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Urgent Care Doctor Convicted Of Raping, Groping Women During Exams In Montgomery County Urgent Care Doctor Convicted Of Raping, Groping Women During Exams In Montgomery County
Urgent Care Doctor Convicted Of Raping, Groping Women During Exams In Montgomery County An urgent care doctor who groped, inappropriately touched, and sexually abused patients during routine exams is facing more than four decades in prison, according to officials. Dr. Ishtiaq Malik, 59, of Lanham, was convicted by a jury for targeting at least two patients in his care at the Advanced Walk-In Urgent Care at 10800 Lockwood Drive in Silver Spring, where he was arrested last year. Malik was taken into custody on Feb. 16, 2023 outside of his practice, and since then, eight additional victims came forward. Malik was found guilty on Friday of two counts each of second-degree ra…

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by Zak Failla
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Former DMV-Area Doctor Gets Prison Time For Prescribing Pills Leading To Fatal OD: Officials Former DMV-Area Doctor Gets Prison Time For Prescribing Pills Leading To Fatal OD: Officials
Former Dmv-area Doctor Gets Prison Time For Prescribing Pills Leading To Fatal OD: Officials A Louisiana doctor who used to practice in DC and Falls Church, Virginia, will spend more than a year in jail for illegally distributing oxycodone and hydrocodone to a Fairfax County man who later died of an overdose. Dr. Robert Cao, 39, was sentenced in US District Court for the District of Columbia to 15 months in prison on five felony counts of unlawful distribution of a controlled substance outside the scope of his professional practice, federal officials announced. According to court documents, Cao, who was licensed to practice medicine in the District of Columbia and Virginia wrote mu…

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by Zak Failla
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Former Drexel Neurology Chair Who Sexually Abused Patients Dies By Suicide In Jail: AP Former Drexel Neurology Chair Who Sexually Abused Patients Dies By Suicide In Jail: AP
Former Drexel Neurology Chair Who Sexually Abused Patients Dies By Suicide In Jail: AP Drexel University's former chairman of the neurology department convicted of sexually assaulting patients died by suicide in a New York City jail, sources tell the Associated Press. Dr. Ricardo Cruciani was found unresponsive in a shower area of the Eric M. Taylor Center on Rikers Island Monday, Aug. 18, the AP reports. The 68-year-old doctor's attorney confirmed that he died but not the manner of death. Cruciani, who was facing life in prison, allegedly got dozens of female patients hooked on painkillers he prescribed before sexually abusing them over the course of 15 years at area h…

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by Nicole Acosta & Cecilia Levine
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Palisades Park Woman, 73, Charged With Killing Baby Palisades Park Woman, 73, Charged With Killing Baby
Palisades Park Woman, 73, Charged With Killing Baby UPDATE: A 73-year-old Guatemalan national living in Palisades Park who was charged with the death of an 11-month-old baby allegedly had been treating people in the area for years -- including the dead infant's older brother. Elida Catalan-Medina was charged earlier this week with aggravated manslaughter and illegally practicing medicine for giving baby Genesis a fatal dose of magnesium, olive oil and water to treat constipation, court documents show. Enma Medina, 38, who lives across town, took the infant to Medina-Ramos's home last Dec. 7 because the infant was sick, according to an affida…

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by Jerry DeMarco