An anaesthetist has been arrested for allegedly raping a
pregnant woman during a C-section and he is also reported to have
carried out attacks on two more mothers on the same day.
Giovanni Quintella Bezerra, 32, was apprehended on suspicion of rape
after he was reportedly secretly filmed orally raping a woman after he
heavily sedated her at the Hospital da Mulher in SĂŁo JoĂŁo de Meriti, Rio
de Janeiro.
The woman’s husband was asked to leave the room and only found out
about what had happened to his wife when he recognized the doctor on
television after his arrest.
“I’ve never seen anything like it,” said delegate Barbara Lomba, who is in charge of investigating the case.
The woman shared with her family that she thought she was having a hallucination at the time of the sexual attack.
Hospital staff were reportedly worried about the amount of drugs
Bezerra was giving to his patients. The doctor is said to have used so
much anaesthetic that the mothers would be unable to hold their babies
after delivering.
So, suspicious staff members fitted a secret camera to see what he
was up to. They were horrified to see him sexually assaulting the woman.
He reportedly assaulted her sexually for almost ten minutes.
Staff members who recorded the rape said the doctor had already
carried out two similar procedures that day, with police investigating
whether those two women were also victims of attack.
In the second operation on Sunday, July 10, employees said Giovanni “wore
an open cloak on himself, widening his silhouette, and positioned
himself in a way that also prevented anyone from seeing the patient from
the neck up.”
In most C-sections the woman is not fully sedated during the
procedure, but the women who went under the knife earlier in the day
said they were fully unconscious during the procedure.
One of the patients said: “The only thing I remember from the
surgery is his voice. He kept talking softly in my ear, it bothered me.
He asked if I was okay.”
Two other people who said they were also Bezerra’s patients have
arrived at the police station in Brazil since the accusations came to
light.
“Giovanni, still
positioned towards the patient’s neck and head, started, with his left
arm bent, slow movements back and forth,” the witness said, according to
G1 Rio de Janeiro.
“From the movement and the curvature of the arm, it looked like he was holding the patient’s head towards his pelvic region.”
The doctor was earlier transferred to the prison of Benfica. The
custody hearing of the doctor was held on Tuesday, July 12. He is facing
charges of rape with a prison sentence ranging from 8 to 15 years in
Brazil.
Source: yabaleftonline.ng
