(WWJ) — Potential victims of an Oakland County doctor accused of multiple sex crimes, including secretly recording nude adults and children, are already coming forward.
Authorities on Tuesday announced Oumair Aejaz of Rochester Hills is facing 10 charges , including child sexually abusive activity, stemming from years of alleged abuse and secret recording. Victims range in age from as young as two years old to grown adults, according to the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office.
Sheriff Mike Bouchard said earlier this week investigators had seized six computers, four cell phones and more than a dozen external storage devices. One of those devices alone had more than 13,000 videos Aejaz allegedly recorded over the past six years.
Officials said Tuesday that detectives estimate it will take them about six months to complete a forensic examination of all the confiscated materials.
While the investigation is in its very early stages, due to the large amount of evidence, Bouchard and Prosecutor Karen McDonald are asking anyone who believes they may be a victim of Aejaz to come forward.
A spokesman with the sheriff’s office on Thursday told WWJ as of Wednesday, the department had already received 125 tips.
If anyone is wondering whether they may have been a victim, the sheriff’s office is asking them to send a headshot and include a name and age for possible comparison to evidence as investigators go through “extensive digital evidence.”
Any tipsters can email the photos and that information to OCSOSIU@oakgov.com.
No other new developments in the case were released Thursday.
Bouchard said some of the alleged recording took place at the Goldfish Swim Club in Rochester Hills, as well as in hospital rooms, changing areas and inside closets, bathrooms and bedrooms that he had access to.
In addition to the secret filming of nude children and adults, detectives believe Aejaz recorded sexual encounters he had with numerous women, as well as with hospital patients who were either asleep or unconscious.
The sheriff’s office also alleges that Aejaz recorded relatives in the bathroom or while changing clothes.
"It goes beyond just capturing video. There is physical, assaultive, criminal conduct," Bouchard said. "A woman is unconscious in her hospital bed, and he's violating her. A 2-year-old is thinking they're out for a great swim day and they're being captured naked. There's nobody who is out of bounds for this sick, sick man."
In total, Aejaz is facing the following 10 charges:
• One count of child sexually abusive activity
• One count of using a computer to created and or reproduce child sexually abusive material
• Two counts of capturing/recording children under the age of 18 while nude
• Two counts of capturing/recording two women over the age of 18 while nude
• Four counts of using a computer to commit a crime
More charges could be forthcoming as investigators continue to sift through the loads of evidence.
He is being held on $2 million bond at the Oakland County Jail and McDonald believes that’s where he’ll stay.
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