Jurors hearing evidence Monday against a former New York gynecologist accused of sexually abusing nearly 150 patients can “cancel" and "condemn him," but they should acquit him of federal charges that he enticed women to cross state lines to be abused because he didn't know where they were coming from, his lawyer said in an opening statement.
Defense attorney Deirdre Von Dornum told jurors as the Manhattan trial of Robert Hadden, 64, got underway that her client pleaded guilty to state charges seven years ago, admitting that he had sexually abused patients. She said he has not treated patients in the last decade.
