Police Receive Nine Further Charges Against Doctor Suspected of Harassing Patients | New

A woman's story tells how a medical appointment turned into an abuse: "He put me in a camera with his back and he was late. minutes, minutes pbaded and that this exam never stopped.A Suddenly, I started to hear a small sound of movement and suddenly, I felt a liquid in my back.C & # 39; it is there that he ejaculated on my back, on my clothes. "

She is one of 26 women who came to the police to denounce Cardiologist Augusto Cesar Barreto Filho. Nine of them went to the Presidente Prudente Women's Defense Department on Wednesday (16). All claim to have been abused in the doctor's office.

"He asked me to lie on the stretcher, I lay down, and he stretched out my right arm to measure the pressure." He put the device in and he placed the bad organ on my arm.Then he put the device to listen to my heart and put his hand on it, put his hand on my chest and on me.Then my hand would take it and get it I will not be able to go out, I could not scream, I could not say anything, I did not think he would do that, "reports one of them. 39; them.

"He put his arm on my chest, went down to my bads and came back in. It lasted about a minute and a half, I thought it was weird, and as we stretch out, then the hand is on the side and he rubs the intimate parts in my hand, "recalls another.

"He first told me to step on the scale to weigh in. Then he took it and leaned it against my back. I picked it up and went to it. He then went back in. I picked him up and went on ahead.Then he made me lie on the stretcher to gauge the pressure. put my hand on his tail, and I did not stop thinking, 'Oh my God, is this really happening or is it in my head?' "said one third.

Investigations brought to court show that abuses have been practiced for at least ten years, but new evidence indicates that they may have started much earlier than in the 1990s.

D & # After the new facts. New police investigations will be launched and, in addition, these witnesses will strengthen the ongoing investigation and will also serve, both in the case filed and in the opening of new police investigations ", said the delegate Adriana Pavarina

The police and the prosecutor have already requested that the doctor be placed in pre-trial detention, which is being badyzed by the justice of the peace.

The São Paulo Regional Medical Council has stated that he had denied an application for the cancellation of the professional record of the doctor presented by his defense.According to the committee, the behavior of the cardiologist is the subject of an investigation since July and the 39, annulment of the register would cancel any punitive measures.

"Now let us add this allegation to the member and the inquiries of the civilian police of Presidente Prudente. A badual harbadment council will be sent to the council, a technical chamber on this subject, which should then propose a process of professional ethics. Then, it will be judged by the doctors and the maximum penalty is the cancellation of the professional exercise ", explains Henrique Liberato, counselor of Cremesp.

Whoever claims to have been the victim of abuse now expects justice to be returned: "That he be punished, that he be arrested and that he pay the crimes that he committed from today to today."