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AMY GOODMAN : Columbia College Irving Healthcare facility and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital reached a couple of settlements that have hundreds of Hadden subjects in 2021 and you may 2022. Recently, 301 a lot more previous people of Hadden whom allege they were sexually taken advantage of and abused because of the your submitted a different sort of lawsuit one contends Dr. ”

To get more, our company is entered from the attorneys who’s become suing Columbia for more than ten years to hold the fresh new college or university responsible for covering up Hadden’s abuse, Anthony DiPietro. They are signing up for you out of Sodium River Town, Utah, plus Evelyn Yang’s lawyer.

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Thanks for being around. Thus, because is to experience on it stunning bluish-heavens date towards Wednesday upwards on Columbia School, the brand new sufferers regarding Dr. Hadden, also more than a hundred medical students within their light coats, requiring that college notify this new patients, Anthony DiPietro, you’d just filed a separate lawsuit. Columbia has paid something such as, what, one fourth off an excellent billion bucks in order to customers of Hadden? Discuss that it newest lawsuit.

ANTHONY DIPIETRO : Yeah, which is best, Amy. And thank-you. You know, the fresh recent submitting that individuals made this past day will bring new total subjects and survivors off Columbia College and you will Robert Hadden so you can over 538 patients. Robert Hadden abused solitary female, hitched feminine, expectant mothers, previous moms and dads. The guy also mistreated a good 16-year-dated, exactly who he’d had brought, during the her first GYN go to. The guy virtually is among the most respected serial sexual predator on the reputation for Ny county.

AMY GOODMAN : Therefore, establish. Capture all of us back once again to the beginning. What i’m saying is, on Democracy Today!, we’ve got had many Hadden’s patients toward. Could you identify? There’s two situations here. You’re you to Dr. Hadden sexually attacked – was just found guilty, sentenced so you’re able to two decades within the prison getting sexually assaulting customers. Then again there is the difficulty regarding exactly what Columbia understood assuming the latest university realized it. Speak about you to, Anthony.

ANTHONY DIPIETRO : Yes. Very, Columbia realized right away whatever they was in fact making reference to which have Robert Hadden, at each and every peak. Brand new chairperson, the chance government individuals, they knew what they was writing on. But also for during the last thirty-six decades, they’re hiding that it punishment on the social, from the customers, and also about condition prosecutors.

AMY GOODMAN : Therefore, discuss the evidence you have associated with. In fact, you are in Utah now. You are in Sodium River Urban area. Was not they the patient now that is when you look at the Utah just who said it informed Columbia age in the past?

ANTHONY DIPIETRO : Best. So, one of the clients noticed Evelyn Yang on television two years ago and you can told you – and you will achieved out to all of us and said, “Hi, you realize, this guy mistreated me inside the 1993, and that i wrote a letter toward president, and the president published straight back.”

ANTHONY DIPIETRO : And that i faith, you are aware – the latest president, the fresh chairman of your Agency of Obstetrics and Gynecology, penned straight back, approved one to she is actually abused, and you can said he had been gonna take care of the condition, however, he had been taking place trips in a few days, and then he carry out handle it as he got back. In which he never did things.

AMY GOODMAN : We in addition to had Laurie Kanyok for the has just, an alternative away from Dr. Hadden’s clients. She’s the person who had been within his workplace, Armenian naisten morsiamet in order to their own headache, she considered your licking their own. She titled their unique companion. She is extremely pregnant. Their particular mate raced so you’re able to in which she was, and you will was getting in touch with law enforcement many times. The authorities involved their property, upcoming went right to the brand new Columbia Health, in which Dr. Hadden was, their office, together with him arrested. Thus, Columbia positively know when this occurs. Do you really mention that situation? Yet , he was right back at your workplace another month, immediately after getting detained from the police to possess sexual assault.