Suspended doctor charged in rape of 15-year-old boy

BostonGlobe ^ | 9/11/2002 | By Raja Mishra

[krodriguesdc]

CAMBRIDGE - The Boston doctor under fire for abandoning an unconscious surgery patient to go to the bank was arrested yesterday and charged with the alleged rape of a 15-year-old youth he picked up in Central Square.

Police last night held Dr. David C. Arndt, 45, in the station lockup in lieu of $250,000 bail. He was scheduled for arraignment in Cambridge District Court today on three counts of child rape and one count of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14.

[A CA Guy]

So much for "Do no harm"!

[kcvl]

Docket No.: 00-1441F
Parties: STEPHEN M. GOLDFINGER vs. DAVID C. ARNDT
County: SUFFOLK, ss.
MEMORANDUM OF DECISION AND ORDER FOR JUDGMENT

INTRODUCTION
This is an action to confirm an arbitration award, arising from an agreement through which the parties provided for the termination of their “domestic partnership.” The parties have submitted the case on a stipulation of facts. Based on the facts stipulated, having considered the memoranda and oral arguments of counsel, the Court concludes that the plaintiff is entitled to confirmation of the arbitrator’s award.

BACKGROUND
The parties, Stephen Goldfinger and David Arndt, entered into an agreement dated August 15, 1994. The agreement begins: “The following is a recitation of the facts which are in consideration of, and the underlying reasons for, the promises contained in the following Agreement.” The facts recited include that the parties met in 1983 and formed “a domestic partnership which would last until July of 1994.” During that time they “cohabited in various residences,” and “collected a significant

amount of tangible personal property, much of which was paid for by Stephen [Goldfinger].” The agreement recites that Goldfinger is older and was more advanced in his profession, and for that reason he “paid for much of their living, traveling, and entertainment expenses during this time before and while David was preparing for a career in medicine.” The parties “expected that . . . at such time as David’s medical education was complete and David was employed in the field of orthopaedic surgery, that the balance of this arrangement would shift,” and that “Stephen’s long range financial security was predicated on David assuming a parallel burden of financial support.” The agreement goes on to recite that the parties “have mutually agreed to terminate their domestic partnership,” and they have entered into the agreement “in order that the termination of their domestic partnership may be smooth, friendly, and unfettered by disputes over David’s financial arrangements with Stephen and the Parties’ respective ownership of tangible personal property.”

There follow a series of provisions regarding division of tangible personal property, payment of credit card debt, ownership of real estate, payment of support, life insurance, and access to pets. Of most economic significance, it appears, is a provision that David Arndt will pay Stephen Goldfinger a percentage of his income for a period of fifteen years, subject to certain limitations and exceptions.

The agreement provides mechanisms for resolution of any disputes arising under it. First, the parties will engage in mediation with a mediator chosen in a manner provided. If that fails, they will proceed to arbitration “in accordance with the rules of the American Arbitration Association,” the result of which “shall be final and binding.”

In October, 1985, David Arndt, the defendant here, filed an action against Goldfinger in the Probate and Family Court, Suffolk Division, seeking a declaratory judgment “that the agreement is null and void and without legal effect.” Arndt alleged that when he informed Goldfinger of his intent to terminate the relationship, Goldfinger, “an experienced psychiatrist, began to exert significant pressure on [him] to come to ?financial terms,’” taking advantage of “ the fragility of [Arndt’s] mental condition,” which arose from long work days and from depression caused by deaths of loved ones. Arndt further alleged that Goldfinger’s attorney drafted the agreement, that Arndt executed it without counsel and without financial disclosure, and that the “recitation of consideration” set forth in it “is erroneous and fraudulent.” Based on these allegations, Arndt’s complaint alleged that the agreement was “the product of duress and coercion,” “unfair and unreasonable,” and “unconscionable,” that its provisions “violate public policy,” that “[t]here was a failure of consideration,” that it “contains material misrepresentations of fact,” that Goldfinger “is unjustly enriched” by its provisions, and that “there is no statutory authority for such a grant of maintenance or support between two financially- independent, unrelated, and unmarried persons.”

[krodriguesdc]

goldfinger or goldmember :)

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Our Diversity is our strength!

[kcvl]

More here...

David Arndt will pay Stephen Goldfinger a percentage of his income for a period of fifteen years, subject to certain limitations and exceptions.

[lsee]

Woo-hoo, this guy needs to be exterminated.

[kcvl]

Case puts focus on the role of drug firm representatives

By Raja Mishra, Globe Staff, 8/10/2002

When embattled doctor David C. Arndt walked out of a surgical procedure to run to the bank, he was allegedly driven there not by a medical colleague but by a sales representative for a medical device company who was visiting his operating room.

[FryingPan101]

Another potential Boy Scout leader. Pass his name on to the United Way for their blessing.

[11th Earl of Mar]

Sheesh! How would you like to be one of the patients that this doctor operated on? Would you like his hands inside your body?

This guy is an AIDS case waiting to happen.

[gunnedah]

Better be careful they may try you for a hate crime!

[Dante3]

I'm sure only a very small percentage of doctors are this demented. But seems there is a growing number of stories about them such as the cross-dressing plastic surgeon who murdered his wife, the NY doctor who carved his initials into a patient, Dr. Greinider who murdered his wife in weir, convoluted plot.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Notice how the Boston Globe artfully avoids identifying the sex of Arndt's "domestic partner":

"In October 2000, a Suffolk County judge ordered Arndt to turn over 9 percent of his income for the next 15 years to a former domestic partner who bankrolled Arndt's medical schooling in exchange for future financial support, according to court records. Arndt unsuccessfully protested the order, contending that his partner, a psychiatrist, emotionally manipulated him into signing the agreement."

[Lance Romance]

Wait. I thought everyone was telling us the pedophile's who molest little boys aren't homosexual. I guess they must have been mistaken.

[Pearls Before Swine]

CAMBRIDGE - The Boston doctor under fire for abandoning an unconscious surgery patient to go to the bank was arrested yesterday and charged with the alleged rape of a 15-year-old youth he picked up in Central Square.

Did he do this while on timeout during an operation, also?

[Dante3]

Does this mean Dr. Arndt had salesmen visit him while he was performing an operation? In any case, judging from his previous acts, he was a one-man crime wave.

[Living Free in NH]

Sheesh! How would you like to be one of the patients that this doctor operated on? Would you like his hands inside your body?

no comment...

[dd5339]

Yea, this guy was a real winner of a person. Looks like he needs to go away for quite awhile. Maybe in prison he can find the type of "relationship" that he's looking for.

Semper Fi