An orthopedist at the Padre Américo hospital in Penafiel, detained by the Judicial Police (PJ), is charged with two crimes of rape and two crimes of sexual coercion, the Attorney General of the District of Porto said.
A note posted on the official Porto PGD page explains that after his arrest, the doctor on Wednesday attended the first judicial examination at the Porto Este Regional Judicial Court (Juízo de Instrução Criminal de Penafiel), which “considered the commission of two crimes of rape and two crimes of sexual coercion subject to severe accusation”.
It is also stated that the court ruled, as a measure of coercion, to remove the doctor from the performance of his functions related to medicine in any institution / public or private service, and also to prohibit him from contacting victims and witnesses “in any way or through interference.” Human”.
The court applied these measures because it took into account “the danger of continuing criminal activity, disruption of the course of the investigation and, in particular, the danger to the obtaining and preservation or credibility of evidence and the serious disturbance of public order and peace.”
The Northern Directorate of the SP said on Thursday that it had detained a 60-year-old doctor suspected of committing rape and sexual assault offenses that have occurred since 2022 in the context of a medical consultation at a public health facility in the North. region.
“The defendant, a doctor by profession, as part of his outpatient consulting functions in a public hospital, under the pretext of a better medical diagnosis, subjected the victims to the practice of abusive sexual acts,” he added.
According to the JV, “the victims, although embarrassed, complied with the aforementioned practice, given the situation of addiction in which they found themselves, as well as the disregard for alleged medical procedures.”
A court source confirmed to Luce that the doctor in question was an orthopedist at the Padre Americano Hospital.
Asked by Lusa on Thursday, the board of directors of the Centro Hospitalar do Tâmega e Sousa, of which the Hospital Padre Américo (in the Porto area) is a part, replied that it “cooperated from the very beginning with the authorities against which the case was referred, so no more statements to be made don’t have to.”
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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