The Civil Police is investigating six rapes that may have been committed by the anesthesiologist Giovanni Quintela Bezerra during surgical procedures. Five cases would have occurred in the same unit where the rape was caught, last Sunday, in São João de Meriti. The other case would have happened at the Hospital Estadual da Mãe in Mesquita, also in Baixada Fluminense, in Rio de Janeiro.
This Tuesday (12), the Justice of Rio de Janeiro maintained the arrest of the anesthetist. He will be held in preventive detention and should be sent to the Bangu 8 prison, in the Gericinó Complex, in the North Zone of Rio.
Three victims went to the Police Station for Assistance to Women, in Baixada Fluminense, to give testimony, this Tuesday (12). The patient’s husband caught in the video made by the nursing team must still be heard.
Delegate Bárbara Lomba said, during a press conference, that the suspicions began about a month ago, when members of the nursing team noticed the anesthesiologist’s strange behavior during the surgeries.
Upon noticing the atypical attitudes, one of the nursing technicians started to stay close to the doctor during the procedures. The technician told the police in a statement that the doctor showed discomfort with her presence and sometimes tried to intimidate her.
“He started to look at her intimidatingly, treat her harshly, implying that she shouldn’t be in the room. That is: putting some pressure on her, so that she would feel uncomfortable and leave the room. Once he also closed that cloak in front of her, because she was watching […] He was trying to push these people away and exercise power,” the delegate explained.
Lomba also reported that the doctors who participated in the surgery last Sunday (10) said that they did not realize the act, but were surprised by the sedation that the victims received. According to doctors, it is something unusual. The Police will investigate whether there was a breach of protocols, which would characterize obstetric violence.
The Civil Police is trying to find out how many surgeries the anesthesiologist participated in to find out if there are other victims.
THE CNN still trying to locate the anesthesiologist’s defense. Giovanni Quintella Bezerra was arrested in the act after co-workers filmed him raping a drugged patient for a cesarean section. The arrest took place in the early hours of last Monday, at the Women’s Hospital, in São João de Meriti.
Source: CNN Brasil