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How did Sister Godfrida's peccadilloes escape the attention of officials? Dr. De Corte, who instigated the investigation that uncovered the murders, suggested that there had been a conspiracy of silence about the nun. She had finally been suspended last August and dispatched to a Ghent hospital, where she underwent an unsuccessful drug cure. Someone —police suspect the roommate, who visited her at the hospital—provided drugs during her stay. At a press conference, Dr. De Corte revealed that in January, when she returned unchanged, the geriatric-ward nurses decided to confront the hospital administrator with their growing diary of horrors. "When 21 out of 38 die in one year," admitted De Corte, "it is too much." Besides, the diary contained entries of Godfrida-administered "tortures," like ripping catheter tubes out of bladders.
Sister Godfrida last week was undergoing psychiatric tests. If she is found to be mentally unstable, she may never come to trial.