Former gynecologist Azzam Ahmed, who was originally sentenced to 45 years in prison in 2004 received a much reduced sentence from the same judge on Tuesday. He was originally sentenced by Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold for sexually assaulting dozens of his patients. He said that he had suffered very much, and that he was a broken man now. He wanted the mercy of the community and of the judge, as well as the victims. He told the court that he felt guilty from the bottom of his heart.
The judge ordered the 65 year old jailed for 11 years, a fraction of the original sentence. He also told the court that he was a reformed man and that he put himself at the mercy of the court. An appeals court ruled that there was inadequate basis for the 45 year long sentence. It was after this that he won the right to a re-sentencing in the first place.
Assistant County Prosecutor James Gutierrez said that he wanted to bring it back to what the case was about in the beginning: the victims. He referred to Ahmed as a man who had been molesting his patients for 3 decades. Ahmed was convicted on 20 of the 53 charges he faced by a jury in 2004. This included 2 counts of rape as well.
A total of 34 women came forward with testimony when his trial was going on. They said they were sexually assaulted by him, and the dates spanned a 25 year period. One of his victims, known during the court case as ‘Jane Doe 33’, said to Fox 8 News that she was shocked, disgusted and appalled. She said she didn’t believe Ahmed was sorry and that she didn’t understand why the judge had reduced the sentence. She claims she is afraid of him and even fears for her life.
Ahmed’s legal team appealed to Saffold in May 2006 for a shorter sentence. The appeal was denied that time. According to Saffold’s current ruling, Ahmed will be released from jail in under three years, with time already served.
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In 1996 I TRIED TO START THIS!! He molested me as a 15-16 yr old pregnant girl. NOBODY BELIEVED ME I CALLED LAWYERS POLICE N NOBODY DID SHIT!!! My mom liked him he delivered my lil sister n saved both of THIER lives n even she didn’t believe me n I was forced to see this perverted horrible disgusting “thing”!! He wanted to give me a hysterectomy at 17!! When I had just a lil tumor on my Fallopian tube. I wish to god I could have known and been apart of that BC I just wanted to look him in his pathetic face and tell everyone what he did to me!!! Whoever lets this man out of jail is horrible & heartless!! Who cares about him he isn’t sorry!! He’s a nasty waste of space on this earth!! He hacked up my stomach at a young age and I have had SEVERE SELF ESTEEM ISSUES BC OF IT WHAT ABOUT THAT I HAVE HAD TO LIVE MUTILATED BY THIS MONSTER Even drs that HAVE SEEN MY BELLY ASK WHO BUTCHERED ME. I used to cry so much about what he’s done to me and scared me for life!! But ya let him go cuz of what THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO WAY!!! HE DESERVES NOTHING LESS THEN THE FULL SENTENCE HE WAS GIVEN AND EVEN THATS NOT ENOUGH TO COMPARE TO WHAT HES DONE TO SO MANY WOMEN!!! He needs to burn in HELL!!!
My heart goes out to you Alicia and all of his other countless victims. Dr. Ahmed was my wife’s OBGYN and delivered my children back in the 1980’s. He was totally unprofessional, all of his jokes were crude or off color and it was obvious that he was deliberately trying to embarass her. On her first office visit he told her “spread your legs apart like you did when you made the baby “. He would routinely kiss her in the exam room and did so in front of me on two occasions. Once at his office and then again at the hospital were he kissed her and the other female patient in her room. He acted like this was his way of making it with the women. What was really bizarre was he was doing this right in front of me. He’s so twisted and egotistical that he must have thought I was suppossed to enjoy watching him defile my wife’s body. There was never a nurse in the room at his office and I always wondered what happened when I wasn’t there. This whole thing caused a problem between me and my wife. It hurt me deeply that she would let this pig put his filthy hands on her. I don’t know how he got away with this for so long. When I would try to talk to the nurses about him they were always quick to defend him. He had no business being a doctor in the first place. Thank God these women had the courage to come forward and put an end to this sick game of his.
When I was 19 I went to him for surgery for endometriosis. During visits in his office he made me feel uncomfortable. Rubbing my inner thighs while I was in stirrups. I thought about calling medical board to complain, but I knew they wouldn’t believe a 19 year old girl. I was not surprised when I saw him on the news.
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I used to be a Muslim and I would see this guy at the Parma masjid doing lessons on Sundays and being a very prominent figure there. Now, we are in a post #metoo era, and if he were to be tried at this time, there’s no way he would have got a reduced sentence. Anybody in the Muslim community who says “oh he’s a just a bad apple” then you are propagating the same biased and prejudiced rhetoric against victims just like people of color that have suffered at the hands of police brutality. It is now 2020, and you can see that there is a much deeper problem here. Just like the Catholic Church, Boy Scouts of America, the military, and Hollywood, we also have a problem within any patriarchal community, the Muslim community, that devalues human life for the sake of tradition, culture and other erroneous pillars of wisdom that have let this go on far too long.