***Trigger Warning: The following episode of Good Nurse Bad Nurse contains sensitive information of domestic violence and sexual abuse. Discretion is advised.

This week Nurse Keith is back to guest host a very special episode of Good Nurse Bad Nurse. In this episode, we will be bringing awareness to the problem of survivors of domestic abuse being criminalized. They open the show with the story of Brent Mott, a nurse from Merseyside, UK. Brent and his wife Kate had reached the end of their marriage and divorce loomed on the horizon. On the night of January 21, 2010, a physical altercation erupted between the couple. Brent claimed that he was returning home from an evening out when Kate, also a nurse, lunged at him with a peeler knife during an argument over the divorce proceedings. Brent alleged that his actions that followed stemmed from self-defense.  

The good nurse story is an update to a story we previously did on nurse practitioner Tracy McCarter. Tracy's community defense team reached out to us to let us know that while we mostly discussed correct information, there were some parts that we got wrong. They gave us a couple of articles that contain more accurate information for us to reference. 

Tracy had divorced her abusive husband and was living in her own apartment. After a night of drinking, he came to her apartment after locking himself out of his own. He became enraged at one point and was injured by a knife Tracy had picked up to defend herself against him. Tracy immediately got help and began trying to offer aid to him. McCarter was arrested and held without bail on Rikers Island for six months. On September 2020 her case was submitted before a grand jury by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. She was indicted for second-degree murder and manslaughter and released to home confinement and electronic monitoring where she still is trying to fight for her freedom. 

Tracy's daughter Ariel joins Tina and Nurse Keith to discuss Tracy's case and help shed some light on her mother's story and others' like hers.

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Credits

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/aug/11/nurse-killed-wife-jailed

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2089370/Police-apologise-family-nurse-murdered-estranged-husband-weeks-staff-dismissed-harassment-quarrel.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-10938564

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-10931373

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/jan/20/nurse-husband-   failed-police-ipcc

https://gothamist.com/news/attorneys-raise-body-camera-evidence-questions-manhattan-self-defense-murder-case?fbclid=IwAR0KyVDAHbxYLJOGgCFGznoMzVVOde5F4oINjSchN4K7006qAaqC1vbKjZA

https://theintercept.com/2021/05/24/manhattan-district-attorney-domestic-violence-tracey-mccarter/?fbclid=IwAR2EeSzDziYxdR4ZGsWOdT3XEq56gmfXoxi23sZCiiZ0ue7QwAvgI_2Bx4c

https://survivedandpunished.org/?fbclid=IwAR31XOLYucwJTH4pD8pqYp9nSKJM9EuoiV4APY3PFnxqP5m7oOy-w5aoWZY