UES Dr. Darius Paduch Convicted of All Sex Abuse Charges, Faces Up to 60 Years in Prison

Nightmare urologist, Darius A. Paduch, 56, of North Bergen, NJ, was convicted of 13 counts of sexual abuse against eight patients, including six boys, in U.S. federal court in Manhattan.

Paduch, who now faces up to 60 years of prison, will be sentenced on August 22. He worked at New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center and Northwell Health—and committed the abusive acts from 2015 to 2019.

Judge Ronnie Abrams presided over the trial, which began on April 26.

His appearance as a kind, bearded bow tie wearing doctor concerned about the well being of his patients, belied what prosecutors said was his long long history as a sex abuser..

“As a unanimous jury has just found, Darius A. Paduch leveraged his position of trust as a medical doctor for his own perverse gratification,” said U.S. Attorney Damian Williams following Pauduch’s conviction on May 8. “For years, patients seeking needed medical care, many of them children, left his office as victims. I commend the career prosecutors of this Office for bringing this important case to a just conclusion.”The physician, whose specialty was male reproductive health and infertility, was alleged to have patients masturbate in front of him; to have themselves be masturbated by him; to have various sex toys used upon them; and to submit to ungloved—and unnecessary—rectal exams, prosecutors charged.

The four-count indictment charging him with “inducement of a person to travel to engage in unlawful sexual activity and inducement of a minor to engage in unlawful sexual activity” among other charges.

Paduch had been held without bail ever since his arrest on April 11, 2023. “As alleged, for years, Darius Paduch abused the trust of patients, including minors, who saw him for sensitive medical problems,” Williams said at the time of his arrest. “Paduch took advantage of his victims for his own deviant satisfaction.”

The four-count indictment unsealed at that time charged him with “inducement of a person to travel to engage in unlawful sexual activity and inducement of a minor to engage in unlawful sexual activity” among other charges.

Among the graphic charges in the original indictment was the following:

“During multiple appointments with Minor Victim-1, Paduch played pornography and used his ungloved hand to masturbate Minor Victim-1 until Minor Victim-1 ejaculated,” the indictment said. “On at least one such occasion, after Minor Victim-1 ejaculated, Paduch smeared Minor Victim-1’s ejaculate on Minor Victim-1’s mouth and expressed incredulity that Minor Victim-1 had never tasted his own semen.”

News of Paduch’s arrest and indictment brought forth more witnesses, and the superseding indictment upon which Paduch was tried.

Speaking to the news website The Daily Beast (https://www.thedailybeast.com/sadistic-nyc-doc-darius-paduch-convicted-of-rampant-sexual-abuse-of-patients), Mallory Allen, a partner at Pfau Cochran Vertetis Amala PLLC, a law firm representing the survivors, said:

“For nearly twenty years, patients who trusted him for their medical care and treatment were instead brutalized by his degrading, sexually violating, and medically unfounded acts while the hospitals where he worked looked the other way.”

“The jury verdict in the criminal case affirms that these heinous acts will not be overlooked, and the pending civil cases will ensure that the institutions who repeatedly prioritized profits over their patients will face consequences for their indifference in ignoring years of complaints.”

Civil lawsuits from more than 130 of Paducah’s former patients are still pending.Paduch’s defense attorney Michael Baldassare said his client would appeal. “Dr. Darius Paduch has maintained his innocence since the start of this case. He maintains it to this day and we will continue to fight for him.”