A Brooklyn doctor who is out on $750,000 bond while awaiting trial on charges including manslaughter, assault and reckless endangerment is still practicing medicine.
Dr. Vignendra Ariyarajah, 45, is still visiting clinics, treating patients and even prescribing medicine, one month after he was indicted on charges related to the death of his mistress’ newborn baby.
Court documents filed in the Supreme Court of New York, Kings County, allege that the married doctor had two people kidnap his mistress and then hold her captive for four days while using PCP and Fentanyl to induce early labor.
The victim, Paul Marie Raymond, eventually gave birth after four days, but the child died shortly after due to an infection caused by the lengthy labor.
Ariyarajah was away on a ski trip at the time with his wife, but directed what Raymond was to be fed and how drugs and pills should be administered to her via text message according to the indictment.
The doctor – who attended medical school at the University of Alberta but bills himself as a Harvard-trained cardiologist – allegedly carried out this plot because Raymond was pregnant with another man’s baby.
Court: Dr. Vignendra Ariyarajah (above in court on Tuesday) is still visiting clinics, treating patients and even prescribing medicine, one month after his indictment
Hippocratic oath: The married doctor (above with the victim) allegedly had two people kidnap his mistress and then hold her captive for four days while using PCP and Fentanyl to induce early labor
Clean bill: In addition to being able to treat patients, there have been no complaints filed about the cardiologist according to the New York Board of Health’s website(above)
Ariyarajah was first indicted earlier this year, and in the wake of a new superseding indictment will stand trial for 13 counts ranging from manslaughter and criminal sale and diversion of a controlled substance to endangering the welfare of a child and assault.
As a result, his bail was set at $750,000 after a court appearance in February.
Once he was able to get that money, Ariyarajah was released, but not before being fitted with an electronic monitoring bracelet.
Since that time, Ariyarajah has continued to practice medicine, and a call to his Brooklyn office on Tuesday revealed that the facility is still very much open for business.
He is not the only person who has been charged either, with one of the individuals who was holding Raymond captive those four days also being hit with a four-count indictment.
It was one of those two individuals who helped investigators build their case by revealing what happened over the four days that Raymond was being held in that Brooklyn apartment.
The complaint in the case was not submitted until two years after the incident, which may explain why there have been no repercussions for Ariyarajah.
However, one day after the he appeared in court on Tuesday, a search of state databases showed that he was still approved to practice and that no disciplinary actions had been filed against him at this time.
His card is still on full display at his own clinic as well, despite the gruesome details of the case that were shared in court documents.
Booming: Dr Ariyarajah was away on a ski trip at the time with his wife, but allegedly said what Raymond was to be fed and how drugs and pills should be administered (the doctor’s Brooklyn office)
Crime scene: He was indicted in February and released on $750,000 bond while being ordered to wear a ankle monitor at all times (the building where the victim gave birth)
Two days into her captivity, a pregnant Raymond was ‘vomiting blood and semi-conscious.’
Raymond also had ‘ligature marks to her hands and arms and torn off fingernails,’ states the complaint, which also noted what look to be ‘chemical burns to her face.’
Things were so bad that there was concern that Raymond night not make it through as she battled her way back from infection, sepsis and dehydration.
She had been 30-weeks pregnant at the time, and there is a chance that the baby might have been saved if the EMTs who arrived on the scene had been allowed to enter the apartment and not blocked by one of the individuals holding Raymond.
The young woman previously tried to save her baby’s life by fleeing the apartment the night before, but one of her alleged captors manage to track her down.