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Hadden, a gynaecologist who molested sufferers throughout a decades-long profession, was convicted of federal intercourse trafficking fees. (Picture: AP Picture)
Hadden was confronted by his victims, together with Evelyn Yang, whose husband Andrew Yang ran for president in 2020
A former New York gynecologist accused of assaulting dozens of girls, together with the spouse of a onetime US presidential candidate, was discovered responsible Tuesday of sexual abuse.
Robert Hadden, 64, was convicted of attractive sufferers to journey throughout state strains for examinations in Manhattan the place he would sexually assault them.
“Robert Hadden was a predator in a white coat,” Damian Williams, US lawyer for the Southern District of New York, stated in an announcement after the decision.
“For years, he cruelly lured girls who sought skilled medical care to his places of work with a purpose to gratify himself,” the prosecutor added.
Hadden, who has not labored as a health care provider since 2012, was convicted on 4 counts following a trial within the Manhattan federal court docket.
Every cost carries a most sentence of 20 years in jail.
Hadden, of Tenafly, New Jersey, has been accused of abusing scores of girls between the early 1990s and 2012.
Amongst them was Evelyn Yang, spouse of tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang who ran for president in 2020 as a Democratic outsider.
In January that yr, Evelyn Yang advised CNN she was assaulted by Hadden in 2012 whereas seven months pregnant along with her first baby, and had at first not even advised her husband.
Hadden had pleaded responsible in 2016 to 2 state fees of forcible touching and third-degree sexual abuse beneath a plea deal that noticed him keep away from jail.
Below the settlement, he misplaced his medical license and was registered because the lowest-level intercourse offender.
Final yr, the Columbia College Irving Medical Heart (CUIMC) introduced it had reached a $165-million settlement with 147 of Hadden’s sufferers.
That settlement got here after Columbia introduced a $71.5-million deal reached in 2021 between its hospitals and 79 of Hadden’s sufferers who had been represented by a distinct lawyer.
Columbia has stated that over the previous decade, CUIMC’s obstetrics and gynecology division has revised current insurance policies and expanded sources to enhance affected person security.
Hadden is because of be sentenced on April 25.
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