Sexually abusing male patients was what a former Boston pediatrician was accused of on Thursday in a lawsuit that further added that unnecessary medical examinations that were genital examinations were performed by him and the allegations led to his death, cause for which is yet to be found out.
 
Dr Melvin Levine was accused in the lawsuit, filed in Suffolk Superior Court by Boston attorney Carmen Durso that alleged him of harassing about 40 minor boys at the Children’s Hospital Boston when he was working there from 1066 to 1085.
 
According to the suit, in the time period of 20 years when he worked at the hospital, about 5,000 boys were treated in a very inappropriate way by Dr Levine.
 
Levine's defense attorney Edward Mahoney said, “Dr. Levine denies in the strongest terms possible the allegations. Levine has received widespread and unflagging support from patients and peers.”
 
Levine failed to act despite the Children's Hospital having knowledge of the sexual abuses he was doing and there were complaints against him regarding improper medical treatment, the suit alleged.
 
The Children's Hospital however said that no complaints from patients and parents were however made against Dr Levine while his tenure except one complaint which was lodged against him after he had left and was also sorted out after investigating it.