Robert Hadden, former Columbia University gynecologist who prosecutors said 'abused his position of power to assault patient after patient, year after year,' has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
In this Jan 24, 2023 file photo Robert Hadden, center, leaves the federal courthouse in New York.Robert Hadden, the former Columbia University gynecologist who prosecutors said "abused his position of power to assault patient after patient, year after year," is slated to be sentenced to 20 years in prison, but a federal court judge is mulling a request from his attorneys to speak.for sexually abusing four of his patients, including a minor, and two who were pregnant.
However, the judge didn't formally impose the sentence after he agreed to consider a last-minute request from Hadden's attorneys to have their client speak when court resumes Tuesday morning. Hadden, who worked at Columbia University and New York-Presbyterian Hospital, pled not guilty in September 2020 afteron charges he enticed and induced victims to his medical offices and subjected them to unlawful sexual abuse.
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