Hospital) in The Hague on 4 September 2001, earlier deaths and cardiopulmonary resuscitations were scrutinised. Be ...
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