{"id":174564,"date":"2025-06-11T02:59:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T02:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/174564\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T02:59:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T02:59:21","slug":"midwife-struck-off-after-claiming-vaccines-attacked-babies-and-were-a-trojan-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/174564\/","title":{"rendered":"Midwife struck off after claiming vaccines \u2018attacked babies\u2019 and were a &#8216;Trojan horse&#8217;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"publish_date\">8 June 2025, 18:07<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Brass name plate \/ plaque outside the offices of The Nursing and Midwifery Council \u2013 NMC at 23 Portland Place London W1B 1PZ. UK. (118)\" class=\"content-image\" data-image-catalogue-id=\"729852\" width=\"660\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/729852\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>    Brass name plate \/ plaque outside the offices of The Nursing and Midwifery Council \u2013 NMC at 23 Portland Place London W1B 1PZ. UK. (118).<\/p>\n<p>        Picture: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alamy.com\/stock-photo-brass-name-356669879.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nAlamy<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"standfirst\">A midwife has been struck off the register after posting claims on social media that vaccinations attacked babies while in their mother\u2019s womb during pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Seana Mary Kerr, of Newry, Northern Ireland, also told a pregnant woman in a shop that she should not be wearing a face mask during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) tribunal panel judgment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Ms Kerr, who had been a registered midwife since 2007, was found by a panel to have placed the woman at \u201csignificant risk of harm\u201d with her views, while she had \u201crisked seriously undermining the public confidence\u201d in her profession at a crucial time with her posts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">In the first of three social media posts in September 2020, Ms Kerr said that babies were being attacked in the womb through vaccination of mothers during pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Then, in March 2021, she claimed healthcare professionals were being \u201ccomplicit\u201d in the national response to Covid-19, and that the health crisis was \u201ca Trojan horse intend[ed] to introduce a new era for humanity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">A further post in December that year made reference to how a group of people, described as \u201cthey\u201d, had been \u201cplanting the seeds\u201d about Covid-19 over Christmas 2020 by referring to \u201csome bat in China\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lbc.co.uk\/usa\/politics\/la-riots-ice-trump-protests-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Read more: National Guard arrives in LA to quell immigration protests as Trump accused of &#8216;sowing chaos&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lbc.co.uk\/politics\/uk-politics\/white-house-starmer-chinese-super-embassy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Read more: White House &#8216;deeply concerned&#8217; as it urges Starmer to block plans for Chinese &#8216;super-embassy&#8217; in London<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Brass name plate \/ plaque outside the offices of The Nursing and Midwifery Council \u2013 NMC at 23 Portland Place London W1B 1PZ. UK. (118)\" class=\"content-image\" data-image-catalogue-id=\"729852\" width=\"660\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/729852\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>    Brass name plate \/ plaque outside the offices of The Nursing and Midwifery Council \u2013 NMC at 23 Portland Place London W1B 1PZ. UK. (118).<\/p>\n<p>        Picture: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alamy.com\/stock-photo-brass-name-356669879.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nAlamy<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Ms Kerr\u2019s advice and social media comments were given when she had identified herself as a midwife and was \u201cpromoting her opinion on matters of clinical importance\u201d, the panel found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">\u201cThe panel considered that the actions of Ms Kerr took place during an exceptionally unusual time, where the entirety of the NHS was mobilised to protect the public from the international Covid-19 pandemic,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">\u201cTherefore, by expressing the view that other healthcare professionals, who Ms Kerr was working with in the Trust, were acting in ways which may cause harm, a view Ms Kerr held which was against the recognised guidance at the time, Ms Kerr risked seriously undermining the public confidence in the profession.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">\u201cIt further noted that by making these accusations that Ms Kerr\u2019s colleagues may have suffered harm while working in an unprecedented and challenging situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">The midwife approached the pregnant woman in the shop, which was her place of work, during the other allegation in question in August 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">She identified herself as a midwife before advising the woman that she should not be wearing the face mask as it reduced the amount of oxygen her baby was receiving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Ms Kerr went on to tell the woman that she should not receive a flu vaccination as this would increase the risk of her baby being stillborn.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Offices of The Nursing and Midwifery Council \u2013 NMC at 23 Portland Place London W1B 1PZ. UK. (143)\" class=\"content-image\" data-image-catalogue-id=\"729853\" width=\"660\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/729853\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>    Offices of The Nursing and Midwifery Council \u2013 NMC at 23 Portland Place London W1B 1PZ. UK. (143).<\/p>\n<p>        Picture: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alamy.com\/stock-photo-offices-of-644599919.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nAlamy<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">The panel found the pregnant woman and her family were caused \u201csignificant emotional harm\u201d as a result of Ms Kerr\u2019s behaviour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">\u201cThe panel noted that it is a reasonable expectation of everyone working in a public environment, such as a shop, that they will not be approached and given personal, clinical advice and that such advice would normally only be given during a private clinical appointment or at an antenatal class,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">\u201cTherefore, by approaching Patient A in her place of work, outside a clinical relationship, unsolicited, Ms Kerr placed her at significant risk of harm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">The panel found Ms Kerr\u2019s fitness to practise was still impaired and that there was a risk of the individual repeating her behaviour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Ms Kerr did not show any remorse for her misconduct or demonstrate any insight into her previous actions, and had not engaged with the NMC since June 2022, the panel said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">It made an order to strike Ms Kerr\u2019s name from the register, after a 12-month suspension order had previously been imposed last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"8 June 2025, 18:07 Brass name plate \/ plaque outside the offices of The Nursing and Midwifery Council&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-174564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114662497670115802","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}