A Manhattan urologist allegedly sexually abused a male highschool intern for 2 years — all underneath the pretense of teaching him, a brand new grievance costs.
Dr. Darius Paduch, 55, in 2015 chosen a 16-year-old highschool scholar to be his intern at NewYork Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Middle, the place Paduch practiced urology, in keeping with a Manhattan Supreme Court docket lawsuit filed Monday.
The teenager — who was each Paduch’s affected person and intern — was sexually abused “a number of occasions” by the physician from September 2015 via July 2017, the court docket papers declare. The teenager was 16 when he started the internship.
“Defendant Dr. Darius Paduch used the internship, and his place of authority, to sexually abuse Plaintiff underneath the guise of tutelage,” the swimsuit costs.
Paduch, who presently works for Northwell Well being in Nice Neck, NY, allegedly performed homosexual porn for the teenager pupil — and advised him that as a part of “medical remedy,” he needed to give the intern erections, the submitting alleges.
And “underneath the guise” of educating the coed, Paduch had the teenager watch him “masturbate a affected person,” the lawsuit claims.
Paduch additionally “demand[ed]” the teenager textual content him movies of himself masturbating, the court docket paperwork declare.
The abuse induced the coed to undergo bodily and emotional accidents together with humiliation, melancholy, nervousness and household turmoil, the lawsuit alleges.
The accuser has filed swimsuit towards each the physician and NY Presbyterian, claiming the hospital was negligent in permitting the abuse to happen.
The alleged sufferer, who now lives in Barnegat Township, NJ, is suing for unspecified damages.
Lawyer Mallory Allen advised The Put up the previous intern “has been deeply traumatized by his expertise and continues to be dealing with that trauma.”
“This lawsuit seeks accountability for the intense wrongs finished to our consumer by the hands of a trusted determine — somebody who was alleged to be treating and caring for him — when he was a baby,” Allen mentioned.
The lawsuit describes how, in keeping with Allen, the physician took “benefit of his place” and how the hospital “failed in its responsibility to guard the youngsters in its care when it ignored the warning indicators that Dr. Paduch was a hazard to kids.”
“We count on that our consumer is just not the one youngster significantly harmed by the acts of the defendants,” Allen alleged.
Neither NY Presbyterian nor the physician instantly returned requests for remark.
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