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Judge to decide on Children’s suit

Contends hospital is responsible in alleged abuse cases

By Martine Powers

 |  Globe Staff  

  January 26, 2012

A Suffolk Superior Court judge will decide whether to dismiss a lawsuit against Children’s Hospital Boston, after hearing arguments yesterday on the suit filed on behalf of 11 people who say they were abused by pediatrician Melvin D. Levine in North Carolina. Levine, accused of sexually abusing dozens of children during medical treatments, had been the former chief of ambulatory pediatrics at Children’s Hospital. In 1987, he became a professor of pediatrics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill.

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