Ex-Merrick pediatrician Stuart Copperman hit with $27 million sexual abuse judgment, faces more than 100 allegations
"I feel validated that it's not just me saying that he did these terrible things to me," said the victim.
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"I feel validated that it's not just me saying that he did these terrible things to me," said the victim.
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The award brings to a close the first of 104 lawsuits filed in 2021 against Copperman, who was stripped of his medical license in 2000 following complaints of sexual abuse.
A plaintiff in the lawsuit against Stuart Copperman, a former pediatrician accused of sexually abusing patients, who owned and operated a Merrick practice, was awarded $22 million in damages in a Mineola court last Friday.
/PRNewswire/ -- $22 million in damages has just been awarded by a New York State trial judge to the first of 104 patients-survivors of Stuart M. Copperman, the...