{"id":376955,"date":"2026-08-20T22:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T22:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/376955\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T22:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T22:26:07","slug":"urologist-accused-of-sexually-battering-medical-students-while-working-for-um","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/376955\/","title":{"rendered":"Urologist accused of sexually battering medical students while working for UM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newswise.com\/articles\/ranjith-ramasamy-m-d-of-desai-sethi-urology-institute-receives-american-urological-association-s-gold-cystoscope-award\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.newswise.com\/articles\/ranjith-ramasamy-m-d-of-desai-sethi-urology-institute-receives-american-urological-association-s-gold-cystoscope-award\">award-winning urologist<\/a> who was once a professor at the University of Miami \u2015 and who later went to work in Dubai \u2015 is now back in South Florida to answer to allegations that he sexually battered multiple medical students during his time at UM.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/08\/20\/acusan-a-urologo-de-agredir-sexualmente-a-estudiantes-de-medicina-mientras-trabajaba-para-um\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/08\/20\/acusan-a-urologo-de-agredir-sexualmente-a-estudiantes-de-medicina-mientras-trabajaba-para-um\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami police said Dr. Ranjith Ramasamy, 45, once the university\u2019s director of male reproductive medicine and surgery, did so under the guise of performing invasive and sometimes painful medical examinations that an outside expert later determined were unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In an arrest warrant, Miami Police Department Detective Louis Joseph wrote that there were \u201csix victims,\u201d three of whom whose allegations form the basis for Ramasamy\u2019s three sexual battery charges. They stem from his tenure of nearly a decade at UM, which ended in 2024. All of the identified victims were men.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the warrant, Ramasamy sought semen samples from the students \u2015 some of which were done under the initial pretense of research \u2015 and subjected them to unneeded testicular, penis and rectal examinations, including \u201cprostate massages,\u201d after claiming that the samples showed abnormalities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ramasamy even used a \u201cfalse STD test\u201d with one victim \u201cto justify further interventions that were not medically necessary,\u201d Joseph wrote, saying that Ramasamy subjected the man to \u201cserial examinations of the genitals and prostate every week\u201d without any medical reason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ramasamy, who formerly lived in Pinecrest and whose current listed address is in rural Sarasota County, returned to South Florida from Dubai to voluntarily self-surrender, according to court proceedings on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Records show he was arrested at Miami International Airport at around 10:45 a.m. Thursday by deputies with the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In court on Thursday, he was ordered held on a $120,000 bond, to be on house arrest with a GPS monitor and to have no contact with his accusers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News has contacted UM seeking comment.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI \u2014 An award-winning urologist who was once a professor at the University of Miami \u2015 and who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-376955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}