Sex for drugs: NRI doc in the dock
Abhay Vivek Aggoria, 51, has been charged with making a patient perform sex acts in return for treatment.
An Indian American doctor has been charged with asking sexual favours from a female patient for months in return for much-needed but highly addictive prescription drugs.
Abhay Vivek Aggoria, 51, of Woodbridge in the Greater Washington area was charged on Thursday with making a patient perform sex acts with him in return for treatment, in a case that is part of a broader probe into physicians, pharmacists and patients suspected of distributing potent narcotics.
Aggroia, who specialises in internal medicine, "sexually exploited" the unnamed patient, who had chronic back and neck pain from an auto accident, according to a criminal complaint and affidavit filed by Dana Crane, a State Police special agent, in US District Court in Alexandria, Virginia.
The affidavit said Aggroia fondled the woman and then prescribed Percocet pills for her during a series of office visits starting last year. The behaviour is alleged to have continued until January.
According to the court papers, at one point Aggroia told the woman that if she wanted more Percocet, she would have to provide "more" for him.
When the woman asked what that meant, Aggroia told her in "blunt and graphic terms" that he wanted oral sex, the papers said, adding she complied during weekly and bi-weekly visits because she had become addicted to the medication.
Officials said that they expect Aggroia to turn himself in to authorities today and to appear in court on a charge of unlawful distribution of a controlled substance, the Washington Post reported.
Reached by The Post at his office, Aggroia referred calls to his attorney, who declined to comment.