A person who labored as a cardiac anesthesiologist at Boston Kids’s Hospital on the time of his arrest has pleaded responsible to possessing and distributing little one pornography.
“I love an uncircumcised guy. And young boys too,” Dr. Christopher Sheerer, 37, of Boston, wrote in a July 2023 e-mail from an account related to a recognized little one pornography chat group for “dads, uncles, and babysitters” to share little one sexual abuse materials, based on a legislation enforcement affidavit.
Sheerer on Thursday pleaded responsible to at least one depend every of distribution of kid pornography, possession of kid pornography, and sexual exploitation of youngsters. He faces a minimal of 5 years and as much as 20 years in jail with as much as a lifetime of supervised launch. U.S. District Courtroom Choose Denise J. Casper scheduled sentencing for Dec. 18 at 10:30 a.m. in federal court docket in Boston’s Seaport.
To turn into a member of the chat group, federal prosecutors say, a potential member should share a photograph of a unadorned little one together with a card stating the identify of the group. Sheerer adopted instructions and shared no less than one picture of a lady he’s aware of who appeared to investigators to be 5 years outdated.
On the time of becoming a member of the group, Sheerer — a divorced father of a younger woman — was a fellow in pediatric anesthesiology at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. The investigation was begun by Homeland Safety Investigations’ Baltimore area workplace, based on an affidavit.
The early-career physician was residing in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on the time of the preliminary investigation. However the member of a chat group marketed as for these eager about “boys under 18, all types. Toddlers, Hardcore, Rape, Cry. No zoo/blood” moved to Boston to start out a brand new fellowship at Boston Kids’s Hospital beginning in July 2024.
He was within the pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist fellowship for about three weeks when legislation enforcement met him on the entrance door of his residence and served him a warrant on July 18, 2024. The feds charged him in federal court docket in Boston the following day. His case was transferring towards trial when on Thursday the feds dropped a superseding indictment charging him with extra and he pleaded responsible.
