Fertility Doctor Accused Of Molesting Anesthetized Female Patients For 10 Years

A Massachusetts clinic's medical doctor has been accused of molesting his patients while they were under anesthetic, for at least a decade, UK MailOnline reported.

Dr. Roger Ian Hardy, from the Fertility Centers of New England, has had a total of 18 witnesses, including nurses, surgical technicians, colleagues, and other fertility physicians, testify to witnessing him rub patients' genitals, attempt to stimulate them while sedated using a hose and touch their breasts.

According to records of a state investigation, a patient filed a complaint against the doctor in 2004. But the case was closed down by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine without any action being taken against Hardy.

Although three other incidents of alleged molestation were reported over the years by his employees, the 55-year-old went on to practice medicine.

"According to the Boston Globe, which obtained the documents, it was only this year that the 20-year veteran of reproductive endocrinology resigned his medical license after new allegations were made to the medical board, sparking an investigation," UK MailOnline reported.

"On January 21, Hardy stepped down. The redacted records do not shed any light on why Hardy's alleged behavior was allowed to continue for so long. Hardy denied the claims to a board investigator before his resignation, suggesting they might be a competitor attempting to frame him for their own benefit, according to the records."

In 2004, it was a patient who first made a complaint about the physician. The alleged victim described suffering trauma to her genitals during a procedure Hardy performed in December 2003 at the Hunt Center in Danvers, then part of Beverly Hospital, according to the Globe.

Hardy, a University of Cincinnati College of Medicine graduate, was also licensed in Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maine, and California. His license has been suspended by Maine and New Hampshire.

His attorney, Martin Foster of Cambridge, did not return the Globe's calls seeking comment, UK MailOnline reported.

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