A 25-year-old girl denounced that she was also poisoned by Antonio Fermín García alias Rafael, 28, who is in prison on charges of intoxicating three other women, one of whom died.
According to the victims, the man began conversations with the women while they were awaiting medical attention at the José María Cabral and Báez hospitals, in the Santiago province, and San Vicente de Paul in the Duarte province, where he was arrested after he poisoned a woman. 26-year-old woman, allegedly to steal her belongings.
In a telephone conversation with Diario Libre, the 25-year-old said that she was attacked on December 18 in the waiting room of the Emergency Unit of the José María Cabral y Báez hospital, a center where on November 13 the accused allegedly poisoned Maximina de los Santos and Martha Durán, who died hours after ingesting the powerful poison, thrown by man in a tea.
Days after this first event, the Cabral y Báez management said that they had reinforced their security, although they denied that the incident occurred inside the hospital, as they did reveal the images from their surveillance cameras and reinforced the testimony of the survivor.
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The complainant, who requested that her name be reserved, provided this medium with a video from the hospital security camera, which captured the moment when Antonio Fermín García spoke with her and then left when she realized that the woman began to feel the effects of poison, after ingesting a coffee.
The girl said that she was losing consciousness and that alias Rafael offered to seek help, taking her cell phone and promising that she would call her relatives to notify her of her health, which was recorded.
The health personnel of the center are then observed helping the young woman.
An aunt of the 25-year-old woman told Diario Libre that her relative was hospitalized for three days, and that she verified that it was the same man when she saw the photo of Fermín García published in Diario Libre, when the authorities announced about his capture.
He assured that it is the detainee in San Francisco de Macorís and is corroborated by the videos of the surveillance cameras, where the suspect is seen with his niece, as well as walking down the corridor in an apparent suspicious attitude.
The victim said that he will file the complaint against the suspect.
The chief prosecutor of Santiago, magistrate Francisco Núñez, said that Antonio Fermín García will be subjected in this judicial district of Santiago, after he is processed in San Francisco de Macorís, where they will know his submission for the poisoning of the young Esthefany Louis, who remained hospitalized after ingesting a juice that García would have given her.
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