Ricardo Cruciani
LawandCrime.com
New York Jury Convicts Neurologist on a Dozen Counts for Raping and Sexually Assaulting Six of His Patients
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…Ricardo Cruciani, 68, has now stands convicted on a dozen charges, including a count of predatory sexual assault, one count of attempted rape in the first degree, one count of sexual abuse in the first degree, two counts of rape in the third degree, and seven counts of criminal sexual act in the third degree.
His sentencing has been scheduled for Sept. 14. The predatory sexual assault charge is itself punishable by up to life in prison…
Between 2002 and 2017, Cruciani abused women for about 15 years and, leveraging his access to opioids, “persuaded, induced, enticed, and coerced certain victims to travel across state lines to subject them or attempt to subject them to unlawful sexual abuse,” federal prosecutors say…
Prosecutors say that Cruciani talked about his family matters and other personal issues with patients in order to build a relationship and exploited his training as a psychiatrist to ask “intrusive and revealing questions about private matters.”…
Excerpted from:New York Jury Convicts Neurologist on a Dozen Counts for Raping and Sexually Assaulting Six of His Patients
By Adam Klasfeld
LawandCrime.com
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