‘Predator’ urologist Darius Paduch faces 143 more charges after being found guilty of sexually abusing patients in New York hospitals

A convicted Manhattan urologist is facing hundreds of civil lawsuits over alleged sexual abuse of his patients, with court documents detailing the horrors his victims reportedly endured.

According to the New York Times, Dr. Darius Paduch was found guilty in May of six counts of persuading, inducing, luring or coercing a person to travel for the purpose of unlawful sexual conduct. He was also found guilty of five counts of using an interstate facility to persuade, induce, lure or coerce a minor to engage in unlawful sexual conduct.

But according to a report in the New York Post, the former doctor now faces a total of 310 individual lawsuits against him and the hospital systems where he practiced after 143 more male patients came forward.

The sheer number of complainants alone makes it the largest case against a single male abuser, as newly filed court documents suggest that Paduch abused “probably thousands of victims and survivors.”

“Darius Paduch exploited more male patients than any other sex offender in history,” plaintiff Anthony T. DiPietro told the Post.

The victims were of all ages, from retirees to minors, whom he treated at New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, Columbia University and the Northwell Health System in the New York City area.

Paduch injected patients with a serum into their penises to force long-lasting erections, performed penis enlargements that caused disfigurement, performed cystoscopies – in which a tube is inserted through the penis into the urethra – without anesthesia and forced some patients to get on all fours during the exams, according to documents filed Tuesday in Manhattan Supreme Court.

During some sessions, Paduch walked around with a pen and pointed to parts of the patients' naked bodies “as if he were acting as a professor,” the documents reportedly say.

He also sometimes measured his patients’ erect penises and used “phallus-shaped sex toys.”

In some cases, abuse even occurred in front of nurses, assistants and other doctors, the civil lawsuit says.

Newly filed court documents suggest that Paduch likely abused “thousands of victims and survivors.”

One victim also said Paduch squeezed his penis so hard that “he was bruised for weeks,” and another claimed the doctor prescribed so many unnecessary medications that he suffered liver failure.

In another case, while a 56-year-old patient was lying on the examination table, Paduch allegedly unzipped his pants and told the man “he wanted to show him what an erect penis looks like.”

Court documents also show that one of the alleged victims saw Paduch for over a decade, starting at age 7. Another victim said she was a victim of abuse when she was just 13 years old.

“It is worse than I could have ever imagined,” the mother of one of the youngest plaintiffs, a patient at Weill-Cornell Medical Center, told The Post in a statement provided by DiPietro.

“When I found out what happened during those visits, it almost killed me.”

Paduch, who began working in the city in 2003, continued his practice until 2023 – even though court records show his employer knew about his abuse since at least 2017.

“Patients trust these so-called ‘top hospitals’ to provide them with safe and appropriate medical care for their deeply personal suffering,” DiPietro said.

“Patients don’t go into a doctor’s office thinking they’re going to be taken advantage of by some deviant in a white lab coat.”

The doctor was found guilty in May of six counts of persuading, inducing, luring or coercing a person to travel to engage in illicit sexual conduct and five counts of using an interstate facility to persuade, induce, lure or coerce a minor to engage in illicit sexual conduct.

Paduch worked for a number of hospitals in the New York City area, including Weill-Cornell Medical Center

The lawyer had already filed a class action lawsuit against Paduch and his employer in August of last year, several months after the doctor was charged with telling seven male patients – including two minors – to masturbate while he played porn and for performing rectal exams without gloves.

In one section of the indictment, the 55-year-old is accused of telling patients that they were masturbating incorrectly and then touching their penises.

The prosecution also accuses Paduch of touching his victims' penises, pressing himself against them and openly discussing penis sizes and sexual activities.

He “exploited his position of trust as a doctor for his own perverse gratification,” said US Attorney Damian Williams after Paduch was found guilty in May.

“For years, patients in need of medical attention, many of them children, left his practice as victims.”

DiPietro also said at the time that he was “grateful that Darius Paduch will never be able to do this to a single patient in New York State or anywhere else again.”

Paduch's medical license was suspended by the state Department of Health last year and is expected to be permanently revoked following his conviction.

Paduch's medical license was suspended by the state Department of Health last year, and following his conviction, it is expected to be permanently revoked.

Still, DiPietro is pursuing civil lawsuits against the doctor and the hospitals he worked for after a judge in July rejected an attempt by Paduch's lawyers to dismiss the class action lawsuit and keep it sealed.

However, the 143 new victims are not part of the civil lawsuit and have filed their own lawsuits.

A Weill-Cornell Medicine spokesperson told The Washington Post that the hospital was “heartbroken for these survivors” and said it had “made improvements to our policies and training requirements and implemented new patient safety programs to minimize the risk of such heinous behavior in the future.”

DailyMail.com has also reached out to Columbia University and Northwell Health for comment.

It is unclear whether Paduch has hired a civil attorney to defend him in these cases, as his criminal defense attorney, Michael Baldassare, has insisted he is innocent.

“We will continue to fight for him,” Baldassare said after the sentencing.