Paul Giacopelli lost his New York doctor’s license after pleading guilty to drugging and sexually abusing his family’s nanny while she slept in their home .
he is anesthesiologist The 60-year-old pleaded guilty Wednesday before Judge Anthony Molé after being indicted by a grand jury in March in Putnam County. Defense attorney Steven Gaitman told his client “He has accepted responsibility for his crimes and is now focused on taking care of his family”he said New York Post.
According to court documents, The unidentified victim worked taking care of Giacopelli’s children at his home. She told investigators that four times at the end of 2023 she fell asleep, woke up with a cloth over her face, smelled chemicals, and passed out.
The woman He installed a hidden camera to record his attacker on December 29, 2023. After feeling clothes on his face and fainting, he woke up and saw the contents of the camera. He took the videos to the police and Giacopelli was brought before the Putnam County Sheriff for questioning.
The recorded videos showed Giacopelli assaulting the victimprosecutors said. Keith Simone, a sheriff’s office investigator, told the grand jury that the doctor admitted to filling a tissue with sevoflurane, a numbing agent, and covering the woman’s mouth and nose to make her unconscious, he said that He had a “chloroform fetish.”.
The doctor also told investigators that the victim was an easy target because he was a “deep sleeper.” and admitted that he brought medicine home from the hospital, Simone said.
The authorities They found fentanyl and other drugs in the house. The State Board of Professional Medical Conduct (OPMC) Giacopelli was barred from practicing medicine after his arrest. After a plea deal he now faces four years in state prison when he is sentenced on November 20.
In a similar case in May, Dr. Darius A. Paduch, who for years worked as a urologist in New York, found guilty by a jury in Manhattan federal court in the 11 charges he faced he abused seven male patients, including four children.
A year ago Dr. Zhi Alan Cheng was charged Queen about drugs and sexual assault on several womenincluding his own patients and others he contacted online, and recording the attacks.
And July 2023 Robert Hadden, a former gynecologist Columbia University of New York, sentenced to 20 years in prison after being found guilty on federal charges of sexual abuse of patients. In October 2022 almost 150 women who alleged sexual abuse or misconduct by ex-gynecologist Hadden reach settlement from compensation of $165 million by the hospital system that employed him, Columbia University announced.
In another similar case, In August 2022, Argentine doctor Ricardo Cruciani committed suicide in New York’s Rikers prison.who was accused sexually abused several patients in New York, Jersey and Pennsylvania.
If you are a victim or suspect that someone has been abused, especially if they are younger or older:
Ask for help
2024-08-29 05:05:53
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