Doctor who raped patients may have claimed more than 20 victims, police say
dailystar.co.ukinvestigated for up to thirty similar offences, police in Brazil have said. Anaesthesiologist Giovanni Quintella Bezerra was arrested at the Women's Hospital in Sao Joao de Meriti, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, in the early hours of Monday, July 11.Suspicious staff at the hospital are said to have secretly filmed him allegedly sexually assaulting a patient whose C-section surgery he was participating in. READ MORE: Brit captured in Ukraine dies as pro-Russian captors blame 'medical condition'Now, it has transpired that the sick doc is being investigated for between 20 and 30 alleged rapes against pregnant women during labour.Portal do Holanda in Brazil reported yesterday, July 14, that police believe that the doctor may have taken advantage of 20 women, at the State Hospital of Mãe de Mesquita, in addition to the suspected cases at the Women's Hospital in São João de Meriti, in Rio de Janeiro.However, on the same day Diario do Nordeste reported that the figure was likely 30 women. "There are still reports.
We need to investigate. There are 30 [women] already identified as possible [victims]", the head delegate of the Police Station for Assistance to Women of São João de Meriti, in Baixada Fluminense, Bárbara Lomba said in a press conference yesterday.
Police are also looking at whether Bezerra applied excessive amounts of medication to potential victims during surgery. For the latest breaking news and stories from across the globe from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletter by clicking here.Testimonies of two possible victims were heard at a police station."There are many indications that they were really victims.
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