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A Manhattan woman sexually assaulted by a doctor during a breast cancer screening is suing the physician and the Harlem clinic where she was attacked, claiming the company knew he’d assaulted other people before her.
Kim Lewis, 58, was attacked by Mark H. Jackson, 62, during a Sept. 15, 2017 appointment during which he barricaded the exam room door with a chair to keep a nurse away.
Jackson was arrested about a year after the attack on Lewis, and two other victims later came forward, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s office. Jackson pleaded guilty in November 2019 to rape and forcible touching charges and was sentenced to two years in prison and 10 years of post-release supervision.
The physician already had a checkered past when he came to Start Treatment & Recovery Centers, which operated the West 124th Street clinic where Lewis was attacked, she said in a Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit.
Jackson, who was forced to register as a sex offender after his guilty plea, had lost his medical license in 1997 after he was convicted on a drug charge, but applied to have it reinstated in December 2000 and was put on probation, according to court papers. Start Treatment was on notice that Jackson had previous incidents of “inappropriate touching of other patients,” Lewis charges in the legal filing.
“Though this facility was supposed to be a safe space for Ms. Lewis and the other patients seeking treatment there, it was anything but that,” said Lewis’ lawyer, Ellie Silverman.
Start Recovery didn’t return a message. Jackson couldn’t be reached.
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