Police investigate sex involving patient with mental illness in Santa Casa de Igarapava, SP

The Civil Police opened an investigation to investigate the circumstances in which a patient had sexual relations with two men in a restricted area of ​​Santa Casa de Igarapava (SP). According to the family, the 23-year-old woman has a diagnosis of mental illness and was taken to the unit to contain a crisis.

Delegate Ana Cláudia Fernandes Carvalho, responsible for the case, did not record the interview, but reported that she was investigating whether the woman was lucid when she entered the room with the men.

Another police suspicion is that she had sex with the man in exchange for drugs, as she is a drug user.

Santa Casa management reported that the shift doorman was removed from his role. An inquiry was opened for internal investigation.

Patient enters with man into restricted area of Santa Casa de Igarapava, SP — Photo: Reproduction/Security cameras

Entry of men into the unit

The case happened last Wednesday (4). Images from Santa Casa's security cameras show when the patient crossed the reception desk and returned hand in hand with a man. The two were allowed entry into the restricted area.

Moments later, another man appeared and was led by the doorman to the room where the patient was already staying.

The woman who appears in the images was waiting for a place in the mental health ward. Her grandmother, Silvia Lúcia Cintra, says that the young woman is diagnosed with schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder.

According to her grandmother, the young woman is undergoing treatment with controlled medication. Last Wednesday, Silvia took her granddaughter to Santa Casa to reduce the effects of a crisis.

As the hospitalization vacancy took a while to come out, Silvia says she had to leave her granddaughter at Santa Casa to resolve private matters. During her absence, the young woman maintained relationships with men. It was her own granddaughter who told her about what had happened.

"She said to me like this: 'grandma, a friend of mine came here and brought drugs for me and I had sex with him in the bathroom'. I was very shaken. The [drug] pins were all in the bathroom basket. I went there, took the pins and said to the doorman: 'see if it's appropriate for you to let people come in and do this to my granddaughter. What responsibility do you have here at Santa Casa?'", the elderly woman asks.

Corridor of the Santa Casa de Igaparava, SP — Photo: Lindomar Cailton/EPTV

What Santa Casa says

The administrative intervener at Santa Casa de Igarapava, Thiago Manttuane, says he became aware of the case after the grandmother made a complaint to the Ombudsman's Office.

Manttuane states that due to the absence of a companion, the hospital was responsible for the patient.

"The patient is completely our responsibility, but sometimes there are peculiarities. In this case, she said he was her boyfriend, so the grandmother leaves and doesn't announce that she has guardianship. The boyfriend arrives, presents himself as a boyfriend and enters the hospital, violating the hospital's rules."

The doorman who took the second man to the patient's room was removed after being interviewed.

"This is a rare case of happening in the hospital. Therefore, we listened to the professional involved and removed him immediately so that this does not happen again. And we have also rethought access management with more security measures, so that this case does not happen here in the hospital again."

The young woman was admitted to the psychiatric ward of Santa Casa de Igarapava.

The administrative intervenor of Santa Casa de Igarapava, Thiago Manttuane — Photo: Lindomar Cailton/EPTV