A Denver doctor pleaded guilty to the production of child pornography. Reports show that his victims were young male patients that he recorded during their physical exams. Justin Neisler, 32, was arrested back in March of 2019 but says that his obsession with children goes back nearly 20 years.
In a statement, Jason Dunn, the U.S. attorney for Colorado, called the sentence “wholly appropriate in light of the horrific acts committed by the one person besides a parent that a child is told to trust unquestionably.”
The FBI reported that an investigation was launched after Tumblr employees reported that Neisler posted child pornography on his account on multiple occasions.
Tumblr is an American microblogging and social networking website founded by David Karp in 2007 and currently owned by Automattic. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users’ blogs which makes the platform ideal for pedophiles.
Neisler also admitted to secretly recording some medical exams of minors while serving as a doctor, using a spy camera and an iPhone, prosecutors said.
The videos were not distributed to others, and investigators interviewed the victims “to make certain that no other hands-on offenses occurred,” the U.S. attorney’s office said.
Neisler told authorities that he never touched any of his minor patients inappropriately but did record some of them, according to a plea agreement. He said he had been watching child pornography since he was 11 and had been worried about being arrested for 20 years, according to the document.
Federal prosecutors said that they have been informed that Neisler’s Colorado medical license was suspended and that it would be forfeited after Tuesday’s sentencing hearing, Yahoo News reported.
In addition to the prison sentence, Neisler was ordered to pay $10,100 in what the U.S. attorney’s office described as court assessments and into funds set up to assist victims of child exploitation crimes.
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