A Brazilian anesthetist was arrested in Rio de Janeiro after he was caught on camera orally raping a sedated woman in the middle of a C-section.

The accused, Giovanni Quintella Bezerra, 32, was also suspected of allegedly raping five other patients on numerous occasions during his tenure as a junior anesthetist.

Reports indicated on July 10, nursing staff became suspicious of his behaviour during two C-sections that day and secretly recorded Bezerra during a third, capturing what appeared to be 10 minutes of oral rape.

Bezerra is said to have positioned himself near the woman’s head with his gown arranged in such a way that the rest of the team, working just feet away, could not see her from the neck up.

Following this, the police were summoned and Bezerra was taken into custody.

During his first court appearance yesterday, a high court judge sentenced the accused to indefinite solitary confinement in the Bangu prison until investigations have been concluded.

Separately, it was revealed that Bezerra is facing a medical malpractice lawsuit from 2018 before he qualified as an anesthetist and was working at a different hospital.

Bezerra and another doctor are accused of misdiagnosing a case of swine flu as a urinary tract infection, causing the female patient to fall into a 23-day coma.

During the coma, the patient lost her big toe, sustained severe damage to her Achilles tendon, and lost a large amount of her hair.