JUSTICE AFTER DEATH
Abuse suit still on
A sexual-abuse lawsuit against a noted New York doctor will continue to move through Manhattan federal court — even though the accused doc died earlier this week, The Post has learned.
A lawyer for the woman who filed the federal suit against Kevin Cahill (inset) under the pseudonym Jane Doe in 2020 said she expects the legal complaint to be transferred to the doctor’s estate.
“We have no plans to drop the lawsuit,” the woman’s lawyer, Aurore DeCarlo, told The Post. “I would expect that his estate’s representative would be substituted as defendant.”
Cahill, who was raised in The Bronx, had a distinguished medical career that spanned decades, once treating Pope John Paul II and Ronald Reagan, according to a bio published by Irish America.
In the Manhattan federal suit, the woman alleged Cahill romantically pursued her for years — despite a 50year age difference — after he first treated her for a parasitic infection when she was 19 years old in 2009.
Cahill developed an “infatuation” with the woman and sent her hundreds of communications by phone and in the mail, the suit says.
She rejected his advances for years but reached back out to him in 2018 after experiencing a medical issue, the suit states.
In two 2019 medical exams, Cahill allegedly penetrated her with his finger, groped her breasts and forcibly kissed her, the suit states.
Cahill, who died Wednesday at 86, had denied the allegations.
“He passed away yesterday at his home in Point Lookout, New York, of natural causes. He was a great man,” Cahill’s personal lawyer said Thursday.
In addition to treating world leaders and celebrities, Cahill served for some 50 years as President General of the American Irish Historical Society, Irish Central reported.
In a March letter filed in the suit, Cahill’s lawyer wrote to the judge that his client had recently suffered severe health problems, including a pituitary tumor and “heart failure.”
Cahill’s accuser declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy before filing her lawsuit. She has since amended her suit so that her creditors get paid with any money she might receive, court records show.