A
specialist childrens doctor, who was caught with over 50,000 sick
images of youngsters he had collected online for years, has been
locked-up for sixteen months.
Dr.
Ediz Ekrem, 31, of Lordship Lane, Dulwich, was employed within the
paediatric unit of an unnamed south London Hospital.
He
was sentenced at Croydon Crown Court where he was
also handed a ten-year Sexual Harm Protection Order.
Dr.
Ekrem pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent photographs
of children.
On
the October 28, last year police from Operation Bellona, part of the
Met's Paedophile Unit, raided Ekrem's home and seized his laptop and
a hard drive.
When
questioned Ekrem confirmed he had downloaded indecent images of
children, but then deleted them.
He
was found to be in possession of 187 category A images (the most
serious rating), 92 category B images and 51,641 category C images -
a total of 51,851 images.
None
of the images were accessed whilst Ekrem was at work, nor were they
of any of his patients.
The
General Medical Council was informed and immediately withdrew Ekrem's
licence to practice medicine pending the outcome of the police
investigation.
Detective
Constable John Daly, the investigating officer from the Met's Sexual
Offences, Exploitation and Child Abuse Command, said: "An
appropriate sentence has been handed down today.
“Ekrem
is a person who was supposed to be trusted and responsible for
looking after the most ill and vulnerable in society.
“He
has abused that trust by committing this offence. Ekrem was feeding a
market for the most appalling and perverted images for a number of
years.
"The
sharing and making of indecent images of children is an abhorrent
crime and one that the Metropolitan Police Service will continue to
pursue and bring the perpetrators before the courts."
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