Andrew Yang's wife Evelyn says she was sexually assaulted by her gynecologist while pregnant

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• Evelyn Yang, the wife of Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, told CNN she was sexually assaulted by her OB-GYN while she was pregnant.
• Yang said she decided to speak publicly after seeing the support she and her husband had received while speaking about their son's autism on the campaign trail.
• Yang said she did not immediately tell her husband, but did so after learning that another patient had accused the doctor, Columbia University's Robert Hadden, of sexual abuse.
• Hadden pled guilty to forcible touching and a criminal sex act in 2016, leading him to lose his license. He has been registered as a sex offender but not serve jail time.
• Yang and at least 31 other women are suing Columbia University, saying it "actively concealed, conspired, and enabled" Hadden.
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Evelyn Yang, the wife of Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, said that she was sexually assaulted by her OB-GYN while pregnant with her first child.

In a CNN interview published Thursday, Yang accused Dr. Robert Hadden of Columbia University of multiple such assaults in 2012. One particularly harrowing occasion, she said, took place in her seventh month of pregnancy.

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