New York doctor accused of telling patients to masturbate

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A Manhattan urologist has been sued after he was accused of telling seven male patients - including two minors - to masturbate while he played porn and performing rectal exams without using gloves.

Dr. Darius Paduch, who practiced in the city since 2003, used his position of power to repeatedly sexually assault patients, prosecutors said.

One section of the indictment accuses the 55-year-old of telling patients that they were masturbating incorrectly and then grabbing their penises.

In court Tuesday, Paduch pleaded not guilty to the charges. His trial will likely take place later this year. In addition to criminal charges, Paduch is also facing a lawsuit being brought by multiple victims.

At least two of the victims involved in the suit were minors at the time of the incidents which occurred between 2015 and 2019. 




Darius A. Paduch, 55, of North Bergen, New Jersey, was charged in Manhattan federal court with sexually abusing patients, including two males who were allegedly attacked before they became adults




In an interview with CBS New York, 시알리스 구매 사이트 one victim who is suing the doctor, Tucker Coburn said that he has been seeking justice since 2020 when he first made accusations against Paduch in a police report. At the time, he was told that the statute of limitations had expired. 

'He touched me inappropriately. He pressed himself against me to demonstrate his sexual interest,' Coburn said. He then began recording his interactions with the doctor before leaving the practice. Coburn alleges that when he told the hospital about what had happened, no action was taken. 

'Ever since I filed my report in 2020, I've been looking for him to be criminally charged and put behind bars. That's my number one goal. That's where he belongs. But at the very least I hope this ends his medical career and ensures he has no chance of abusing anyone else in the future,' Coburn added. 

'As alleged, for years, Darius Paduch abused the trust of patients, including minors, who saw him for sensitive medical problem. Paduch took advantage of his victims for his own deviant satisfaction,' United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damien Williams said Monday.

Thanks to this morning's arrest, Paduch's abuse of his patients ends today,' he added. 

The physician was a specialist in male reproductive health. 

The indictment also accuses Paduch of touching his victim's penises, pressing himself against them and speaking openly about penis sizes as well as sexual activity. 

'Such discussions had no bearing on medical treatment… In the same manner, volunteered intimate information about his own sexual activity, sexual history, and sexual orientation, which also had no bearing on medical treatment or any other legitimate medical purpose,' one section of the indictment read.




The indictment said Paduch had worked in New York from 2003 through 2023 as a practicing urologist specializing in male reproductive health





U.S. Attorney Damian Williams in a statement said Paduch abused the trust of patients who saw him for sensitive medical problems

Prior to appointments, Paduch would send his victims inappropriate sexual jokes in text messages, 시알리스 구매 사이트 authorities said.  

Paduch is facing two counts of 'inducement of a person to travel to engage in unlawful sexual activity and inducement of a minor to engage in unlawful sexual activity. 

'The indictment unsealed today against Paduch, 시알리스 구매 사이트 a New York-area doctor, details alleged systemic abuse of a number of patients, to include minors, over the course of several years. Sexual abuse of anyone at any age for any reason is a horrific crime that carries strict penalties,' FBI Assistant Director Michael Driscoll said in a statement. 

He could face 60 years in prison if convicted on all charges.  

In addition to criminal charges, Paduch is also facing a lawsuit from a further 20 victims who have made similar accusations. 

Among those being represented in the lawsuit is a person who says that they were abused at 16 when they worked as Paduch's intern. 

A lawyer for 시알리스복용방법 the victims, Mallory Allen, described the doctor as a 'master manipulator who groomed these people so he could abuse them' and someone who "took advantage of his position of supreme trust,' according to the New York Times. 




Victim Tucker Coburn, shown here, said that he has been seeking justice since 2020 when he first made accusations against Paduch in a police report

The victims are also suing the two hospitals where the disgraced doctor work, New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center and Northwell Health.

The plaintiffs allege that the hospitals knew of Paduch's behavior and allowed it to continue. 

As recently as February, Paduch's profile was featured on Northwell Health's website, reports the New York Post.  

The lawsuit being brought against Paduch is being filed under New York's Adult Survivors Act which allows victims of sexual assault to go after their abusers without any statute of limitation concerns. 

Paduch was well-regarded in the world of male reproductive health, in 2016 he was quoted in a New York Times feature on generic Viagra. The article refers to the doctor as being a paid researcher for Eli Lilly, the manufacturer of another erectile disfunction drug, Cialis. 

In 2011, he authored a study that found that 65 percent of men with erectile disfunction where unable to have orgasms and 58 percent had trouble ejaculating. 

While two years earlier, his opinion was sought by ABC News in regards to the reality of a Grey's Anatomy episode.  

'For me, it's certainly great to see the charges come forward and be publicized, and that he was arrested, which is something that I've been hoping for since he abused me when I was 18,' Tucker Coburn said in a separate interview with Gothamist. 

'Reading a lot of the charges, everything that's in the indictment, I definitely was taken back to some of the things that he did with me as well,' he added.

'I would certainly like to see for this case, that Dr. Paduch be behind bars. I think that that's certainly appropriate in terms of the conduct that he had, and the sexual abuse that he perpetrated against other victims, as well as myself,' Coburn concluded.  

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