The nurse Brenda Agueroarrested and charged by death of five children born healthy at the Ramón Carrillo Maternal and Neonatal Hospital in Córdobadissociated this tuesday surprisingly and without reasons to your lawyer for the case. It is not known who will be his new lawyer.
The situation has attracted attention. The lawyer Luis Obregón had called for this Wednesdayat a press conference expose the progress of the investigation and disclose details of the procedural situation of your defendant. However, Agüero declined to execute itaccording to the agency telam.
Prosecutor Raúl Garzón expanded the charge against the nurse on October 31, accusing her of “qualified murder by the use of insidious means” on the five children who died between March and May of this year, all of which occurred in the maternal and neonatal hospital of the Cordovan capital.
She too was prosecuted and placed in custody as an alleged perpetrator of the same crime in the degree of “attempt” on eight surviving newborns.
Agüero would have been investigated this Monday for these new crimes. However, his counsel had asked that the motion be postponed to next week due to scheduled commitments to other lawsuits in which he participates.
This is the second lawyer that Agüero changes in the time taken by the investigation. Luis Pareja, the first defender of the nurse, had resigned in September. Obregón had assumed that role on Tuesday when he was released by the nurse herself.
As part of the investigation, in the first week of September, the Argentina Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) exhumed the bodies of three children for submission Education and try to determine the identities and causes of their deaths.
The exhumations corresponded to babies who died on the same day they were born, March 18, April 23 and May 23 throughout the year.
Prosecutor Garzón had opened an investigation in August on the basis of complaints presented in June, about five cases of “suspicious deaths” of babies born healthy at the provincial neonatal hospital.
With information from the Télam agency
