(24 Jan 2023)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York - 24 January 2023
1. Various of gynecologist Robert Hadden exiting courthouse after conviction
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Evelyn Yang, victim:
"Well, it's incredibly -- it's an incredible relief, first of all. But it's also validating. You know, the jury came back with their verdict so quickly and he was found guilty on all counts. And that just, I think, leaves no doubt in anyone's mind that he was a serial predator who deserves to be in prison."
3. Wide of Yang
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Evelyn Yang, victim:
"You know, it's very uncomfortable to talk about this, as I'm sure, for all Hadden survivors. But we do it because we're trying to help other people. And one of the things that I'm incredibly proud of is passing the Adult Survivors Act. So if you were assaulted by Hadden or sexually assaulted by anyone else in the state of New York, you have until November 2023 to file a claim in court. And and I think that, you know, the work that we've been doing has led -- all of the survivors -- has led to this day. So this is just such a victory for all of us."
5. Wide of victim Laurie Kanyok
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Laurie Kanyok, victim:
"I started seeing him in 2011 and I gave birth in 2012 and was abused multiple times during my pregnancy. And then when I really, really understood exactly what was happening was June 29th, 2012, on my six week postpartum appointment, and that's when I called the police."
7. STILL of Hadden exiting court
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Laurie Kanyok, victim:
"It's a lot of work to be done still. I mean, this is a victory today for many, for all of us. But we still have a lot to deal with. You know, we have to start talking about safeguarding in the medical system, safeguarding the patients. That's huge. We have to start talking about teaching women to self advocate."
9. STILL of Hadden exiting court
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Laurie Kanyok, victim:
"It's a lifetime that I have to carry this. And giving birth to a daughter also, or even if I have given birth to a son, you know, he robbed me of that experience. Truly. So my life's work is to overcome that on a daily basis. He shouldn't have walked out of here."
++ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++

SOUNDBITE:
A gynecologist who molested patients during a decades long career was convicted of federal sex trafficking charges Tuesday after nine former patients told a New York jury how the doctor they once trusted attacked them sexually when they were most vulnerable.
A Manhattan federal court jury returned its verdict after deliberating less than a day in the case against Robert Hadden, 64, who worked at two prestigious Manhattan hospitals — Columbia University Irving Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital — until complaints about his attacks shut down his career a decade ago.
The institutions have already agreed to pay more than $236 million to settle civil claims by more than 200 former patients.
Hadden's lawyers admitted that their client had sexually abused patients, but they said his guilty plea to charges in state court seven years ago put those crimes behind him.
Prosecutors said federal charges were appropriate because Hadden, of Englewood, New Jersey, enticed women to cross state lines so he could attack them.
Defense lawyers argued that he didn't know patients were coming from other states, including New Jersey and Nevada.
An indictment charged Hadden with sexually abusing patients from 1993 through at least 2012, although a prosecutor noted during a closing argument on Monday that a nurse testified that he was molesting patients in the late 1980s.

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