NEW YORK.- A prominent doctor faces a four count federal indictment after he was accused of sexually assaulting multiple patients, including minorsfor more than five years from 2015.
New York authorities arrested the Dr. Darius Paducha 55-year-old exurologist at Weill Cornell Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, Tuesday morning.
Paduch is charged with two counts of inducing a person to travel for engage in illegal sexual activities and two counts of inducing a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity “for his years [sic] of sexual abuse of two victims who were his patients and who were minors during part of the period of abuse,” the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced Tuesday.
As alleged, for years Darius Paduch abused the trust of patients, including minors, whom he treated for sensitive medical problems. Paduch took advantage of his victims for his own devious satisfaction. Thanks to this morning’s arrest, Paduch’s abuse of his patients ends today,” US Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement.
Paduch allegedly sexually assaulted multiple male victims, including the two minors named in the allegations, while performing urological examinations between 2015 and 2019. At that time, Paduch worked as a doctor at the prestigious Weill Cornell Medicine.
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two dozen victims
PCVA Law in Washington has brought lawsuits on behalf of two dozen victimsboth children and adults, accusing Paduch of sexual assault, the attorney said Mallory Allen a Fox News Digital.
Our clients are very relieved that he has been arrested. Many of them feel vindicated. They thought they were the only ones who had been abused by him,” he said. “We are talking about someone who took advantage of people seeking medical attention in [las] most vulnerable positions these people have probably ever been in, in their lives, seeking attention for very personal and intimate issues.”
Weill Cornell Medicine he told Fox News Digital in a statement that the medical center “values the care and safety” of its patients “above all else” and is “taking these disturbing allegations very seriously.”
“Cornell’s Office of Legal Counsel has retained outside counsel to conduct a thorough investigation into the behavior of former WCM faculty member Dr. Paduch and the circumstances surrounding the allegations,” Weill Cornell said.
In 2019, Paduch, who treated conditions ranging from erectile and sexual dysfunction to testosterone imbalance, continued with his alleged crimes of sexual abuse while working at the Jewish Medical Center of Long Island, according to the allegations in Tuesday’s indictment.
Abuse under medical deception
The doctor allegedly used his professional status to falsely convincing patients that their abuse was medically necessary or appropriate. She also allegedly texted her patients to schedule follow-up appointments and often made sexual jokes or comments, the US Attorney’s Office said.
The indictment filed today against Paduch, a New York-area physician, details the alleged systemic abuse of multiple patients, including minors, over the course of several years,” FBI Deputy Director Michael J. Driscoll said in a statement. “Sexual abuse of anyone at any age for any reason is a horrific crime that carries strict penalties.”
The first lawsuit filed by PCVA Law in December 2022 alleges that Paduch sexually assaulted a minor victim, his 16 year old intern as reported The New York Post for the first time, between 2015 and 2017 at New York-Presbyterian.
“Defendant, Dr. Darius Paduch, used his position as his agent and employee to sexually abuse and exploit Plaintiff in multiple ways, including exposing Plaintiff to gay pornography; convincing Plaintiff that his ‘medical treatment’ required that Defendant, Dr. Darius Paduch, cause erections; fondle Plaintiff’s penis; masturbate Plaintiff; and require Plaintiff to personally send text messages and videos of himself masturbating,” the lawsuit states.
PCVA Law filed four more demands against Paduch after the first accusations were made public.
Authorities are asking anyone who has been “victimized by Darius Paduch in any way or who has additional information regarding his alleged illegal behavior” to call the FBI.
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