North Bergen urologist found guilty of sexually abusing male patients

A urologist who worked at one of Manhattan’s top hospitals and lives in North Bergen has been convicted of sexually abusing patients.

May 9, 2024, 9:49 a.m. EDT | Updated May 9, 2024, 10:49 a.m. EDT

NORTH BERGEN, NJ – A urologist who worked at one of Manhattan’s top hospitals – and lives in North Bergen – was found guilty Wednesday of sexually abusing seven male patients, including four minors.

The doctor is Darius A. Paduch, 55, who worked at NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center.

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Dr. Paduch was arrested in April 2023 but was found guilty at a trial in Manhattan on Wednesday. A jury unanimously found him guilty of 11 federal sexual abuse charges.

The accusation and indictment against Dr. Paduch were announced here for the first time by the Federal Prosecutor’s Office. Her case began with two victims, both of whom were under 18 when the sexual abuse began. But as the case intensified, more than 200 men ultimately came forward and claimed Dr. Paduch abused them while in his care, with the abuse beginning either before or after the young men turned 18, ABC News reported.

“Paduch used his position as a urologist at prominent medical institutions in New York to give victims the impression that the sexual abuse was medically necessary and appropriate,” U.S. prosecutors said. “During appointments, Paduch claimed he had to touch victims in certain ways to facilitate medical treatment.”

Damian Williams, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said teenagers and young men were coming to Dr. for urological problems. Paduch came.

Prosecutors say Dr. Paduch sexually abused the boys and men from 2008 to April 2019 while he was employed at New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center. He also offered his teenage victims high school internships at New York-Presbyterian.

In 2019, Paduch left New York-Presbyterian and was hired at Northwell Health on Long Island, where he worked from August 2019 to the present.

New York U.S. Attorney Anthony DiPietro said this week that New York-Presbyterian Dr. Allowed Paduch to resign after patients complained about him. But the hospital never reported him to the police, so Paduch could be hired at Northwell.

“He ended up at Northwell because Weill Cornell didn’t do his job and report him to the authorities like they should have,” DiPietro said.

According to federal prosecutors, he directed the boys to continue seeing him in Northwell and the sexual abuse continued there. The abuse continued for “years,” prosecutors said.

Parents brought teenage boys to their appointments

The exact ages of the first two victims were not disclosed, but prosecutors said both boys were under 18 when the alleged abuse began. Her parents took her to appointments.

According to the indictment, Dr. Paduch, among other things, pornography while instructing the teenage boys in his examination room and watching them masturbate.

Federal prosecutors say Paduch instructed his victims to repeatedly visit him for follow-up visits, usually telling them to see him outside of regular office hours.

Federal prosecutors said he also sent the boy text messages with sexual comments and jokes from his personal cell phone after appointments.

It was former patients, hospital staff and nurses who started telling Dr. To report Paduch’s alleged abuse, lawyers for the victims said.

“If you have been victimized in any way by Darius Paduch or have additional information about his alleged illegal behavior, please call us at 1-800-CALL-FBI or contact us at Tips.fbi.gov,” the FBI said Deputy Director in Charge Michael Driscoll.

Here is the first charge against him. Warning: The indictment contains graphic sexual details.