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A Rochester Hills doctor has been arrested on multiple felony charges for recording nude images of unsuspecting children and women for at least the past six years. The 40-year-old internal medicine specialist from Rochester Hills in Michigan allegedly used hidden cameras to capture footage in hospital rooms, changing areas, closets, bathrooms, bedrooms, and even a local swim club.
Dr. Oumair Aejaz, 40, who specializes in internal medicine, is accused of using hidden cameras to record children as young as age 2 and women of various ages in hospital rooms, changing areas, as well as inside closets, bathrooms, and bedrooms he could access and at an area swim club.
Aejaz was arraigned on Aug. 13 and has been charged with 10 counts:
- One count of child sexually abusive activity.
- One count of using a computer to create and or reproduce child sexually abusive material.
- Two counts of capturing/recording children under the age of 18 while nude.
- Two counts of capturing/recording two women over the age of 18 while nude.
- Four counts of using a computer to commit a crime.
He is on the staff at Ascension Genesys Hospital in Grand Blanc Township and Henry Ford Macomb in Clinton Township. Detectives believe Aejaz recorded sexual encounters he had with numerous women, with hospital patients who were either asleep or unconscious, and recorded relatives in the bathroom or while changing clothes.
Aejaz is a citizen of India who has been working in the United States on a visa. He came to the US around 2011, completed his residency at Detroit Sinai Grace Hospital, and then moved to Dawson, Ala. Aejaz returned to Oakland County to continue his practice in internal medicine in 2018.
“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 violates literally anyone and everyone he can. From a 2-year-old boy to a grown woman, no one is immune from his disgusting predatory behavior. 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. At the end of this case, it is my fervent hope he is held fully accountable behind bars.”
Oakland County Prosecutor Karen D. McDonald said her office will use every resource available to pursue the charges. “These are children and moms at a swim school,” McDonald said. “They’re there to teach their kids to swim. Because that brings their kids joy and they want their kids to be safe around water. They were victimized by a person of trust in the community – a medical doctor. It’s more than an invasion of privacy. 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.”
Sheriff’s detectives received a tip about Aejaz on Aug. 7 and began to assemble a case against him. He was arrested the following day at his home as detectives were executing a search warrant. Bouchard said detectives confiscated six computers, four cell phones, and 15 external storage devices from Aejaz’s home. One device contained more than 13,000 videos Aejaz recorded during the past six years. Detectives estimated it would take six months to complete a forensic examination of all the confiscated materials.
Bouchard said he expected the geographic scope of the investigation to increase beyond Genesee and Macomb counties, where the hospitals are located and may include other states or countries, depending on where Aejaz worked. He encouraged anyone who believed they were a victim of Aejaz to contact sheriff’s detectives at OCSOSIU@oakgov.com.
