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Exposed: Cover-Up at Columbia University

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Exposed: Cover-Up at Columbia University

Wondery

True Crime

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

When a trusted Columbia University OB-GYN is exposed as a serial predator, and no one is held accountable, the survivors embark on a decade-long fight for justice.


From Wondery, Exposed: Cover-Up at Columbia University is a story about power: who has it, who loses it, and what it takes to get it back. Listen on Wondery+ or wherever you get your podcasts beginning on 9/11.

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0:00.0

I was somewhere between shock hyperventilation and sort of like, I got to get out of here.

0:13.2

I just kept saying I got to get out of here.

0:15.8

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0:26.8

He said nobody ever wins against a system like Columbia.

0:30.5

I felt like she was telling me with her eyes, don't come back, but she was afraid of losing her job.

0:38.1

I was trying to do calculations on my head like how many patients does someone see in a day?

0:41.9

What are the sheer numbers of victims here?

0:44.7

I slowly came to realize that I was dealing with a sexual abuser of epic proportions.

0:51.4

When a serial predator hides behind power and prestige,

0:55.5

now we know that women did come forward and it's still continued to happen.

0:59.1

It's not even that she didn't believe me, it was more like, suck it up.

1:04.6

In New York State, if you're an administrator in a hospital and you have a credible accusation of sexual assault,

1:11.4

you are legally responsible to report to the medical board.

1:14.8

But why would you? There's no punishment if you don't.

1:18.8

What will it take to expose him?

1:21.7

I was furious.

1:23.0

There was no way Columbia could claim that they didn't have a hand in him assaulting me.

1:30.1

No prison, no community service, no parole, no any kind of monitoring.

1:37.8

I was absolutely numb.

1:40.0

And how do the survivors fight back against the systems that failed them?

1:45.6

The goal was to have him stop hurting other people anywhere, in any state, in any country.

1:52.0

For the first time, I realized that I wasn't alone.

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