‘Predator’ urologist Darius Paduch hit with 143 more lawsuits after being found guilty of sexually abusing patients at NYC hospitals

A convicted Manhattan urologist is facing hundreds of civil lawsuits for allegedly sexually abusing his patients, and court documents reveal the horrors his victims allegedly endured.

Dr. Darius Paduch was found guilty in May on six counts of persuading, inducing, enticing or coercing an individual to travel to engage in unlawful sexual activity and five counts of using an interstate facility to persuade, induce, entice or coerce a minor to engage in unlawful sexual activity. according to the New York Times.

But the former doctor now faces a total of 310 individual lawsuits against him and the hospital systems where he worked, after another 143 male patients came forward, reports the New York Post.

The large number of complainants makes this the largest case against a single abuser involving male victims, as recently filed court documents show Paduch allegedly abused “thousands of victims and survivors.”

“Darius Paduch exploited more male patients than any other predator in history,” prosecutor Anthony T. DiPietro told the Post.

The victims ranged in age from retirees to minors whom he saw at New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, Columbia University and Northwell Health System in the New York City area.

Paduch injected a serum into their penises to force long-term erections, performed penis enlargements that led to deformities, performed cystoscopies — in which a tube is inserted through the penis into the urethra — without anesthesia and forced some patients to get on their hands and knees during examinations, according to documents filed Tuesday in Manhattan Supreme Court.

During some sessions, Paduch walked around with a pen and pointed to parts of patients’ naked bodies, “as if he were pretending to be a professor,” the documents said, sources said.

At times he also measured his patients’ erect penises and used ‘phallic sex toys’.

The civil lawsuits allege that the abuse sometimes even occurred in the presence of nurses, aides and other doctors.

One victim also said Paduch squeezed his penis so hard that it bothered him for weeks. Another claimed the doctor prescribed him so many unnecessary medications that he developed liver failure.

In another case, as a 56-year-old patient lay on an examining table, Paduch allegedly unzipped his pants and told the man “he wanted the man to see what an erect penis looks like.”

Court documents also show that one of the alleged victims saw Paduch for more than a decade, starting at age 7. Another said he was victimized at age 13.

“It’s worse than I could ever have imagined,” the mother of one of the latest plaintiffs, a patient at Weill-Cornell Medical Center, said in a statement to the Post, provided by DiPietro.

“When I heard what happened during those visits, I almost died.”

Paduch, who started his practice in the city in 2003, continued to do so until 2023. However, court documents show his employers had been aware of his abuse since 2017.

“Patients trust these so-called ‘top hospitals’ to provide safe and quality medical care for very personal conditions,” DiPietro said.

“Patients don’t go to a doctor’s office thinking they’re going to be taken advantage of by some idiot in a white lab coat.”

The attorney originally filed a class action lawsuit against Paduch and his employers in August of last year, several months after the doctor was sued for telling seven male patients — including two minors — to masturbate while he watched porn and performed rectal exams without wearing gloves.

In part of the indictment, the 55-year-old is accused of telling his patients they were masturbating incorrectly and then grabbing their penis.

The indictment also accuses Paduch of touching his victim’s penises, pressing himself against them and openly discussing penis size and sexual acts.

He “used his position of trust as a doctor for his own perverse gratification,” U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said after Paduch was found guilty in May.

‘For years, patients, many of whom were children, left his practice as victims.’

DiPietro also said at the time that he is “grateful that Darius Paduch will never be able to do this to a single patient in New York State or anywhere else again.”

Paduch’s medical license was revoked by the Department of Health last year and is expected to be permanently revoked following his conviction.

Still, DiPietro is continuing his civil lawsuits against the doctor and the hospitals he worked for after a judge in July rejected an attempt by Paduch’s attorneys to dismiss and dismiss the class-action lawsuit.

However, the 143 new victims are not part of the civil lawsuit and have filed their own lawsuits.

A spokesperson for Weill-Cornell Medicine told the Post that the hospital is “heartbroken for these survivors” and said it has “made improvements to our policies and training requirements, and launched new patient safety programs to minimize the risk of such horrific behavior in the future.”

DailyMail.com also reached out to Columbia University and Northwell Health for comment.

It is unclear whether Paduch has retained an attorney to defend himself in these cases, as his criminal defense attorney, Michael Baldassare, has maintained his innocence of the criminal charges.

“We will continue to fight for him,” Baldassare said after the sentencing.