A gynecologist convicted of federal intercourse abuse expenses ought to face a minimum of 25 years in jail for assaulting a “staggering variety of victims” throughout a quarter-century profession as a serial sexual predator disguised as a physician at prestigious Manhattan hospitals, prosecutors say in courtroom papers.
Their presentence submission in Manhattan federal courtroom late Tuesday precedes a listening to subsequent week when Robert Hadden’s victims can ship statements to Decide Richard M. Berman earlier than he sentences Hadden subsequent month.
“For many years, the defendant repeatedly leveraged his place of energy to focus on, exploit, deceive, and sexually violate sufferers in search of medical care, lots of whom have been particularly susceptible,” prosecutors wrote. “He dedicated serial acts of abuse in opposition to sufferers — all whereas hiding behind his energy as a physician and having fun with skilled and monetary success.”
NY JUDGE SENDS FORMER OB-GYN ROBERT HADDEN TO JAIL, CONVICTED OF SEXUALLY ABUSING HUNDREDS OF WOMEN
Hadden, 64, of Englewood, New Jersey, was convicted in January of attractive victims to cross state traces so he may sexually abuse them. At trial, 9 former sufferers testified.
Protection attorneys final week stated of their presentence submission that Hadden ought to face three years in jail after not abusing anybody since he stopped working towards drugs a decade in the past.
Hadden has misplaced 35 kilos and repeatedly been threatened with violence at a federal jail in Brooklyn, main him to remain in his cell besides to bathe or name members of the family, the attorneys stated.
Prosecutors argue that Dr. Robert Hadden, previously of Columbia College, ought to face a minimum of 25 years in jail for a “staggering” variety of sexual assaults he dedicated as a gynecologist. (AP Photograph/Yuki Iwamura, File)
On the trial, Hadden’s attorneys didn’t dispute that he had molested sufferers, however they stated he was already prosecuted for these crimes in state courtroom, the place Hadden pleaded responsible in 2016 to allegations that he had abused a number of ladies. That plea required him to give up his medical license, however he served no time behind bars.
Prosecutors stated of their papers that Hadden’s “calculated profession as a serial sexual predator” started quickly after he began working in 1987 at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Heart in New York, which later turned New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
Trial proof proved Hadden dedicated from 167 to 310 acts of sexual abuse or assault on dozens of sufferers as he honed his abuse methods so the assaults would go undetected for over 20 years, prosecutors wrote.
They stated he constructed rapport with victims in a personal workplace embellished with photos of his youngsters and put them relaxed by asking about their private lives and speaking about his household.
Finally, he sought sexual gratification when he requested victims “detailed, inappropriate, and medically pointless questions and offered unsolicited recommendation and commentary about their our bodies, pubic hair, masturbation, sexual exercise, intercourse toys, pornography, and sexual companions,” prosecutors stated.
They stated he devised methods to get nurses and medical assistants to depart him alone with sufferers within the examination room, the place he pretended that he wanted to “conduct a faux second examination, throughout which era he sexually assaulted sufferers.”
Prosecutors stated they realized that Hadden assaulted “a staggering variety of victims … beneath the guise of medical care.”
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He labored at Columbia College Irving Medical Heart and New York-Presbyterian Hospital till complaints about his assaults shut down his profession. The establishments have agreed to pay greater than $236 million to settle civil claims by greater than 200 former sufferers.
