Abraão José Bueno (born 30 November 1976) is a Brazilian

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and

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. In 2005 he was sentenced to 110 years imprisonment for the murder of four children and the attempted murder of another four.''Ex-enfermeiro que matou crianças em hospital do Rio é condenado a 110 anos''
(in Portuguese)

Crimes

Bueno worked as a nurse in the Instituto de Puericultura Martagão Gesteira of the

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(UFRJ) in

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, Brazil. In 2005 Bueno, working in a children's ward, began injecting babies and older children with overdoses of

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s, causing them to stop breathing. He would then call medical staff to resuscitate them. In the course of one month up to fifteen children are thought to have been targeted, all between the ages of one and ten. Many suffered from

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and

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.''Preso suspeito de intoxicar crianças''
(in Portuguese) Bueno was arrested November 11, 2005. On 15 May 2008''Ex-técnico de enfermagem pega 110 anos por matar crianças no Rio''
(in Portuguese) he was found guilty by judge Valéria Caldi on four counts of murder and four counts of attempted murder. He was sentenced to 110 years in total. It is thought that Bueno committed his crimes so that he could be the first to notice a problem with a patient, thereby earning the respect and admiration of his co-workers.

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