Placer County doctor sentenced for distributing child sexual abuse images online
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- A federal judge sentenced a Placer County doctor for distributing child pornography.
- FBI agents found more than 600 child sexual abuse images.
- The doctor who lived in Roseville had a medical practice in Sacramento County.
A federal judge on Friday sentenced a Placer County doctor found with hundreds of child sexual abuse images after an investigation into suspects believed to be trading illicit files online.
U.S. District Judge Dena M. Coggins sentenced Khursheed Haider, 50, of Roseville to nine years in prison for distributing child sexual abuse material, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Sacramento.
U.S. Attorney Eric Grant said Haider, a Carmichael pulmonologist,, is being held accountable for his proliferation of child sexual abuse material. Grant said each instance of this material “retraumatizes” the victims shown in the images.
“My office is committed to investigating and prosecuting individuals who traffic in this abusive material, including those in positions of trust like Haider,” Grant said in the news release.
On June 18, the Medical Board of California revoked Haider’s medical license.
The federal investigation began in Honolulu. Suspects were believed to be trading files online that contained child sexual abuse materials, according to previous reporting by The Sacramento Bee.
After the arrest of a suspect in Hawaii, FBI agents there assumed that suspect’s online identity and began focusing on a user posting materials that included children subjected to bondage, domination, sadism and masochism, according to a filed FBI affidavit.
That user was posting under the online name “kingg,” the affidavit says. FBI agents linked ‘kingg’ to an IP address assigned to the internet connection at Haider’s home in Roseville. When agents took Haider into custody on Nov. 20, 2023, the investigators found on Haider’s phone a screenshot of a Google account with the screen name “king kingg.”
In the news release, federal prosecutors said Haider used an online application called Wire to post, distribute, and request videos and images of prepubescent boys and girls being sexually abused.
The FBI agents then served a search warrant and discovered more than 600 images and videos of prepubescent child sexual abuse material on Haider’s electronic devices, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
“Khursheed Haider was known to many as a trusted physician and family man,” FBI Sacramento Special Agent in Charge Sid Patel said in the news release. “However, he was a predator behind that facade who actively shared material depicting the horrific sexual abuse of infants and toddlers.”
