DARIEN -- A woman who allegedly kept following her former therapist home from the woman's Danbury office was arrested Tuesday for the second time in a week by Darien police.
Sophia Gomes, 21, of 5 Clearbrook Road, Danbury, was arraigned at state Superior Court in Stamford on Wednesday on charges of second-degree stalking.
Because allegations in the police reports were so "scary," Judge Robert Genuario ordered her held in lieu of $50,000 bond, which could be lowered next week if her attorney, David Bothwell, can show she will be receiving supervised treatment.
At Bothwell's request, Genuario ordered Gomes be given medical treatment and be put on suicide watch.
Gomes, a job coach for the developmentally disabled at Abilis in Greenwich, was arrested in Darien on Tuesday night after her former therapist drove to Darien police headquarters to report that Gomes had just followed her home, a police report states.
Police reached Gomes on her cell phone and persuaded her to meet them at Holmes School, near the Stamford-Darien border, where she was arrested and held overnight for her arraignment.
The therapist, whose name is being withheld because she is a victim in the case, told police that Gomes has followed her during the 40 minute trip from her Danbury office on at least six occasions since July, the report said.
On Nov. 4, Gomes allegedly followed the woman home from Danbury and, after police found her just outside the therapist's apartment building, she was charged with third-degree stalking and first-degree criminal trespassing and released after her parents posted $500 bond.
After another stalking incident on Oct. 31, Darien police told Gomes that if she followed the woman home again she would be arrested, the police report states.
The therapist told police that when she took Gomes on as a patient it was determined she also followed other therapists.
The woman told Gomes she would not treat her if she followed her.
In July, she saw Gomes following her and dropped her as a patient.
Five days later, she noticed Gomes following her again and drove straight to the Wilton police department, where Gomes was held for questioning and released after it was determined she was not a danger to herself.
But before she was released in Wilton, Gomes asked if she could say goodbye to her former therapist "for closure" and the therapist allowed the request, the police report said.
In early August, the therapist said Gomes followed her to Norwalk but turned off before the woman turned toward her home in Darien.
On Oct. 31, Gomes followed the therapist home again, police said, but this time she followed the therapist directly to Darien police headquarters, where she was warned not to follow the woman anymore.
When they arrested her at the woman's Hoyt Street apartment on Nov. 4, Gomes told police that she drove by the woman's house and saw the police cruisers parked in the driveway and figured that the police would want to talk to her, the police report said.
Gomes is to return to court on Nov. 17.
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It's really weird because there's a Hoyt Street in Darien (where the woman lived and they mention in the end of article, but the house she worked for at Abilis was on Hoyt Street in Stamford...
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