Within the framework of the judicial investigation into the deaths of babies at the Neonatal Hospital of Cordovathis Monday there was a novelty in the case, since the justice decided to extend the accusations.
Prosecutor Raúl Garzón, in charge of the investigation in the provincedecided to extend the accusations for the crime of “ideological falsehood” to a nurse and two former directors of the Maternal Neonatal Hospital of Cordova.
In the case of nurse Brenda Agüero, 27, detained since August 19 by the authorities of Cordova, the accusation was extended for “ideological falsehood”, after being accused of “repeated aggravated homicide by insidious procedure”.
While Liliana Asis, former director of the Neonatal; Marta Gómez Flores former head of the Neonatology Service; and Adriana Morales, former head of the Department of that same area, who are accused of alleged omission of duties as a public official, now added that of ideological falsehood.
The accused will present their statements between Tuesday and Thursday of this week, before the prosecutor Garzón. The first to testify will be Asis, who will be accompanied by her lawyer, Franco Vitozzi.
For their part, on Thursday Marta Gómez Flores and Adriana Morales, who are also accused of the crime of omission of the duties of public officials, will testify after the extension of the accusation.
It should be remembered that the prosecutor decreed summary secrecy in the case, a measure that could be lifted when the statements of the accused are finished, so that each of the parties can access the evidence.
Five babies died between March and June this year
According to official data, between the months of March and June, five newborn babies in the province they died unexpectedly, and after performing autopsies on two, it was revealed that the deaths were provoked.
The authorities indicated in their first report that the minors died due to “hyperkalemia” which was caused by “due to intentionally injected excess potassium”, since “other pathologies, error and malpractice were ruled out”.
