Manhattan Gynecologist Faces Federal Charges Over 6 Sex Abuse Accusations

A Manhattan gynecologist accused by the wife of former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang of sexually assaulting her now faces federal charges related to the sexual abuse of women, according to a new indictment released on Wednesday.

The former doctor, Robert A. Hadden, who has lost his medical license, was charged with six counts of enticing women, including one minor, to engage in illegal sex acts.

The indictment says that over more than a decade, Mr. Hadden “sexually abused dozens of female patients, including multiple minors, under the guise of conducting purported gynecological and obstetric examinations” at his medical office and at hospitals in Manhattan.

The indictment identifies six victims of Mr. Hadden only by numbers, and it was not immediately clear whether any of those cases included that of Evelyn Yang, the former candidate’s wife, who told CNN in January that Mr. Hadden sexually assaulted her in his exam room in 2012 when she was seven months pregnant with her first child.

The federal charges against Mr. Hadden are expected to be announced at a news conference on Wednesday by Audrey Strauss, the acting United States attorney in Manhattan, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the head of the New York office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Mr. Hadden has been under a separate investigation by the office of the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., who has been sharply criticized for allowing Mr. Hadden to avoid jail in a 2016 plea deal after he had been accused of sexual abuse by 19 patients.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/nyregion/robert-hadden-gynecologist-indicted.html