Posted on 06/10/2015 12:34:31 PM PDT by tuffydoodle
HOUSTON – A pediatric oncologist with M.D. Anderson has been arrested on child porn charges, according to the FBI.
Dr. Dennis Hughes was arrested at his Pearland home last Friday, June 5 and charged with possession of child pornography. He was scheduled to appear in a Galveston federal court Wednesday afternoon.
Hughes admitted to investigators that he had downloaded and viewed child porn, according to court documents.
One thumb drive contained about 8,200 files,"the majority of which appeared to be child pornography," the court documents said.
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Not the kind of guy you want as a pediatric oncologist.
Pedophiles often gravitate to jobs where they interact with kids.
What a shame, this is one of THE BEST cancer centers in the country, nay, the world.
Too bad they couldn’t sentence him to service, say at a VA, ‘cuz he has skills highly valuable to society.
I know this would mean treating him different than other people who have done these things, but this is a case that could be argued is worth it.
There are still good pediatric oncologists there. This guy doesn’t need to be moved, he needs to die or at the very least, life incarceration. He had thousands of child porn pics on his computer, some with children in violent sex acts: blindfolded while be assaulted, etc. From what I understand, he’s also married and has 3 kids.
How is that possible? There is no link at the source...or anywhere else I can see. How did you obtain one?
I usually read the court papers. But I won’t for this one.
Not the only one, or likely the first in the field or at this facility. Pediatric Oncologist Christopher Pelloski was sentenced in July 2014 for possession of child pornography. He was the director of the Pediatric Oncology Department at Ohio State University, beginning in 2010. Prior to that, he worked at M. D. Anderson. Federal prosecutors found that his activities with child pornography go back as far as 6 years from the beginning of their investigation in October of 2012.
Easily Google-able.
Thanks.
We can train another doctor.
I wouldn’t want to be worked on by doctor found guilty of child porn, would you?
I was at MD Anderson yesterday and wondered what was going on while walking from the Mays Clinic to the Main Building. Thought it had something to do with MD Anderson’s annual fundraising campaign.
If he’s a top notch doctor, as must be the case as he was at MD Anderson, and I’m not a kid, why not? If I’m staring death in the face, bring him on.
Yeah, we can train a another doctor, only takes ten years or so. This one is already trained, and a lot of people can die of cancer in ten years.
Besides, imagine the money saved if he’s working for society, instead of paying for prison.
Unless he’s done more than just look at pictures, then I would not support the idea.
I just don’t know that we’re so hard up for doctors that pedophiles need to be employed putting their hands on anyone else for the rest of their life.
OK. And I don’t see why we throw away hundreds of thousands of dollars we have invested, and pay hundreds of thousands instead, for someone who looked at pictures, as disgusting as they are.
I would remove him from contact with children. And, as I said, if it is found he went further than looking at pictures, that’s a much different situation.
But we can disagree, and I hope you have a good day.
I think after all the other tests are passed, people going into pediatric medicine or nursing should have to take that penile test where they measure its reaction to photos of kids innocently frolicking in bathing suits.
I’m not joking. This is sick.
Owning child sex photos is HARMING CHILDREN. How dare you excuse these people?
You’ll note that I would have him sentenced to service, not excused.
If instead of working in a prison he had to work at a VA helping cancer patients, society gets some use out of him. How is that different from working making license plates or whatever, other than it’s more useful? Geez.
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