Thursday, June 19, 2025 - A nurse has been sentenced to life in prison for k!lling five babies and attempting to murd£r eight others at a hospital in Argentina.
Brenda Cecilia Aguero injected potassium and insulin into
newborns between March and June 2022, taking doses from emergency medical carts
without inventory control, prosecutors said.
Under Argentine law, Aguero will not be eligible for parole
before serving 35 years.
The court clerk read out the sentencing in footage
broadcast on local media on Wednesday.
The babies, all born healthy, d!ed under initially
unexplained circumstances at the neonatal ward of the maternal and child
hospital in Cordoba province, 370 miles (600 km) northwest of Buenos Aires.
Eight others survived due to swift medical
intervention
The trial also brought charges against 10 other defendants
including former provincial officials and health professionals for cover-up and
dereliction of duty.
Those charged included a former health minister and
secretary of health of Cordoba province, as well as the former hospital
director.
Aguero, who was arrested in 2022, denied the charges,
earlier telling the court "they have no evidence" and accusing media
of portraying her as a "serial killer."
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