A 40-year-old doctor in Michigan, Oumair Aejaz was arrested in the US after being charged with numerous sex crimes. including recording thousands of nude images of women and children over the past six years. He was arrested on August 8 at his home in Rochester Hills, north of Detroit on a $2-million bond. According to media reports, the police, during their investigation, discovered over 13,000 videos on a single hard drive and seized 15 external devices.
The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office was quoted as saying that 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.
One of the most disgusting, potentially prolific and disturbing sexual predator cases Sheriff Bouchard has ever seen in his career. There are thousands of investigative hours ahead, but we will do everything to hold this individual to full account. pic.twitter.com/p0znLQIsPQ
— Oakland County Sheriff’s Office (@oaklandsheriff) August 20, 2024
Not only that, but investigators believe he recorded sexual encounters with numerous women and hospital patients, who were either asleep or in an unconscious state.
“This is one of the most disturbing sexual predator cases I have seen in my very long career,” said Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard in a news release.
“He violates literally anyone and everyone he can. From a two-year-old boy to grown women, no one is immune from his disgusting predatory behaviour. 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.
Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard added that the magnitude of Aejaz’s offences is so vast that it could take months to fully investigate the extent of his crimes.
“The victimisation is so broad and the perversion so great, we’re just beginning to wrap our arms around it,” Bouchard said.
“At the end of this case, it is my fervent hope he is held fully accountable behind bars,” he added.
The case came to the fore after Aejaz’s wife sent material evidence to law enforcement prompting the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office to execute several search warrants at his Rochester Hills home in Michigan.
The investigating officers have found six computers, four cell phones and 15 external storage devices in the accused’s home. One device had over 13,000 videos police said the man recorded in the last six years. It’s thought that it will take officials six months to complete a forensic examination of all the confiscated materials.
Aejaz, an Indian citizen, has been employed in the US on a visa. He came to the country around 2011 and completed his residency at Detroit Sinai Grace Hospital before to relocating to Dawson, Alabama. In 2018, he went back to Oakland County to resume his practice.
