Bad, bad doc.
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A pediatric doctor in Boston has been arrested on allegations that he distributed child sexual abuse material.
Federal prosecutors said Friday that 35-year-old Christopher Sheerer, who began a fellowship in cardiac anesthesiology this month at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, was taken into custody after a search at his Boston home Thursday night. He is charged with one count each of distribution of child pornography and possession of child pornography.
Sheerer was previously a fellow at Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore, where the federal investigation began, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for Massachusetts. He told investigators at the time of his arrest he has been in Boston for about three weeks.
Using an encrypted messaging app, Sheerer allegedly joined a group "that required users to upload nude imagery of children known to them." Prosecutors say he did so to gain admission.
He allegedly claimed in the group to be the father of a 5-year-old girl and uploaded nude images of a young girl with a card visible showing the group's name. Investigators determined Sheerer and his ex-wife have a daughter who was born in 2018.
Photos showing Sheerer's previous home in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, are consistent with the bathroom floor seen in the images, investigators said.
A selfie showing Sheerer wearing scrubs and a Johns Hopkins lanyard appeared on a Google account found by investigators in Maryland looking into the group.
Kind of old to be a fellow. Assuming he finished medical school at age 26, and he did a 4 year residency, he'd be done at 30. Give or take a year or two.
Fellowship is after your routine training.
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It’s hard to imagine a path more guaranteed to incinerate every aspect of your life than actively creating child porn. It seems like instant social death. He has forever destroyed all of his professional relationships, his family, and his friends. Maybe his mother doesn’t abandon him. But maybe she does.
