"Arrest of Portugal’s elite in paedophile scandal
A scandal concerning the abuse of children in care homes has led to the arrest of several members of Portugal’s social and political elite.
The allegations are that state-run care homes were a target for wealthy and influential paedophiles whose activities were covered up for decades by successive Portuguese governments.
Once the allegations became public Teresa Costa Macedo, a former Secretary of State for the Family, revealed that she knew about them whilst she was a minister in the early 1980s and that very influential people were involved. In 1982, she claimed she told General Antonio Ramalho Eanes, Portuguese President from 1976-1986, about the allegations.
Costa Macedo warned that Silvino “was just one element in a huge paedophile network that involved important people in our country... It wasn’t just him. He was a procurer of children for well-known people who range from diplomats and politicians to people linked to the media.”
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2003/06/port-j18.html
"The Casa Pia child sexual abuse scandal was a case of child sexual abuses involving a number of children and employees at Casa Pia, a Portuguese state-run institution for the education and support of poor children and under-age orphans.
Portuguese Judiciary Police (Polícia Judiciária) officials estimate that more than 100 boys and girls of the 4,600 pupils enrolled in Casa Pia at the time, including some deaf and mute, may have been sexually abused throughout several decades.
The trial is one of the longest-running in Portuguese history, lasting more than five years, with testimony from more than 800 witnesses and experts
Portuguese Judiciary Police (Polícia Judiciária) first accused the caretaker of a Casa Pia state-run children's home in 1981 of raping dozens of children over a period of 30 years, even though some reports of abuse pre-date the 1974 Carnation Revolution.
Police accused the perpetrators of supplying children to men from Portugal and other countries, including to some prominent public figures in Portugal.
The scandal of alleged sexual abuse at the state-run Casa Pia orphanages resurfaced when several former orphanage children came forward with accusations of abuse. The accusations linked some politicians, diplomats, and media celebrities—all of whom were alleged to have conspired in a pedophilia ring that had operated for decades.
The scandal broke in September 2002 when the mother of one alleged victim, known as Joel, complained of abuse by staff at a Casa Pia house.
Former Casa Pia children came forward to publicly accuse several personnel of sexual abuse. The weekly magazine Visão reported that a Portuguese diplomat, Jorge Ritto, was removed from his post as consul in Stuttgart (1969–1971) after German authorities complained to Lisbon about his involvement with an under-age boy in a public park.
Accused were diplomat Jorge Ritto, Carlos Cruz (a famous Portuguese television presenter), Carlos Silvino (a.k.a. Bibi, an employee of Casa Pia and a former pupil in the institution), Ferreira Diniz (a physician from Lisbon), Hugo Marçal (a lawyer who represented Carlos Silvino in the early stages of the process) and among other individuals, a marine archaeologist.
Secretary of State for Labor and Training from 1999 to 2001, Paulo Pedroso, who was responsible for the Casa Pia homes, which care for some 4,600 children at 10 centers around Portugal, was suspected of 15 cases of sexual violence against minors, which allegedly took place between 1999 and 2000. His case was also subsequently dropped.
The Socialist Party leader at the time, Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, who was a close personal friend of Paulo Pedroso, offered to undergo police questioning after "he had learned of plans to implicate him in the [Casa Pia] scandal". The weekly paper Expresso published a report on 25 May 2003, from four children who said they saw Ferro Rodrigues at locations where sexual abuse was taking place. ...
Rodrigues has said, "I want it to be clear: our fight will be serene but determined and it is and will only be directed at those who are responsible for this defamation, whatever their objective is."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_Pia_child_sexual_abuse_scandal#cite_note-Casa_Pia_Scandal-1
Ferro Rodrigues had lost the case against the victims...
http://www.salteadoresdaarca.com/2009/10/casa-pia-ferro-rodrigues-perde-processo-contra-vitima
"....Carlos Silvino, "Bibi", quis salientar que a Casa Pia lhe "destruiu a vida", "Fui um escravo, eu e muitos. Fomos carne fresca no tempo do Marcelo Caetano, para médicos, juízes e doutores"
Translation
"Carlos Silvino, "Bibi", wanted to point out that the Casa Pia "destroyed his life", "I was a slave, I and many. We were fresh meat at the time of Marcelo Caetano, for doctors, judges and doctors"
http://www.jn.pt/Dossies/dossie.aspx?content_id=1552136&dossier=Julgamento%20Casa%20Pia
"Eugenio Chipkevitch (?, Ukraine, April 26, 1954) is a former doctor and former psychotherapist Ukrainian Jewish descent, naturalized Brazilian, accused of sexually abusing their adolescent patients in a the Institute paulista of Adolescence in the city of São Paulo, having also recorded video footage, which were found in a garbage by a telephone engineer, that denounced the images. He was arrested and sentenced to prison terms of 114 years in prison for indecent assault and corruption of minors....
...Chipkevitch was a respected professional in the medical and academic...
He graduated in 1978 at the Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo (USP), was Head of the Department of Teens Children's Hospital Darcy Vargas, in São Paulo, and a member of associations such as the Society for Research on Adolescence (Society for Research in adolescence) of the United States.
Introduced in Brazil the medical specialty known as hebiatria (treatment of adolescents and their problems).
In 2002, a technician for a phone company it was with another helper in the repair of telephone line, was surprised to see a large garbage bag next to the post in a bucket of rubble. To see what was inside, he found several videotapes in format camcorder. Decided he would take home to know which ones were good quality and discard those that had not. He said that there were 35 tapes in a trash bag. When watching the tapes, was surprised by a man abusing young. In over 15 hours of recordings, of which only a small part aired, showed scenes of sexual abuse against about 40 victims - all boys, aged 8 and 17. The doctor would sedate patients, under the pretext of applying them vaccine after the undressed and settled on the stretcher. While unconscious, was caressing them, took them in her lap, manipulating his genitals."
Translation
"Eugênio Chipkevitch (?, Ucrânia, 26 de abril de 1954) é um ex-médico e ex-psicoterapeuta ucraniano de ascendência judaica, naturalizado brasileiro, acusado de abusar sexualmente de seus pacientes adolescentes na clínica Instituto Paulista da Adolescência na cidade de São Paulo, tendo inclusive gravado cenas em vídeo, que foram achadas num lixo por técnico de telefonia e denunciou as imagens. Foi preso e condenado a penas de 114 anos de prisão por atentado violento ao pudor e corrupção de menores.
.Chipkevitch era um profissional respeitado na área médica e acadêmica.
...Formou-se em 1978 na Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (USP), foi chefe do Serviço de Adolescentes do Hospital Infantil Darcy Vargas, na capital paulista, e membro de associações como a Society for Research on Adolescence (Sociedade para Pesquisa em Adolescência) dos Estados Unidos.
...Introduziu no Brasil a especialidade médica conhecida como hebiatria (o tratamento dos adolescentes e de seus problemas)....
...Em 2002, um técnico de uma empresa telefônica que estava com outro ajudante no conserto da linha telefônica instalada no poste, estranhou ao ver um saco de lixo grande e de formato quadrado, ao lado do poste numa caçamba de entulho. Ao ver o que tinha dentro, encontrou várias fitas de vídeo no formato de filmadora portátil.
Decidiu que iria levar para casa para saber quais delas estavam em boa qualidade e descartar aquelas que não tivessem. Contou que havia 35 fitas num saco de lixo. Ao assistir as fitas, ficou surpreso com um homem abusando de jovens. Ele repassou as duas fitas a Rede Globo e ao SBT e o restante para Polícia Civil nos dias seguintes.
Nas mais de 15 horas de gravações, das quais apenas uma pequena parte foi ao ar, apareceram cenas de abusos sexuais cometidos contra cerca de 40 vítimas – todos meninos, com idade entre 8 e 17 anos. O médico sedava os pacientes, sob o pretexto de aplicar-lhes vacina, depois os despia e os acomodava na maca. Enquanto estavam inconscientes, fazia-lhes carícias, pegava-os no colo, manipulava seus órgãos genitais."
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%AAnio_Chipkevitch
Consultant paediatrician Andrew Holton, who had no specialist training in epilepsy, ignored tests showing the youngsters did not suffer the condition and prescribed medication which turned them into 'zombies'.
Concerns about his attitude to patients were raised in 1995, and about his abilities three years later, but he wasn't suspended by Leicester Royal Infirmary until May 2001.
The possibility of subjecting Dr Holton's work to independent scrutiny was raised in 1999, but the hospital decided merely to monitor him themselves.
Yesterday that decision was branded a 'serious error of judgment' by an independent inquiry panel set up by the Department of Health.
Angry parents of children misdiagnosed by Dr Holton accused the University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) NHS Trust of treating consultants 'like gods'.
Sue Parr of Enderby, Leicester, whose son Peter, 16, was wrongly diagnosed, said: 'I had tears in my eyes as the chief executive of the trust said sorry to us, because it is nothing but a glib word. 'We are angry the previous concerns have been revealed, and appalled they were not acted upon. This shows that consultants are treated like gods and it is believed that they cannot make mistakes.'
Some of the cases Dr Holton diagnosed began with children complaining of headaches or parents concerned about bad behaviour, clumsiness and falling behind at school.
When the children were given the drugs some became violent, others listless and some suffered temporary disabilities which left them in wheelchairs.
Out of 1,948 children, Dr Holton misdiagnosed epilepsy in 618 and wrongly put 500 on high dosages of drugs.
So far 400 families have launched legal action against the UHL NHS Trust, which could cost the Health Service £10million.
Dr Holton, 50, began work at Leicester Royal Infirmary in 1990. Complaints from patients and other paediatricians in the mid to late 1990s continued until his suspension.
One complainant, the inquiry learned, said Dr Holton had an 'abrupt approach, a tendency to rudeness and an apparently dismissive attitude towards parents and carers'.
It also discovered that Dr Alun Elias- Jones, then the hospital's clinical director, received letters from community paediatricians alarmed at Dr Holton's rate of epilepsy diagnosis and the 'unacceptable levels of clinical risk in children' late in 1998.
Dr Holton's own neurology nurse, Ann Brown, had expressed her fears about his methods and the high doses of drugs prescribed in a letter to the clinical director in 2000.
Dr Peter Reading, chief executive of the UHL NHS Trust, accepted that mistakes were made and expressed regret. The Trust is reviewing its complaints procedure.
A spokesman for Epilepsy Action said there were too few experts in childhood epilepsy, adding: 'The situation in Leicester could quite easily have happened elsewhere.'
Solicitors for the families are bringing similar, unrelated claims against Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, and hospitals in Doncaster, Manchester and Warrington.
Dr Holton has left the hospital but is thought to be retraining in another medical field."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-200349/Dr-Zombie-blundered-years.html#ixzz2fMD8qRZt
