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Doctor covertly recorded young boys’ exams to make child porn in Colorado, feds say
A Colorado doctor found with thousands of images and videos of child pornography also made his own by discretely recording young boys during medical examinations, federal prosecutors say.
Dr. Justin Neisler, 32, was sentenced to 23 years in prison for production of child pornography, prosecutors announced Tuesday.
Authorities began investigating the Denver doctor in 2018 after being alerted by social media site Tumblr that a user was sharing child pornography, and provided investigators with Neisler’s IP address, according to an affidavit.
In March 2019, the FBI searched Neisler’s home, and found thousands of images and videos of child pornography, some featuring infants, on his phone, computer and hard drives.
Neisler told investigators he had recorded “two or three” children between 9 and 11 years old during examinations, and that they had been naked at his request, “which he felt was appropriate.”
Neisler would watch the recordings at home and pleasure himself, prosecutors said.
While searching the home, investigators found a Spy Camera Pen belonging to Neisler. Asked if there would be more recordings on the pen, Neisler admitted that he actually recorded “eight to 10” children during exams, according to the affidavit.
One of Neisler’s patients, an 11-year-old, once asked him if he was being recorded. Neisler said no.
Investigators asked the doctor if he inappropriately touched any of the children under his care, and he replied that he only touched their genitals, which was normal in the course of a health checkup. But Neisler “felt excited” when he did so, the affidavit says.
Neisler’s behavior stretches back years, according to the affidavit.
He told FBI investigators he had been “worrying about getting arrested for 20 years,” that in high school he recorded football teammates without their knowledge, and would touch their genitals as they slept.
Sometimes they would wake up, realize what was going on and “their friendship ceased,” he recounted.
Neisler still had video tapes of his teammates at his Denver home, according to the affidavit, and “they were pieces of nostalgia for him.”
After Neisler’s 23-year sentence is over, he will be under supervised release for 10 years, prosecutors said.
“This sentence is wholly appropriate in light of the horrific acts committed by the one person besides a parent that a child is told to trust unquestionably,” U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn said. “Our hope is that the sentence gives his victims and their parents some sense of closure and allows them to move forward with their lives.”
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