 The hospital was found to have lacked properly functioning supervision mechanisms to deal with the deaths of newborns, and the murders were discovered only because she killed two children in one day and their corpses were properly examined.No responsible physician or administrator was charged or even demoted, and the whole affair was kept secret from the public for decades.Fikáčková was sentenced to death, and was executed by hanging at Pankrác Prison in Prague on 13 April 1961.