The Justice decided to extend the accusations for the crime of “ideological falsehood” to a nurse and two former directors of the Ramón Carrillo Maternal Neonatal Hospital, in the city of Córdoba, within the framework of the investigation into the death of babies born healthy in that care center province, reported a source linked to the process.
The case is still kept secret, but a judicial source indicated that the prosecutor Raúl Garzón, in charge of the investigation, decided to extend the accusation for “ideological falsehood” to the nurse Brenda Agüero27, detained since August 19 and charged with “repeated aggravated homicide by insidious procedure”, to which he will now also add in degree of “attempt”.
Agüero is accused of intentionally inoculating babies with toxic substances that later caused her death.
The new accusation also reaches the former director of the “Ramón Carrillo” Maternal Neonatal Hospital Liliana Asís and the former head of the Neonatology area Marta Gómez Floreswho are charged with the crimes of “omission of the duties of a public official.”
As anticipated, the prosecutor Garzón will investigate, in the course of this week, the two former directors.
With regard to the detained nurse, the extension of the accusation of “repeated aggravated homicide by insidious procedure, to an attempted degree”, is related to the babies who were also intentionally inoculated with toxic substances and survived, which, in principle, will be eight.
The lawyer Daniela Morales Leanza, legal representative of one of the mothers of one of the surviving babies who was born on June 6 of this year, told Télam that María is one of those who requested the extension of the accusation against the nurse.
“We are the plaintiff and we had requested the expansion of the attempted murder for the nurse,” said the lawyer, adding that they have already provided documentary evidence to “prove that hypothesis.”
In this context, he said that among the documentary evidence presented are analyzes that “confirm the intentional inoculation of potassium” which, he said, left sequels to the baby.
He indicated that since then he has been undergoing “physiotherapy and dermatological treatment for punctures in the back that later turned into bruises and then necrosis” of the skin.
“The mother had a controlled pregnancy and her baby was born healthy. When she was born, they took her to control her and then they return her with punctures, then comes the decompensation, ”she said.
The judicial investigation was known on August 11 based on reports of the deaths of five healthy babies born between March and June.
According to official data, the babies’ deaths occurred on March 18, April 23, May 23 and another two on June 6 this year.
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Preliminary expert reports determined that the death of two babies, born on June 6, occurred due to “hyperkalaemia” that was caused by “excess potassium intentionally injected”, since other pathologies, error and misuse were ruled out. praxis.
The Provincial Minister of Health, Diego Cardozo, had to resign on August 25 after the questions received for not having denounced the fact before the Justice because, according to the investigation, in March he was already aware of what was happening and only an internal administrative summary had been initiated.
Gabriela Barbás, who was in charge of the Secretary for Prevention and Health Promotion of that portfolio, took over in her place.
In a related case, the Justice is investigating whether any judicial official had also been notified about the suspicious deaths of the babies and did not act on it.
