Doctor filmed kids, women in hospitals and changing rooms for years, Michigan cops say
An unsuspecting mother took her children into a private changing area at a swim school, and a local doctor sneaked his camera into a nearby stall and filmed them, Michigan prosecutors said.
The wife of the 40-year-old Rochester doctor produced that material to police one year later, and investigators obtained more “alarming images” through a search warrant on Aug. 8, Oakland County Prosecutor Karen D. McDonald said in an Aug. 20 news conference posted by WXYZ.
What officers recovered from six computers, four cell phones and 15 external storage devices went far beyond the swim school, Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said at the news conference.
Photos and videos, some captured with hidden cameras, showed children as young as 2 years old and adults being filmed in changing rooms, bathrooms, hospital rooms, inside closets, bathrooms and bedrooms of residences he had access to, deputies said in an Aug. 20 news release.
Investigators found 13,000 videos on one device, some dating back to 2018, according to the news release.
Dr. Oumair Aejaz, a father of two, is now facing 10 total charges, including child sexually abusive activity, using a computer to create or reproduce child sexually abusive material, capturing/recording children while unclothed, capturing and recording two women while unclothed and using a computer to commit a crime, deputies said.
“This is one of the most disturbing sexual predator cases I have seen in my very long career,” Bouchard said in the release. “From a 2-year-old boy to grown women, no one is immune from his disgusting predatory behavior.”
Aejaz was arrested on Aug. 8 as the search warrant was being executed, deputies said. He is being held on a $2 million bond.
Attorney information for Aejaz was not available.
Beyond the swim school
The doctor’s 10 charges are related to four identified victims and one unidentified victim, McDonald said. Three of the victims were children and two were adults, officials said.
“These allegations stemmed from a mom bringing her young children to a swim school and taking them into a changing room and getting them changed...” McDonald said. “It’s a complete violation, and it’s terrifying as a mother.”
Although Aejaz’s current charges only pertain to incidents occurring at the Rochester swim school in August 2023, Bouchard said, this is just the “tip of the iceberg.”
“Disturbing” videos reviewed by investigators showed the doctor sexually assaulting women who were unconscious or asleep in hospital beds and filming people in private areas such as bathrooms, deputies said. He used both hidden cameras and cameras on his person, according to investigators.
Aejaz was an internal medicine doctor that was contracted by a company to work at multiple hospitals and facilities, giving him access to an unknown number of hospitals, officials said.
Bouchard said it will take six months to get through the videos discovered on the obtained devices, and there may be more explicit content if cloud storage is discovered.
He added that Aejaz’s case could expand beyond the state of Michigan, and even out of the country. The doctor is an Indian citizen and moved to the United States on a work visa in 2011, Bouchard said. He moved to Alabama and then returned to Michigan in 2018, according to the news release.
Bouchard said the investigation will continue and people should contact ocsosiu@oakgov.com with any information or if they believe they are a victim.
Rochester is about a 25-mile drive north of Detroit.
