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AMY GOODMAN : Columbia School Irving Hospital and you may NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital achieved a couple of settlements with countless Hadden victims within the 2021 and you will 2022. This week, 301 more previous customers from Hadden just who claim they were sexually rooked and you may mistreated by the your filed a unique suit one contends Dr. ”

For much more, we’re inserted by the attorneys who’s become suing Columbia for more than 10 years to hold this new college or university guilty of concealing Hadden’s abuse, Anthony DiPietro. He could be joining all of us of Salt River Urban area, Utah, and additionally Evelyn Yang’s attorneys.

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Thanks for being with our team. So, because this was playing from it stunning bluish-air day for the Wednesday up from the Columbia College or university, the new sufferers away from Dr. Hadden, and more than one hundred scientific college students within their white coats, demanding your university alert new patients, Anthony DiPietro starting dating at 30, you’d just recorded another type of lawsuit. Columbia has paid out something similar to, just what, a quarter regarding an effective million dollars to customers off Hadden? Explore so it most recent suit.

ANTHONY DIPIETRO : Yeah, which is right, Amy. And you can thank you. You understand, brand new previous submitting that individuals generated earlier this times will bring the fresh total sufferers and you can survivors out-of Columbia University and you will Robert Hadden in order to more 538 customers. Robert Hadden mistreated unmarried feminine, hitched female, women that are pregnant, previous mothers. The guy even abused a beneficial sixteen-year-old, whom he’d got put, on their earliest GYN visit. The guy literally is the most prolific serial sexual predator regarding reputation for Nyc county.

AMY GOODMAN : So, describe. Simply take us to the start. I mean, on the Democracy Now!, we now have had numerous Hadden’s clients into. Is it possible you establish? There are two products right here. One is you to Dr. Hadden sexually attacked – was just found guilty, sentenced to help you two decades into the jail to own sexually assaulting customers. But there clearly was the problem from exactly what Columbia knew assuming the fresh new university understood it. Mention one, Anthony.

ANTHONY DIPIETRO : Sure. Thus, Columbia understood from the beginning whatever they was basically talking about having Robert Hadden, at every top. The latest chairperson, the risk administration anyone, they know what they was basically writing about. But for going back thirty-six age, these are generally concealing it abuse regarding the social, about clients, and also throughout the state prosecutors.

AMY GOODMAN : Thus, talk about the research you have of this. In reality, you’re in Utah nowadays. You’re in Salt Lake Area. Wasn’t they the patient now that is from inside the Utah which told you it notified Columbia age ago?

ANTHONY DIPIETRO : Proper. Thus, our clients spotted Evelyn Yang on tv several in years past and said – and you will reached off to us and you will said, “Hi, you realize, he mistreated myself from inside the 1993, and i penned a page into president, together with chairman composed back.”

ANTHONY DIPIETRO : And i also believe, you are sure that – the new president, new president of your Agency from Obstetrics and you may Gynecology, blogged right back, recognized that she try mistreated, and you will told you he had been going to keep up with the state, however, he had been happening vacation next week, and he carry out handle they when he got back. And then he never performed something.

AMY GOODMAN : I also had Laurie Kanyok on the recently, another type of from Dr. Hadden’s patients. This woman is the person who was simply in his office, also to their unique horror, she noticed him licking their unique. She called their own partner. She is most pregnant. Their mate raced to help you where she are, and you will are getting in touch with the police several times. Law enforcement concerned their residence, after that went to the new Columbia Medical, where Dr. Hadden is, his place of work, and had your arrested. Therefore, Columbia definitely knew when this occurs. Might you explore you to definitely instance? But really he was right back at your workplace another day, immediately after becoming detained because of the police for sexual assault.