‘Doctor’ Sentenced For Sexual Assault

District Attorney Richard A. Brown has announced that a Long Island waterproofer who posed as a gynecologist and conducted job interviews for office staff at two Queens motels has been sentenced to six months in jail for sexually assaulting a 20-year-old female job applicant and requesting an undercover police officer posing as a job seeker to strip and submit to a pap smear swab before soliciting her to perform a sexual act on him.
The defendant has been identified as Alan Psaty, 56. He has pleaded guilty to the felony charges of aggravated sexual abuse and unlawful practice of a profession (medicine).
At sentencing, Supreme Court Justice Pauline A. Mullings remanded the defendant to six months in jail (time served) and ten years’ probation under the aggravated sexual abuse plea and a concurrent term of five years’ probation under the unlicensed practice plea. Justice Mullings also indicated that if Psaty violates the terms of his probation within the first five years, he will be sentenced to 2 and 2/3 to 8 years. If a violations occurs after five years, he will be sentenced to 1 and 1/3 to 4 years in state prison.
According to the criminal complaint filed against him in December 2005, the defendant, posing as Dr. Richard Rubin, telephoned a Brooklyn employment agency and requested the agency to provide him with potential employees who were female and immigrants. The agency put him in touch with a 20-year-old Polish immigrant who earlier in the year had paid the agency a $100 fee to assist her in obtaining a job. The defendant requested the woman to meet him for a job interview at the Imperial Hotel in Flushing, on November 14, 2005. During the interview, the defendant sexually assaulted her on the pretext that he was looking for someone to assist with medical examinations.
The complaint further charged that the defendant, on December 13, 2005, met with another female job seeker at the Kew Motor Inn, in Kew Gardens Hills.
Unbeknownst to the defendant, the woman was an undercover police officer posing as a potential employee who said she had received his telephone number from the employment agency.
During the interview, the defendant requested the undercover agent to go into the bathroom and remove her clothes so that he could obtain a pap smear. She left, but met with the defendant again later. He then offered her $25 to masturbate him.