Abraão José Bueno
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Abraão José Bueno is a Brazil
Brazil
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ian nurse and serial killer
Serial killer
A serial killer, as typically defined, is an individual who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than a month, with down time between the murders, and whose motivation for killing is usually based on psychological gratification...

. In 2005 he was sentenced to 110 years imprisonment for the murder of four children and the attempted murder of another four.

Crimes

Bueno worked as a nurse in the Instituto de Puericultura Martagão Gesteira of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
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, Brazil.

In 2005 Bueno, working in a children's ward, began injecting babies and older children with overdoses of sedative
Sedative
A sedative or tranquilizer is a substance that induces sedation by reducing irritability or excitement....

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 AIDS
AIDS
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...

 and leukaemia.

Bueno was arrested in November 2005. On 15 May 2008 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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