A woman is suing the East Hartford doctor previously accused of raping a patient, claiming that he had sex with her in a hotel after giving her a drug cocktail and telling her that he had to be the first to have intercourse with her after pelvic surgery, court documents show.
During her treatment, the doctor indicated to the patient “that he must be the first to have sexual intercourse with her after the surgery repairing her prolapsed organs,” the complaint states. The suit also charges that Njoku gave the woman “combinations of pain killing drugs” and allowed her to use alcohol with the drugs “to entice her to have sexual intercourse,” the complaint states. The woman became Njoku’s patient in April 2009. She began suffering extreme pain and complications from a hysterectomy and the surgical removal of uterine fibroid tumors in June 2009, according to the suit. The suit does not indicate whether Njoku performed the surgery. Eight months later, in February 2010, her pelvic organs dropped, pressing against the wall of her vagina, requiring surgery, the suit says. The same medical emergency — known as pelvic organ prolapse — occurred again in June 2010, when Njoku had sexual intercourse with the woman, according to the suit. The complaint indicates that the two were in a hotel room at the time. “At such time, the defendant was further negligent in (a) that he attempted to utilize a non-sterile towel from the hotel in order to push the organs back in her; (b) …he abandoned her at the location with no assistance,” the complaint states. Njoku has been criminally charged with sexual assault in connection with the treatment of another patient, who has come forward and allowed her name to be used in public. That woman, Anoilan Drago of Hartford, has accused Njoku of raping her in his examining room and then sending a pastor to her home to offer her money to keep quiet. Njoku has pleaded not guilty and is free after posting $825,000 bail. Drago has also filed a civil suit against the doctor. The Connecticut Medical Examining Board has suspended Njoku’s license — and is currently determining whether it should be reinstated. Drago has testified emotionally before the board. After she testified, Njoku denied the allegations despite what investigators have called strong DNA evidence validating the woman’s claim. Police have said that as many as 20 women had filed complaints against Njoku after Njoku’s arrest was announced. Lt. Ricardo Soto of the East Hartford Police Department said that the investigation into the doctor remains active. The new civil suit charges that the doctor gave the woman combinations of Temazepam, Lorazepam, Oxycontin and Oxycodone so that “she would become reliant upon his services when he knew (or should have known) that the Medicare insurance that the plaintiff presented prevented her from other referral sources,” and “she would become reliant upon his services when he knew (or should have known) that such should not be combined and that such are addictive in nature,” according to the papers. He “utilized this combination so that the plaintiff believed that sexual intercourse was required and necessary and so that she was pressured into such activity,” the lawsuit states. The complaint also charges that Njoku had sexual intercourse with the woman in a rough manner and before she was capable of having sex. As a result of Njoku’s actions, the woman suffered “a violent mental shock,” was forced to undergo more surgeries, and now has to use incontinence pads, the complaint charges. …. By DENISE BUFFA The Hartford Courant 5:46 PM EST, March 8, 2012
