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3 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Couple stabs each other during bloody fight in Queens apartment
A Queens couple stabbed each other during a violent fight inside a Queens apartment early Saturday, officials said. It was one of two bloody blade attacks that took place in the city within five hours, the NYPD said. The two victims, a 27-year-old man and a 24-year-old man, were inside their apartment at NYCHA's Pomonok Houses on Jewel Ave. near Parsons Blvd. in Flushing at about 4 a.m. when they started arguing with each other, cops said. As the fight continued, one of the men pulled a knife, cops said. The two stabbed each other as they fought over the knife. When cops arrived, each man was suffering from multiple stab wounds to the body, cops said. EMS rushed both victims to New York Presbyterian-Queens, where the younger man was rushed into surgery and listed in critical but stable condition. The older victim was also listed in stable condition. The knife was recovered as detectives determined what sparked the fight. There were no prior domestic incidents at the apartment, a police source with knowledge of the case said. In an unrelated incident five hours earlier, two men, both 53, were found slashed inside he basement of a Sunset Park, Brooklyn, home on 58th St. near Seventh Ave. One of the victims was slashed in the neck, cops said. The second man had a deep gash to his head. Both were taken to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn where the one slashed in the neck was listed in critical condition. The other man is expected to recover. No arrests have been made in either case. The bloody back to back attacks come as felony assaults in the city were down, but only by less than 1%. As of May 25, cops had investigated 11,066 felony assaults, 21 fewer than this time last year, cops said.
Malay Mail
07-05-2025
- Health
- Malay Mail
Victims of ‘predator' US gynaecologist secure US$750m landmark settlement
NEW YORK, May 7 — Columbia University and a New York hospital have reached a US$750-million settlement with hundreds of women sexually assaulted by a former gynaecologist, a lawyer for the victims said yesterday. Robert Hadden, described by prosecutors as a 'predator in a white coat,' is serving a 20-year prison sentence after being convicted last year of sexual abuse. Hadden was accused of abusing scores of women between the early 1990s and 2012, including Evelyn Yang, whose husband Andrew Yang ran for president in 2020 as a Democratic Party outsider. Attorney Anthony DiPietro, who represented some of Hadden's victims, said the US$750 million (RM 3.17 billion) settlement with Columbia and New York — Presbyterian Hospital involves 576 of the doctor's former patients. 'This settlement sends a powerful message that we're here to ensure that institutions covering up exploitation and abuse will be held fully accountable for their crimes,' DiPietro said in a statement. Evelyn Yang, who told CNN in 2020 that she was assaulted by Hadden in 2012 while seven months pregnant, and another woman, Marissa Hoechstetter, welcomed the settlement in a joint statement on X. 'Another enormous milestone has been reached in Hadden survivors' long quest for justice,' they said. 'As remarkable as this moment is, we know the numbers represent only a fraction of the reach of Hadden's crimes.' They added that Columbia still had 'significant work to do' to address the cover-up and the systemic issues that enabled 'the most prolific sexual predator in US history.' In a statement, Columbia said it had implemented 'a series of new and updated patient safety policies and programs to address the abuses of Robert Hadden.' Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) previously announced it had reached a US$165-million settlement with 147 of Hadden's patients. Columbia also agreed to a US$71.5-million settlement in 2021 between its hospitals and another 79 of Hadden's patients. — AFP
