Guilty! Dr. Red Cross Sentenced Life in Prision · 3:47am Sep 25th, 2024
Fillydephia, Equestria
The trial of the century came to an end yesterday when a jury convicted Dr. Red Cross, finding him guilty of all counts of malicious malpractice, tampering with evidence, false imprisonment, torture, abuse towards patients and foals alike, first and second-degree murder, numerous accounts of serious injury, and lying to patient and their families.
Judge Fair Balance, after the conviction, had remarked before giving the sentence. "In my twenty years of serving on the bench, this case is the grossest abuse of power. The grossest betrayal of public and private trust under the guise of medicine, the likes of which make this particular case the most disgusting to date. In any other kingdom, your actions during your time at a mental hospital would have earned you the death penalty. In Equestria, however, I can only give you the maximum punishment I could muster."
Red Cross was to be stripped of his medical degree and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Last year, Red Cross had run the privately run Sanctuary Mental Hospital until an anonymous escaped patient had exposed the true horrors of the sadistic staff there. Red Cross had ordered a cover-up for their practices by destroying their official records but were intervened just in time by authorities.
The investigation that was launched and the trial that came about exposed the true horrors hidden from the public. Those who were committed to the hospital and the orphans who were housed there suffered countless abuses. It quickly became a breeding ground for medical students to conduct whatever experiments they wanted. However, those who paid that fee sometimes didn't do so for medical knowledge.
"Sometimes the medical students we get would pay us to spend some time with one of the patients there." According to the testimony of Nurse Crimson. "There was a one in four chance that the patient or foal was probably assaulted in some way. And just as much chance that they would end up killed somehow. Of course, due to our policy, we write it off as a medical misadventure. Personally, I wouldn't be surprised if one or two of those students might have been serial killers."
The horrors revealed in the trial didn't stop with medical students. One powerful emotional testimony from a patient named Rosey Cheeks was operated on without anesthesia when the victim was in tears as she recounted her trauma. "I wanted to scream at them to stop," she said, "but they gagged me and just went on cutting and cutting until I passed out."
This was merely the tip of the iceberg in the long, long list of those who testified. Mountains of evidence ranging from the instruments used at the hospital to photographs of burns, cuts, and scares showed the unneeded surgeries, cruel experiments, and even a film that shocked the court where Dr. Red Cross personally performed a lobotomy on a ten-year-old colt.
When it was Red Cross's turn to take the stand, he insisted that everything that he and the hospital staff had done was for the good of society. When questioned if he ever cared about the families of patients who had sent their loved ones to be cured, he stunned the court with his honesty when he said: "In any other hospital, of course, there would be those who care about if the patient makes a full recovery. But at ours, an insane asylum, do you honestly think that the patients who were sent there have that same expectation? No. This is a place where the outcasts, the difficult, the unwanted are sent. Ponies that if they were all to suddenly drop dead, no one would be given any notice. No one had asked so much as a wake when they passed on. No one came to the hospital to demand their so-called loved one back. I find it more remarkable that any of you care now when you actually realize what our treatments are to those only months ago didn't want to so much as care or think about."
When asked if there was anything he regretted during his reign at the hospital, he said coldly. "My only regret is that I didn't give the colt who tattled on us a lobotomy."
After the sentence was produced, cheers were heard in the back of the courtroom.
Interviews were given to the patients who had suffered from Red Cross's treatment. One patient who didn't testify, a stallion that wishes to remain anonymous said it best: "What disturbs me is that Dr. Red Cross had done all of this, while he was teaching those students. I shudder to imagine what sort of lessons he was passing on, and those who might have taken it to heart."
October 1st.
Holy shit this was so real.
As much of a piece of shit as Red Cross is, his words are *real.* Yeah sure maybe not every single family didn't care so it's not a totally accurate blanket statement. But *wow* is that real.
Curious what Red Cross was working on. Good riddance, but I'm still INCREDIBLY curious.
What I'm especially curious about is if someone took justice into their own hands and murdered him after his trial was done. That life imprisonment is pretty severe, but in an ordinary prison circumstance someone would kill someone like him. 9/10 chance anyway, given the context of his sentencing and all the proof and tallies levied against him.
Clearly whatever he was working on led to a such an intense toxic miasma in the area that it's not just haunted, but also mentally and likely physically toxic as well. I don't think *just* vengeful spirits can cause that.
I'm also curious if the hospital staff had to actively create wards to keep the vengeful spirits suppressed at any points in time, and about when the toxicity started to bubble to the surface after it was closed down. Was it soon before? After? Is that what Red Cross was trying to put a stop to? Why that location for the hospital? Piece of shit or not, a lot of relevant questions. Glad the colt escaped though, especially as there isn't much of a mystery if the entire situation wasn't found.
Hopefully others learned a thing or two about accepting things at complacent face value and letting societal washouts just drop into a psyche hospital in this universe without a second's glance under the surface.