Urologist Charged In Superseding Indictment With Sexually Abusing Eight Patients, Including Minors

Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that a grand jury in Manhattan federal court returned a Superseding Indictment charging DARIUS A. PADUCH, a New York–area urologist, with seven counts of inducing a person to travel to engage in unlawful sexual activity and six counts of inducing a minor to engage in unlawful sexual activity, relating to his yearslong sexual abuse of eight victims who were his patients, six of whom were minors during part of the period of abuse.  On April 11, 2023, PADUCH was arrested after a four-count Indictment was unsealed charging him with sexually abusing two former patients who were minors during part of the period of abuse.  PADUCH has been detained on his federal charges since his arrest.  PADUCH’s case is assigned to U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams.  Trial is scheduled to commence on April 22, 2024.

U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: “As alleged, Darius A. Paduch was a serial sexual abuser.  Purporting to provide clinical care, Paduch instead violated patients — including minors — to gratify his own sexual desires.  As alleged in today’s Superseding Indictment, Paduch’s abuse was pervasive, spanning over a decade and victimizing patients inside and outside the clinical setting.  With today’s additional charges, my Office seeks to hold Paduch accountable for the full measure of his reprehensible conduct.”

According to the allegations in the Superseding Indictment unsealed today in Manhattan federal court:[1] 

Over the course of several years, PADUCH sexually abused multiple male patients, including minor male patients, while conducting purported urological examinations in his capacity as a medical doctor employed by a prestigious medical institution in New York, New York (“Medical Institution-1”).

From at least in or about 2007 through at least in or about 2019, PADUCH, while working as a urologist, enticed and induced multiple victims to travel to his medical offices at Medical Institution-1, so PADUCH could, among other things, sexually abuse the victims.  PADUCH also induced victims to travel to New Jersey where he abused and assaulted the victims under the guise of medical care.  In or about 2019, PADUCH began practicing at a different hospital located in Long Island, New York (“Medical Institution-2”), where he continued to sexually abuse patients.  PADUCH used his position as a urologist at prominent medical institutions in New York to make or attempt to make the victims believe that the sexual abuse he inflicted on them was medically necessary and appropriate, when, in fact, it was not.  PADUCH often directed the victims to schedule follow-up visits, and he instructed victims to return to see him again.  As a result, some of the victims attended many appointments with PADUCH over the course of multiple years, at which PADUCH repeatedly abused them.

As alleged, PADUCH induced six victims to travel to New York, New York, from or through another state to engage in unlawful sexual activity — in other words, his abuse of the victims.  As alleged in Count Six, PADUCH induced one victim to travel from New York to another state to engage in unlawful sexual activity.  PADUCH also used a telephone and other means of interstate commerce to induce six minor victims to engage in the unlawful sexual activity.

If you have been victimized by DARIUS PADUCH in any way or have any additional information about his alleged illegal behavior, please call 1-800-CALL-FBI or reach out at www.tips.fbi.gov.

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PADUCH, 56, of North Bergen, New Jersey, is charged as follows:

The minimum and maximum potential sentences in this case are prescribed by Congress and are provided here for informational purposes only, as any sentencing of the defendant will be determined by the judge.

Mr. Williams praised the outstanding investigative work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The prosecution is being handled by the Office’s Violent and Organized Crime Unit.  Assistant U.S. Attorneys Marguerite B. Colson, Elizabeth A. Espinosa, and Jun Xiang are in charge of the prosecution. 

The charges contained in the Superseding Indictment are merely accusations, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.