New York Daily News

Vics: Find & shred doc’s kid-sex pics

- BY ELIZABETH ELIZALDE AND LARRY MCSHANE

Sexual abuse victim Peter Katsikis remembers every creepy detail of his one childhood visit with Dr. Reginald Archibald.

The accused pedophile pediatrici­an ordered the 12-year-old to strip naked, then aggressive­ly touched him — and started snapping photos, he recounted Tuesday.

“Survivors never forget any of the facts,” Katsikis said at a news conference outside Rockefelle­r University Hospital, where Archibald practiced from 1948-80.

“I left the exam room very confused. You've got to understand — the '60s, 12 years old. We knew nothing about sex.”

Several of the dozens of accusers, all now adults, fear their pictures are possibly available decades later as child pornograph­y.

“Finding these photos is critical for our clients,” said attorney Michael Pfau, whose Seattlebas­ed law firm represents some of the alleged victims. “Hopefully the hospital can do the right thing and accelerate the investigat­ion.”

Archibald, who died in 2007, worked as an endocrinol­ogist specializi­ng in childhood growth. His victims charge the doctor used his position at the hospital to fondle, masturbate and photograph the genitals of his patients – most of them young and male.

Katsikis, asked what should happen to any photos still around from his only appointmen­t with Archibald, offered a quick response.

“After the litigation is over, let's have them destroyed,” he said.

Gail Coleman, 55, recalled seeing the doctor once a year for four years after turning 11. Archibald took photos of her during each twisted visit, she said.

“He touched me in ways that were clearly not normal,” recounted Coleman.

“It didn't feel good. The older I got, it always bothered me. But I was 11, and he was a famous doctor,” she said.

Officials at the Upper East Side hospital have acknowledg­ed inappropri­ate contact with Archibald's young patients, but have not said whether any photograph­s were found during an internal investigat­ion.

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