Doctor paid patient for sex, then coerced her to abort their baby

A doctor in Melbourne, Australia, was found guilty of three counts of professional misconduct after paying a patient for sex and then coercing her into an abortion.

Key Takeaways:

• Rabindranath Nagappa had a patient who was addicted to drugs and financially insecure.

• He paid her to have sex with him multiple times, and prescribed her addictive drugs, despite knowing about her addiction to amphetamines.

• When she got pregnant, he coerced her into having an abortion and then paid her $54,000.

• After having the abortion, the woman entered rehab; Nagappa fled the country and no longer practices medicine.

The Details:

The Herald Sun reported on Nagappa's scandal, which seemingly became public after a Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal hearing, in which he was found guilty of three counts of professional misconduct.

Nagappa and the patient, who was not named, were in contact between 2016 and 2020. According to the Australian Medical Board, the woman was his patient first, and though she was known to be addicted to amphetamines, as well as financially insecure, Nagappa still prescribed her addictive drugs, such as diazepam and oxycodone, without there being any medical reason to do so. Additionally, he began paying her for sex, making 548 payments totaling $119,000.

The woman eventually became pregnant. She told investigators that "In 2018, she fell pregnant to him. Dr Nagappa convinced her to terminate the pregnancy and paid her $54,500 to compensate her for this."

Though she said their relationship was consensual, describing it as "strictly business," she said that relationship changed after the abortion. She entered rehab and stopped seeing him.

The medical board still condemned their relationship as inappropriate and unprofessional, and added that Nagappa provided substandard care as a doctor. Furthermore, he opened himself up to blackmail, as a man romantically interested in the woman found out about the coerced abortion and began using it to extort Nagappa. The woman, however, said she did not know about the blackmail, nor agree with it.

Nagappa was ultimately slapped with three counts of professional misconduct; the medical board concluded:

Our decision is another reminder to health practitioners about the dangers of bringing one’s personal life into professional practice. The consequences for Dr Nagappa have been drastic. He lost his professional standing, adversely impacted a patient, hurt his family and became the subject of an alleged blackmail.

Nagappa fled Australia and is currently living overseas, and says he no longer practices medicine.

Zoom Out:

Abortion is frequently used by abusers to cover up their crimes while the abortion industry looks the other way.

In the United States, as Live Action’s Aiding Abusers investigation uncovered, there has been a systemic, decades-long cover-up of child sexual abuse by the abortion industry, including sex trafficking. The investigation includes recorded cases, interviews with former workers, and more. In another investigation, Planned Parenthood told actors posing as traffickers to pretend to be the guardians of minors and lie about the ages of their victims.

Numerous real-life predators have been aided by the abortion industry.

A report published by the Annals of Health Law in 2014 found that Planned Parenthood is well known to trafficking victims, who had “significant contact with clinical treatment facilities, most commonly Planned Parenthood.” Survivors have frequently testified to having undergone multiple abortions, typically at the demand of their pimps, with one saying Planned Parenthood was specifically chosen because “[they] didn’t ask any questions.”...

"I got pregnant six times and had six abortions during this time. Several of them were from a doctor who was a client — he did them back door — I came in the back door after hours and paid them off the books. This kept my name off any records… At least one of my abortions was from Planned Parenthood because they didn’t ask any questions."

Numerous studies have likewise found that traffickers use abortion to not only keep their victims able to work, but as a tool of subjugation.

The Bottom Line:

Abortion does not empower women or protect them from abuse. In reality, it enables abusers to hide their crimes and avoid accountability for the violence perpetuated on their victims.