Madness

I present the following as a sign that there are people out there in the world whose acts border on the insane - not to mention criminal: Babies found gagged in Russian hospital.

The latest auteur is Elena Kuritsyna, whose cellphone camera work has launched an investigation into a hospital in the southern Ural town of Yekaterinburg, Russia, where staff had apparently taken to dealing with the cries of infant orphans by gagging them.

There can be no excuse for such behavior, and yet the Russian hospital claims that it did so because it was understaffed and that the nurses needed peace and quiet.