Doctor arrested for attacking girlfriend in Fortaleza is accused by ex of inserting remote control in her mouth

Doctor José Adriano Bispo Cavalcante, 38 years old, arrested last Sunday (8) for attacking his girlfriend in Fortaleza, is already facing a case for domestic violence against an ex-girlfriend, in 2021.

According to the process, to which g1 had access, he is accused of physical assault and psychological violence. In one of the episodes, he allegedly twisted the victim's arm and leg, in addition to slapping and inserting a remote control into the woman's mouth. The case remains ongoing in court.

The victim, born in Minas Gerais, met Adriano online. The two started talking and met for the first time in 2020, when she came to Ceará. After that, she went to live with him in Sobral, in the interior of the state, where the doctor worked at the time. The relationship lasted about nine months and ended in 2021.

"He went to the bathroom and came out transformed. He started shouting at me, and I didn't understand why. There was no reason, there was no real reason. He wanted to stick my face in the fire, but I managed to dodge it. He opened my mouth, stuck the remote control in and said absurd things. He wanted to put a syringe inside my nail. It was the moment he tried to suffocate me and said he was going to kill me", reported the victim in an interview with TV Verdes Mares.

Doctor Adriano Bispo was charged with rape and bodily harm against his girlfriend, but was already charged with another case of domestic violence — Photo: Instagram/ Reproduction

Domestic violence lawsuit

The woman reported that the attacks and psychological violence began in the second month of dating. She also says that he constantly used anabolic steroids and had episodes of instability and irritability. On TV Verdes Mares, the girl from Minas Gerais said that Adriano started criticizing her body. Faced with pressure, she agreed to take anabolic steroids as he wanted.

"The first month was a thousand loves. He was showing like a 'princess'. Second month, the third, the fourth, his aggressions started. And he started using anabolic steroids. He applied it to himself and ended up applying it to me too, so he became even more aggressive. And the psychological terror he causes, I sometimes think is worse than the aggression", he said.

Over the months of living together, she described the doctor's behavior similar to that described by his most recent girlfriend, whose aggression led to the man's arrest: bouts of jealousy over previous relationships, swearing, physical aggression, attempts to keep her away from friends and family.

"His first aggression... I remember he hit me, he pulled my hair. My hair was blonde down to my waist, I cut it. I have my hair short because of him. He pulled my hair for nothing and started saying that I was a terrible person, that so-and-so was better than me, that I was a call girl. And I didn't understand that. After about half an hour passed, I was sitting outside the studio apartment where we lived and thinking 'I don't need this'. He went after of me. He knelt down, he apologized, he said he would never do that again", he said.

He was charged by the Public Ministry of Ceará (MPCE) for bodily harm in the context of domestic violence against the woman from Minas Gerais. According to the complaint, they broke off the relationship for some time, but in April 2021 she returned to Ceará and met Adriano in Fortaleza. They talked about getting back together, but ended up arguing again.

"When trying to resume dialogue, the victim was treated rudely by the accused, who then ordered her to leave the place. When the victim began to organize her belongings to leave, the accused began physical attacks, pulling her by the hair and trying to press her face against the stove grill, with the intention of causing burns. Furthermore, the accused twisted her arm and leg, slapped her and put the television remote control in her mouth", said the MP.

The woman filed a police report against Adriano Bispo in the same month and then returned to Minas Gerais. She says that, for months, she was afraid to leave the house due to threats he had made to have her killed. The process has been stopped since then, but started again in early 2026.

Preventive detention

The existing case against him was even cited by the Fortaleza District Court as one of the reasons for converting his arrest in the act on Sunday (8) into preventive detention, that is, without a deadline.

In analyzing the case, the court pointed out the aggressive and controlling behavior, the attacks, the victim's testimony and the "concrete risk of intimidation of the victim and her family, who are the natural witnesses of the process" if he were released.

Ex-girlfriends report aggressive and controlling behavior from doctor José Adriano Bispo — Photo: Reproduction

Assault against new girlfriend

Adriano Bispo was arrested last Sunday (8), suspected of raping and assaulting his girlfriend in Fortaleza. The victim said that the two had been arguing since Friday (6). Despite this, they tried to make up and, on Sunday, they even went to the gym together. In the afternoon, however, they would have argued again due to jealousy and other problems.

Meanwhile, according to the victim, Adriano was taking different medications, such as diazepam and morphine, and used to increase the doses on weekends. During these periods, according to her report, her behavior, already marked by aggressiveness, became even more unstable.

"And then the physical attacks began, which lasted from around five o'clock in the afternoon until eight o'clock at night. So, it lasted more or less four hours. Between suffocating, blacking out, waking me up by breathing mouth to mouth, because I was completely blacked out. So, he needed to wake me up," he told g1.

The victim reported that, at one point, he took her to the bathroom, where he tried to force her to have oral sex and then introduce a bottle of antiseptic into her. He also allegedly made threats against her parents.

At one point, he allegedly sent messages to a man he thought the victim was talking to. "He sent a message to this guy, 'she killed herself and it was your fault'. In other words, he was probably going to kill me, he was going to say that I committed suicide. Then he said that he was going to kill himself too, that it was going to be a case of Romeo and Juliet", he stated.

At one point, he fell in the bathroom and felt severe pain due to a recent surgery. At that moment, he would have ordered her to run away. The woman took the opportunity to flee the apartment and ask for help at the building's security guard, at which point the police were called.

Even with the arrival of the Police, he refused to surrender and it was necessary for the police team to negotiate with the man, while his lawyers waited in the hallway. He only left the apartment at around 11:25 pm, hours after the agents arrived at the building.

Adriano Bispo presents himself on social media as a specialist in functional and integrative medicine. On the website of the Regional Council of Medicine of Ceará, the doctor's profile appears without a registered specialty.

Following the repercussion of the case in the press, the profile on which the doctor had thousands of followers was taken offline.