An NYPD doctor repeatedly sexually abused a police officer during biweekly visits while telling him, “I think you need to get an erection because you are a man,” according to a lawsuit.

Then-Lt. Wilding Aguasanta began seeing Deputy Chief Surgeon Theobald Reich, who is now 98 and retired, every other week after he fell and was injured on the job in 2018, according to the suit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court Friday.

Aguasanta, 48, who had neck surgery after the fall at an NYPD Viper Unit, where cops monitor public housing cameras, got depressed and was given “mental health medication which prevented him from both consenting or objecting to the sexual abuse,” according to the lawsuit against the doctor and the city. 4

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Reich would “ask him if he knows what this medication does to

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