robert hadden.putable. back then, anyway. i felt privileged almost to be under their care. the father and i met with robert hadden and he seemed like a grandpa, like a santa claus type. soft, mild, you know, unassuming . the reputation was there. he was protected by the university hospital. we decided to go with that. i had not given it a not that he was a man, seeing a man. i was concerned with the safety of this fetus and seeing that everything was ok. so we were off to the races with him. i guess it was late october, i don't remember exactly when, and he began the treatment. i had a series of genetic testing and we learned the fetus was completely healthy and we were fine and we decided, let's do this. we began. because i was geriatric, because i had all of these things, my main concern was her heartbeat and her health. as you mentioned, there were a couple of instances while i was very pregnant -- it was sort of an afterthought. i said to myself the first time, that felt strange. but again, i wa

>> sure, so robert hadden wasn't ob/gyn at columbia university.ticed for about 25 years and we now know today that over the course of his career, he was actually sexually abusing his patients. and at this 0.245 survivors have come forward. but we actually expect that there will likely be many more. and we've also learned that throughout this, colombia helped enable the abuse. >> but why? why this guy? i want to be careful how i see this because i'm, by no means, defending the catholic church. but when i look at the cover-ups, the abuse that happens in the church i could kind of see the hierarchy, the power, the secrecy, why this one individual? this one awful doctor? why would they protect him? >> it's a great question. and it's one that we try to answer. and we really have not found the satisfactory answer. there was nothing particularly special about him. he was just a regular ob/gyn on staff. but what we think is that they most likely just didn't believe the women who were reporting him. because there were patients dating back to 1992. and this

(bright music) two months ago, former columbia university ob/gyn, robert hadden was sentenced to 20 yearsson for sexually abusing dozens and dozens of patients. and now there's new reporting about what happened at columbia during that time. we want to let you know upfront, this is a disturbing story in a very difficult one to discuss. but we believe it's important for you to know about. if the story comes to us from propublica. and it is headlined, how columbia ignored women, undermined prosecutors and protected a predator for more than 20 years. this in an official statement, policy across columbia leaders offered their deepest apologies to all of the victims and their loved ones and said this. central quote, since hadn't last saw patients more than a decade ago, columbia has work to enhance the policies the processes in on place to afford our patients a the >> we think that he, you, know the administrators probably believed him over his patients. >> this is not just -- all this institution, this policy, worked even for those, new york city can you explain how powerful institution columb