‘Disgusting’: Doctor accused of recording women, children on hidden cameras for several years
OAKLAND COUNTY, Mich. (WILX/Gray News) - A doctor in Michigan is accused of recording unsuspecting women and children for at least six years.
The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office said Dr. Oumair Aejaz used hidden cameras to record children as young as 2 years old and women of various ages in locations such as hospital rooms, changing areas, closets and bathrooms.
Detectives also believe he recorded sexual encounters he had with numerous women and hospital patients who were either asleep or unconscious.
Aejaz, who specializes in internal medicine, had privileges at Ascension Genesys Hospital in Grand Blanc Township and Henry Ford Macomb in Clinton Township but was not on staff.
“This is one of the most disturbing sexual predator cases I have seen in my very long career,” Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said. “He violated literally anyone and everyone he could. From a 2-year-old boy to a grown woman, no one was immune from his disgusting predatory behavior.”
Detectives said they took six computers, four cell phones and 15 external storage devices from Aejaz’s home. The sheriff’s office said one device contained more than 13,000 videos Aejaz recorded.
Additionally, some of the recorded videos were from an area swim club.
“Violating children in safe spaces as they change for a fun swim or sexually violating women who are still under sedation from a medical procedure shows his depravity has no limits,” Bouchard said.
Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald said this is more than an invasion of privacy.
“These are children and moms at a swimming school. They were victimized by a person of trust in the community – a medical doctor,” McDonald said. “It robs these moms and kids, and all of us, of a sense of safety we should have when we’re with our kids at a place like that.”
Detectives said it could take six months to complete a forensic examination of all the confiscated materials.
Aejaz is a citizen of India working in the United States on a visa. He came to America around 2011, completed his residency at Detroit Sinai Grace Hospital, and then moved to Dawson, Alabama.
The doctor returned to Oakland County to continue his practice in internal medicine in 2018.
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