Chicago Area Doctor Accused of Sexual Abuse in Lawsuit

A lawsuit against two top Chicago hospitals accuses an OB-GYN of
sexually abusing more than 300 women over decades, most of them Latina and Spanish speaking, and alleges that the hospitals ignored the women’s complaints.

Fabio Ortega,
77, who pleaded guilty in 2021 to sexually abusing two patients is the doctor in question. The
suit, filed on behalf of one woman, alleges staff members at NorthShore
Medical Group and Swedish Covenant Hospital, now both operated by
Endeavor Health, concealed complaints about the former doctor’s behavior
for years leading up to his 2021 conviction and “knowingly gave him a
platform to sexually abuse” hundreds more patients.

“Women
reported. They reported again and again and again,” attorney Symone
Shinton said at a news conference Tuesday announcing the suit. “They
were told to question their very experiences as women. They were told
that the very abuse that they complained about was medically necessary
and normal.”

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