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May 11, 2021
A bill in the New York State legislature for adult survivors of sexual abuse that is modeled after New York’s Child Victims Act has a good chance of passage this year.
The measure, if approved, might place Governor Andrew Cuomo, who is facing multiple sexual harassment allegations, in an awkward position.
Marissa Hoechstetter says former Columbia University doctor Robert Hadden sexually abused her when he conducted routine medical exams during her pregnancy in 2010.
In 2015, Hadden struck a plea deal with the Manhattan District Attorney’s to give up his medical license, but he received no jail time, and did not have to be listed on New York’s sex offender registry. At the time, 19 women had issued complaints against Hadden.
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Saying she and other adult sexual abuse survivors deserve their day in court, Marissa Hoechstetter is looking to the New York State Legislature to make
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Supporters say a bill in the New York State legislature for adult survivors of sexual abuse that’s modeled after New York’s Child Victims Act has a good chance of passing this year. The measure, if approved, might place Governor Andrew Cuomo, who is facing multiple sexual harassment allegations, in an awkward position.
Marissa Hoechstetter says former Columbia University doctor Robert Hadden sexually abused her when he conducted routine medical exams during her pregnancy in 2010.
In 2015, Hadden struck a plea deal with the Manhattan District Attorney’s to give up his medical license, but he received no jail time, and did not have to be listed on New York’s sex offender registry. At the time, 19 women had issued complaints against Hadden.
Pfau is already planning to sue two religious orders the Franciscan Friars and the Christian Brothers for alleged sex abuse cases in Albany and the Buffalo areas.
In one of those cases, Fr. Luke Rutter, a Franciscan priest who worked at St. Francis High School in Athol Springs, New York, is accused of molesting Scott Heldwein a student in the 1980s who lived in the school’s freshman and sophomore dormitories.
“He would take me to dinners at nice restaurants and all that,” Heldwein said. “The abuse always happened when – I don’t know if he slipped something in my drink or whatever – but it always happened when alcohol and marijuana was involved.”