A perverted Manhattan neurologist was convicted Friday for raping and sexually assaulting six sufferers.
Ricardo Cruciani, 68, was discovered responsible on all 12 counts after a monthlong trial that includes testimony about how he manipulated, abused and even bought the ladies hooked on ache meds so that they had been depending on him.
The ladies – who testified at trial – had been his sufferers at Beth Israel Medical Middle and later at services in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
The sick doc was convicted on 12 counts of third-degree rape, sexual abuse, tried rape, predatory sexual assault and felony sexual act. He faces as much as 25 years to life behind bars at his Sept. 14 sentencing.
The sufferers got here to Cruciani with uncommon ailments and persistent ache issues, prosecutors argued at trial. He would develop shut private relationships with the ladies and groom them for sexual relationships, in response to the Manhattan District Lawyer’s workplace.
Cruciani would power the ladies to carry out sexual acts in alternate for ache remedy and would give them excessive doses of extremely addictive medicines to ensure they'd hold coming again to him, prosecutors stated.
Certainly one of Cruciani’s victims, Hillary Tullin, claimed in an announcement that the protection staff tried to painting her and different victims as liars.
“What occurred to us is actual, it’s traumatic and it will probably not be denied,” Tullin stated.
One other sufferer – who wasn’t named – stated: “Cruciani preyed on weak sufferers and at present his victims got again their energy.”
“Ricardo Cruciani abused his energy as a medical skilled and knowingly took benefit of his sufferers’ ache,” Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg stated in an announcement. “Dr. Cruciani left in his wake six survivors who proceed to undergo from debilitating ailments, and now, years of trauma.”
Cruciani’s lawyer didn’t instantly return a request for remark.
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