The woman who reported having been assaulted and sexually assaulted by doctor José Adriano Bispo Cavalcante, aged 38, in Fortaleza, told TV Verdes Mares that, over the course of three months of dating, she experienced several episodes of psychological and physical violence, most of them motivated by jealousy. In one of them, Adriano allegedly poured alcohol on both of them and threatened to set them on fire if she didn't call people she had been involved with in the past.
Adriano was arrested in the act last Sunday (8) after attacking and torturing the victim for hours in the condominium where he lived, in the Aldeota neighborhood, in Fortaleza. The sequence of violence included suffocation that made her lose consciousness, threats with a knife and sexual violence. He remains in pre-trial detention.
By means of a note, Adriano Bispo's defense "categorically defends the innocence" of the doctor and that "the reported facts do not correspond to reality and result from a hasty and incomplete interpretation of events". Check out the full note at the end of the article.
In an episode of jealousy, which would have occurred before the attacks on Sunday, early in the middle of the week, Adriano would have demanded that the victim call two people with whom she had already been involved, under threat of setting fire to the apartment where they were.
"There was a time when he grabbed the bottle of alcohol on me, threw it all over the room, threw it in the apartment, and with a blowtorch, saying he would set it on fire if I didn't call this person, two specific people he wanted me to call in the early hours of the morning", he said.
She reports that this type of threat was part of the couple's psychological violence dynamics. At various times, according to her report, he treated her with affection and even helped with her work. At other times, he had outbursts of jealousy. "Of course he wasn't a monster all the time. He was very worried. He made me feel very fragile," he said.
A doctor was arrested on suspicion of raping and assaulting his girlfriend in a residential condominium in Fortaleza. — Photo: Reproduction
The two constantly broke up - and then one asked the other to come back, which she attributes to a situation of emotional dependence. “He kept punching himself, punching the wall, saying he did it so it wouldn’t be on me,” he says.
According to information from g1 and TV Verdes Mares, Adriano Bispo is already responding to another lawsuit for bodily injury in the context of domestic violence, which is being processed in the District of Sobral.
Understand the case
Doctor José Adriano Bispo Cavalcante, 38, was arrested last Sunday (8), suspected of raping and assaulting his girlfriend in Fortaleza. She 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.
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.
Negotiation with BOPE
According to the Military Police, the agents were called by the doctor's girlfriend, who told the military that she had been attacked by her partner, who was armed with a knife and remained locked in the apartment.
Images show police team negotiating with doctor Adriano Bispo for him to surrender, in Fortaleza (CE) — Photo: Reproduction
When police arrived at the address, the man refused to leave the property. As a result, a team from the Special Police Operations Battalion (BOPE) was called in to negotiate the surrender.
"After negotiations conducted by specialized police officers, the suspect surrendered at around 11:25 pm, without the need for a break-in or tactical entry into the property," said the Military Police.
After surrender, the doctor and the victim were taken to the Women's Defense Police Station (DDM) in Fortaleza. According to the court case, the victim "presented visible and recent bodily injuries to her arms, face, eye region, neck and abdomen", and she would undergo a forensic examination to confirm the extent of the attacks.
At the police station, Adriano Bispo was charged with the crimes of bodily harm and rape, in the context of domestic and family violence against women, involving physical and sexual violence. He underwent a custody hearing on Monday (9) and had his arrest converted into preventative arrest.
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.
The court also pointed out that he is already responding to another lawsuit for bodily injury in the context of domestic violence, a case that is being processed in the District of Sobral, which indicates repeat offending behavior.
What Adriano's defense says
Position of Adriano Bispo's defense, represented by lawyer Willian Rebouças, in full:
José Adriano Bispo Cavalcante's technical defense categorically affirms the innocence of his constituent regarding all the charges that have been attributed to him.
The reported facts do not correspond to reality and result from a hasty and incomplete interpretation of events, made before any regular investigation.
Mr. Adriano Bispo has always guided his personal and professional life by righteousness, ethics and strict compliance with the law.
Our client remains at the complete disposal of the competent authorities and will collaborate in clarifying the facts through legal means and at the appropriate procedural time, acting with total transparency.
The defense trusts that the regular investigation of the facts, observing the contradictory and broad defense, will clarify the truth and rule out the imputations.
Finally, the defense remembers that the Federal Constitution guarantees everyone the presumption of innocence (art. 5, LVII). Therefore, the press is asked to be cautious with unofficial information, in order to avoid premature judgments and undue exposure of the parties involved.
