Darius Paduch Found Guilty of Sexual Abuse of Patients

A urologist who worked at two prominent New York hospitals was found guilty on Wednesday of sexually abusing seven patients, including five who were minors when the abuse began.

The doctor, Darius A. Paduch, 56, has been accused of molesting hundreds of young men and boys between 2006 and 2023. Prosecutors arrested Dr. Paduch last year, saying he had persuaded victims to travel to his offices in New York and New Jersey so he could abuse them under the guise of medical care.

Dr. Paduch “leveraged his position of trust as a medical doctor for his own perverse gratification,” Damian Williams, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, said in a statement on Wednesday. “For years, patients seeking needed medical care, many of them children, left his office as victims.”

A Manhattan jury found Dr. Paduch, of North Bergen, N.J., guilty of six counts of persuading, inducing, enticing or coercing an individual to travel to engage in unlawful sexual activity and five counts of using an interstate facility to persuade, induce, entice or coerce a minor to engage in unlawful sexual activity.

Anthony T. DiPietro, a lawyer representing more than 225 former patients ages 12 to 60 who have filed civil lawsuits, said it was going to take time for many of his clients to process the news. But, he said, “we are all grateful that Darius Paduch will never be able to do this to a single patient in New York State or anyplace else ever again.”

He added that it was common that victims of sexual abuse told no one. “They’ve been carrying this burden around with them, in some instances, for five years, 10 years or more,” he said. ”