Last Updated on: 29th June 2023, 07:13 pm
Dr. Darius Paduch, A 16-Year-Old High School Intern Sexually Abused
According to a recent lawsuit, a Manhattan urologist is accused of sexually molesting a high school intern for two years while posing as his teacher.
A case filed Monday in Manhattan Supreme Court alleges that Dr. Darius Paduch, 55, selected a 16-year-old high school student to intern at New York’s Weill Cornell Presbyterian Medical Center in 2015, where Paduch worked as a urologist.
According to court documents, Paduch “repeatedly” sexually abused the teenager between September 2015 and July 2017 while she was a patient and an intern at the doctor’s office. The teenager began his internship at the age of 16.
The lawsuit alleges that “defendant Dr. Darius Paduch used the internship and his position of authority to sexually abuse the plaintiff while posing as a mentor.”
According to the lawsuit, Paduch, who currently works for Northwell Health in Great Neck, New York, allegedly played gay pornography for the teenage student and asked him to give the intern erections as part of a “medical treatment.”
The lawsuit alleges Paduch let the teenager watch him “masturbate a patient” while pretending to educate the student.
Court documents say Paduch also “demands” that the boy send him footage of himself masturbating.
According to the lawsuit, the abuse left the student with physical and psychological trauma, including shame, sadness, fear, and family conflict.
The plaintiff filed a lawsuit against the doctor and the New York Presbyterian, alleging that the medical center negligently allowed the abuse.
The former intern “was terribly affected by his experience and is still grappling with that trauma,” attorney Mallory Allen told the Washington Post.
According to Allen, “This lawsuit seeks to explain the serious harm done to our client by a trusted individual, someone who was supposed to nurture and care for him as a child.”
The lawsuit describes how the hospital “failed to fulfill its duty to protect the children in its care when it ignored warnings that Dr. Paduch posed a threat to children,” Allen said, and how the doctor “played on a suspicion.”
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