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Published June 21, 2023 10:22pm EDT


DISGRACED NYC GYNECOLOGIST SHOULD FACE AT LEAST 25 YEARS FOR SERIAL SEXUAL
ASSAULTS: PROSECUTORS


ROBERT HADDEN, 64, ASSAULTED 'STAGGERING' NUMBER OF VICTIMS

Associated Press

A gynecologist convicted of federal sex abuse charges should face at least 25
years in prison for assaulting a "staggering number of victims" during a
quarter-century career as a serial sexual predator disguised as a doctor at
prestigious Manhattan hospitals, prosecutors say in court papers.

Their presentence submission in Manhattan federal court late Tuesday precedes a
hearing next week when Robert Hadden's victims can deliver statements to Judge
Richard M. Berman before he sentences Hadden next month.

"For decades, the defendant repeatedly leveraged his position of power to
target, exploit, deceive, and sexually violate patients seeking medical care,
many of whom were especially vulnerable," prosecutors wrote. "He committed
serial acts of abuse against patients — all while hiding behind his power as a
doctor and enjoying professional and financial success."

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NY JUDGE SENDS FORMER OB-GYN ROBERT HADDEN TO JAIL, CONVICTED OF SEXUALLY
ABUSING HUNDREDS OF WOMEN

Hadden, 64, of Englewood, New Jersey, was convicted in January of enticing
victims to cross state lines so he could sexually abuse them. At trial, nine
former patients testified.

Defense lawyers last week said in their presentence submission that Hadden
should face three years in prison after not abusing anyone since he stopped
practicing medicine a decade ago.

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Hadden has lost 35 pounds and repeatedly been threatened with violence at a
federal jail in Brooklyn, leading him to stay in his cell except to shower or
call family members, the lawyers said.

Prosecutors argue that Dr. Robert Hadden, formerly of Columbia University,
should face at least 25 years in prison for a "staggering" number of sexual
assaults he committed as a gynecologist. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

At the trial, Hadden's lawyers did not dispute that he had molested patients,
but they said he was already prosecuted for those crimes in state court, where
Hadden pleaded guilty in 2016 to allegations that he had abused several women.
That plea required him to surrender his medical license, but he served no time
behind bars.

Prosecutors said in their papers that Hadden's "calculated career as a serial
sexual predator" began soon after he started working in 1987 at
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, which later became New
York-Presbyterian Hospital.

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Trial evidence proved Hadden committed from 167 to 310 acts of sexual abuse or
assault on dozens of patients as he honed his abuse techniques so the assaults
would go undetected for over 20 years, prosecutors wrote.

They said he built rapport with victims in a private office decorated with
pictures of his children and put them at ease by asking about their personal
lives and talking about his family.

FORMER OB-GYN ACCUSED OF RAPING HUNDREDS HAS FACED THREATS, EXTORTION BY OTHER
INMATES, ACCORDING TO LAWYERS

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Eventually, he sought sexual gratification when he asked victims "detailed,
inappropriate, and medically unnecessary questions and provided unsolicited
advice and commentary about their bodies, pubic hair, masturbation, sexual
activity, sex toys, pornography, and sexual partners," prosecutors said.

They said he devised ways to get nurses and medical assistants to leave him
alone with patients in the examination room, where he pretended that he needed
to "conduct a fake second exam, during which time he sexually assaulted
patients."

Prosecutors said they learned that Hadden assaulted "a staggering number of
victims ... under the guise of medical care."

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He worked at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian
Hospital until complaints about his attacks shut down his career. The
institutions have agreed to pay more than $236 million to settle civil claims by
more than 200 former patients.


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