Sicko doc gets 2 years
A former Mount Sinai Hospital doctor who sexually assaulted four emergency-room patients was sentenced Monday to two years in prison as a victim tearfully recounted her horrific encounter with the disgraced physician.
Dr. David Newman, 46, plied the patient, then 29, with propofol — the same powerful sedative that killed Michael Jackson — and then ejaculated on her face.
“I remember thinking I was going to die if I didn’t get out of here,” the woman said in Manhattan Supreme Court as she recalled the Jan. 12, 2016, attack.
She had gone to the hospital for a routine shoulder injury.y After Newman admii nnistered the sedative, the victim lost consciousness but said she awoke during the assault.
The woman, who has filed a civil suit against Newman and the hospital, preserved a DNA sample and went to the police.
“I want to get away from the disgust I feel whenever I think about you assaulting me, the feeling of being worthless, the embarrassment,” she seethed, as Newman looked at her from the defense table.
She said that she had taught her daughter to trust only her and her doctor with her body, and asked, “What do I tell her now?”
She told Newman, “I believe you’re only sorry because you got caught.”
As part of a plea deal, Newman, a father of two from Montclair, NJ, also admitted to groping three other women during separate visits to the ER in 2015. He pleaded guilty to five counts of sexual abuse.
“What I did was awful and disgusting and I’m sorry,” he said meekly on Monday.
Prior to the criminal case, Newman frequently lectured on improving patient-doctor relationships.