Anaesthetist Arrested After He's Caught On Video Raping Woman During Birth While She Was Passed Out

An anesthetist who allegedly raped a pregnant woman during a C-section may have carried out attacks on two more mothers on the same day.

Giovanni Quintella Bezerra, 32, was arrested on suspicion of rape after he was allegedly secretly filmed orally raping a woman after he heavily sedated her at the Hospital da Mulher in São João de Meriti, Rio de Janeiro.

The woman's husband was told to leave the room without being able to see his newborn baby 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 told the family she thought she was having a hallucination at the time of the attack.

Mr Bezerra only completed his medical training in anesthesia two months ago.

The hospital staff was reportedly worried about the number of drugs he was giving to his patients so fitted a secret camera to see what he was up to.

They were horrified to see him sexually assaulting the woman as other doctors performed the C-section on her less than a yard away behind a surgical curtain.

He reportedly assaulted her for almost ten minutes.

But 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 the attack.

In the second operation on Sunday, 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.'