Justice Uruguay said nurses not killed patients by mercy
MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) – Uruguayan Justice ruled out on Wednesday that the nurses who murdered 15 patients applying them morphine and air over the past two years have done for piety, as they had been arguing in the interrogation. Two nurses were charged on Sunday with prison by especially aggravated homicide in real repetition, after a police investigation of two months that began after the anonymous complaint of a colleague. A third person was processed by complicity. "(…)Incorporated into the process test allows to deduce the intention to kill. “It’s nurses with vast experience in their profession who applied substances which quickly carried the death”, argued the judge, Rolando Vomero, in the indictment, which agreed in Reuters. To the nurses Marcelo Pereira y Ariel Acevedo were awarded the deaths of five to ten people, respectively. Both played in the private Spanish Association, as Pereira also worked in the public hospital Maciel. Defendants declared that they sedaban their patients from makes at least “a year or a year and a half” in a case and another from “a couple of years” to prevent them suffering. “By intravenous means applied air directly to the path of the patient (…)” Not at random, it was patients in terminal stage. “In which he and the family, in my view, were in a continuous suffering”, said Acevedo during interrogation. “my intention was not stop life,...
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