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RAKESH PUNN, BETHPAGE PEDIATRICIAN, ADMITS DRUGGING, SEXUALLY ABUSING PATIENT, DA SAYS
Newsday/Ellen Yan 9/5/14
Rakesh Punn, a 56 year old former Bethpage pediatrician, pleaded guilty Friday to drugging agirl in his office, then sexually abusing her, part of a long investigation that also led to afederal conviction on sexual exploitation. Punn faces 15 years in prison on two counts ofcriminal sale of a prescription for a controlled substance and fist-degree sexual abuse at hisDecember 5 sentencing. He will have to register as a sex offender after his prison term andforfeit $2,113, 994. In his plea he admitted to abusing a patient, 17,