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Bloomfield Doctor To Face Additional Sex Crime Charges

By Lependorf & Silverstein

A New Jersey doctor, already being accused of sexually assaulting 10 female patients, could face additional charges on suspicion of abusing more women in his care, according to a news report in the New York Times . According to the report, 64-year-old Raymond P. Russomanno was arrested for the second time in about a week and faces one charge of second-degree sexual assault and 23 counts of criminal sexual contact in incidents that reportedly occurred over the last five years or so, officials told the newspaper. His first arrest on Aug. 20 was spurred by a report from one of his patients ? a 27-year-old woman ? who told police that the doctor assaulted her when she visited him in his Bloomfield office. Russomanno has since been out on a $200,000...continue to full post

Full post as published by New Jersey Criminal Defense Blog on October 17, 2007 (boomark / email).