Kawara Welch was arrested earlier this month on charges of harassmenta crime established since 2021. She presents herself on social media as a visual artist and began to develop an obsession with the doctor, hoping to establish a romantic relationship with him.
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Kawara was accused by a doctor, who preferred to remain anonymous, of harassing him since 2019. He says that he met Kawara in 2018. According to him, he suffered from depression. After two more consultations, Kawara visited the clinic where the doctor also works. That’s when the harassment began to intensify.
That’s when, according to the doctor, Kawara began sending threatening messages. He then decided to stop treating her at the clinic, but she persisted.
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When she went to the private hospital during her shift, the doctor requested that another professional treat her. She began to avoid contact with Kawara, but she did not imagine that the situation would escalate.
Kawara also made insistent calls to the professional’s wife and son. In addition to the calls and messages, police investigations discovered montages made by Kawara on social networks to simulate that the two were having an affair.
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The doctor also claims that he began harassing him on the streets, just as he arrived for work and a medical conference. He relates that in 2022, Kawara burst into the office where he was treating a patient, and there was an altercation with his wife. A year later, another incident in the same place, with insults and even accusations of theft.
The police arrested Kawara on the spot, but she was only detained for a week. He paid bail of R$ 3.5 thousand and began to respond to the process in freedom.
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In March 2023, the court ordered his preventive detention for once again failing to comply with precautionary measures. Kawara was on the run for more than a year until she was detained last week at a university in Uberlândia, in the Triângulo Mineiro region, where she was studying nutrition.
Kawara’s lawyer maintains that there was a relationship between her and the doctor. He denies having had any relationship with her.
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Psychiatrist Daniel Barros, consulted by the media ‘Fantático’, mentions that the practice of stalking may or may not be related to psychological disorders. No report on Kawara’s mental condition is mentioned in the lawsuit. For a year, the doctor and his wife have been undergoing treatment to control panic.
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