Police in Oakland County are charging a doctor with recording naked pictures of women and children. They think there may be many more victims as they look through the thousands of videos they found at his home in Rochester Hills.
Sheriff Michael Bouchard of Oakland County said that the investigation into Dr. Oumair Aejaz is “still in its early stages.” He said that the doctor allegedly used hidden cameras in hospital rooms, changing rooms, bathrooms, and bedrooms to record women and children, as well as recording himself sexually assaulting unconscious hospital patients. Investigators are trying to find people who may have been victims, according to Bouchard. There may be hundreds of victims.
Bouchard said that Aejaz has worked at both Ascension Genesys Hospital in Grand Blanc Township and Henry Ford Hospital Macomb in Clinton Township. Police said he could go to those places, but they said he wasn’t working there.
At a news conference on Tuesday, Bouchard said, “This person could be one of the worst I’ve ever seen because there’s no particular category.” “It’s not just kids. It’s not just women. It’s not just men. From a two-year-old to an adult woman. So, there are so many victims and so much evil that we’re just starting to get a handle on it.
Mariell Lehman, Aejaz’s lawyer, did not answer right away to a request for comment Tuesday.
Aejaz, 40, was charged on August 13 with one count of sexually abusing a child, four counts of taking a picture of someone naked, and five counts of using a computer to commit a crime. At the news conference, Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald said that Aejaz is being held in the Oakland County Jail on a $2 million bond.
Charges were brought after events at Rochester’s Goldfish Swim School, where Aejaz is said to have filmed two adults and two children, ages 2 and 4, in a changing area, McDonald said. She said the charge of sexually abusing a kid involves a child who has not been named and has nothing to do with what happened at swim school.
McDonald said that Aejaz’s wife showed him disturbing materials earlier this month, and the sheriff’s office quickly carried out a search warrant and took away more devices. That the police have “sifted through really jarring, alarming images” and are still doing so.
McDonald said Aejaz also preyed on hospitals and institutions that people trusted, and she said those places have been helpful.
It is expected and known that there are thousands and thousands of pictures and videos that law officials and others will have to work together to figure out who the victims are. All of these are being looked into, McDonald said.
Bouchard said that police have taken six computers, four cellphones, and 15 external hard drives. He said that one of the drives had 13,000 movies that needed to be looked over. He said that going over the things they have already taken could take up to six months.
Bouchard said that the police think the claimed crime goes back at least six years.
“This is, and I can’t stress this enough, so much the tip of the iceberg,” he added.
Bouchard said that Aejaz is an Indian citizen who has been working in the US on a visa since coming here in 2011. The sheriff’s office says that Aejaz did his training at DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital and also spent some time in Alabama. Bouchard said that agents are still looking into other places where Aejaz, an internal medicine specialist, may have worked besides the hospitals in Grand Blanc and Clinton Township.
“Due to the lengthy time that he’s been involved in this activity and the large amounts of storage that we have in our possession, we believe there’s a lot more to be uncovered,” said Bouchard.
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