Robert Hadden, the previous New York gynecologist convicted of federal intercourse crimes after assaulting lots of of girls in his care, was remanded into federal custody on Wednesday.
His attorneys had argued that he may stay outdoors of a detention facility till his sentencing, which is scheduled for April 25. In court docket filings, they argued that he posed a low danger of fleeing — and that his final identified sexual crimes have been dedicated greater than a decade in the past.
The choose, nonetheless, sided with the victims and federal prosecutors.
Wednesday’s bail listening to within the Hadden case got here every week after a jury voted to convict Hadden of federal intercourse crimes.
His case is among the largest intercourse crime instances to emerge in the previous few years. Greater than 200 girls have come ahead to say Hadden abused them throughout examinations, together with Evelyn Yang, spouse to former presidential and mayoral candidate Andrew Yang.
Hadden labored as a gynecologist at Columbia University’s affiliated hospitals till 2012.
At his bail listening to on Wednesday, 9 of Hadden’s victims spoke.
“He has proven he has an illness he cannot control,” mentioned Emily Anderson, the primary sufferer to converse.
“I can’t help but be struck by the fact that Dr. Hadden was able to abuse so many women for so long because he worked for Columbia,” mentioned one other witness, Katya Herman.
Federal prosecutors mentioned accounts of Hadden’s abuse date again to a minimum of 1993.
They mounted vigorous arguments for conserving Hadden in federal custody — saying he has not confirmed that he’s not a flight danger or a risk to the neighborhood, or to himself forward of a ultimate judgment.
“The defendant was a sophisticated sexual predator who employed various strategies to carry out his crimes,” federal prosecutors wrote in a court docket submitting.
On Wednesday, on the conclusion of his listening to, Hadden checked out his spouse as court docket marshals handcuffed him and escorted him out.
A spokesperson for Columbia University couldn’t instantly be reached for remark.