Child Porn Trial in Atlanta: Sex Tourism charges dropped

A Gainesville anesthesiologist who vehemently proclaimed his innocence in jailhouse interviews went on trial this Monday in U.S. District Court in Atlanta on child pornography charges. In April 2004, his arrest at New York’s JFK airport was heralded by federal prosecutors as a major case in the battle against so-called “sex tourism.” He was indicted under a new law that allowed U.S. citizens to be prosecuted for sex crimes against children committed in other countries. Prosecutors believed the anesthesiologist traveled to St. Petersburg, Russia, and Prague, Czech Republic, to have sex with young boys.But the government through a series of revised indictments dropped the sex tourism and molestation charges, replacing them with child pornography charges.Read the full story in Gainesville Times here.

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