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Drauzio says he feels for the family of the victim in the Suzy case
Varella explained that in the 35 years he has been treating inmates in prisons, he has “never” hugged a prisoner because he understands “that this type of relationship between doctors and incarcerated patients is not appropriate.” However, in Suzy’s case, the doctor says that the episode was different because he was not there as a doctor and that the hug was given at the end of the interview due to the way the prisoner looked at him.
This case was different because we were doing a story for Fantástico, I wasn’t there as a doctor at that time, and this girl was in prison, I didn’t know the crime she had committed (…) We were recording, the recording ended, she looked at me in a way, with a sadness in his eyes that moved me at that moment, but the cameraman hadn’t turned off the camera, that wasn’t part of the conversation, and then what happened (the hug) happened.
— Drauzio Varella
He stated that he was not upset by the criticism on social media, but by the family of the child who was exposed. “I was upset, not because of what they said, because it was a bunch of imbeciles, idiots, people for whom I don’t have the slightest respect. I was upset for the family of the child, the victim, because they had to go through this. I was hurt for the family, I didn’t want to include these people in something like that.”
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