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« on: September 15, 2012, 05:11:09 AM »

http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20220913childrens_hospital_doc_arrested_on_child_porn_charge
Children’s Hospital doc arrested on child porn charge
September 13, 2012

A pediatric endocrinologist was charged today in federal court with receipt of child pornography, the U.S. Attorney’s office is reporting.

Dr. Richard J. Keller, 56, of Andover, was arrested and charged today with receipt of child pornography.

Prosecutors said Keller bought or ordered more than 50 DVDs of child pornography online. An ongoing search of his home in Andover has turned up more than 500 high-gloss photographs and between 60 and 100 DVDs of child pornography, authorities said.

Keller is a pediatric endocrinologist at Boston Children’s Hospital and a pediatrics instructor at Harvard Medical School, according to U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz’s office. He was also medical director at Phillips Academy for 19 years before he stepped down last year.
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According to a postal inspector’s affidavit, the case began with an investigation two years ago of an unidentified overseas movie production company that offered streaming video and DVDs of films featuring nude young boys engaged in food fights, showering, wrestling in bed and playing Twister. A review of records of sales in the company’s database led to Keller, the affidavit stated. The inspector said films were delivered to his home, a post office box and to a medical office at Phillips Academy. Some of those DVDs were recovered in the search of his home today, the postal inspector said.

In federal court today, Judge Jennifer Boal ordered Keller, who pleaded not guilty to the charges, held until a Monday detention hearing.

Prosecutor Michael Yoon said the government plans to show that Keller“appeared to have a dedicated sexual interest in children, going back several decades. Based on those factors, we do believe the defendant is a danger to the community.”
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If convicted, Keller faces a mandatory minimum of five years and up to 20 years in prison, lifetime parole and a $250,000 fine.
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« Reply #1 on: September 15, 2012, 05:15:46 AM »

http://bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/2012/09/14/richard-keller-was-reprimanded-for-viewing-adult-porn-phillips-academy-computer-head-school-says/q6qr0nAMM6MitkpNfur6pM/story.html
Children’s Hospital doctor had previous reprimand for viewing adult porn
Ex-Phillips Academy medical director disciplined in ’99 for viewing adult porn

September 15, 2012

Dr. Richard Keller, the former medical director of Phillips Academy in Andover who was arrested Thursday on charges of receiving child pornography, had been disciplined several times by the school, including once for viewing adult pornography on a school computer, head of school John Palfrey said Friday in a note to the academy community.

Keller was disciplined for the 1999 episode, Palfrey said, and three years later he was reprimanded again for showing students an “inappropriate cartoon.”

Authorities arrested Keller, 56, at his Andover home after tracing his name, e-mail, and billing ­address from the customer database of a foreign company that sold pornographic movies depicting ­minors, investigators said. When they searched Keller’s home Thursday morning, they found at least 60 DVDs of child pornography and 500 sexually explicit photos involving minors, according to statements from the US attorney’s office.
Spokeswoman Christina DiIorio-­Sterling said Friday that ­detectives are trying to determine the origin of those photos and whether they were produced by Keller or a third party.
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According to school financial records filed with the state, Keller received $210,310 in salary and benefits for the fiscal year that ended in June 2011. He also received housing from the school that year.

After leaving Phillips Academy, Keller continued to work as a part-time clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School and a pediatric endocrinologist at Boston Children’s Hospital. He has been placed on leave from both roles.

Keller was affiliated with Boston Children’s between 1985 and 1992, first as a fellow and researcher in endocrinology and then as a full-time assistant in medicine, hospital spokesman Robert Graham said in an e-mail Friday. ­Between 2006 and 2011, Keller held one half-day clinic for the hospital each month.

In November 2011, Keller was hired half time to hold four clinic sessions per week, mostly at the hospital’s satellite sites, Graham said. The hospital gave him a $50,000 interest-free housing loan as an incentive to make that commitment.

Keller moved with a Phillips Academy teacher and their ­infant son to a home near the school’s campus late last year.
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Phillips Academy has e-mailed all alumni and current students, urging them to contact investigators if they have any pertinent information. ­Graham would not say whether the hospital plans to contact Keller’s past patients who don’t have pending appointments.
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« Reply #2 on: September 15, 2012, 12:55:59 PM »

Pediatric endocrinologists have to feel the private area of young boys who have precocious puberty (early onset puberty) and measure the penis of these prepubescent boys at each visit to watch for growth patterns.  Can you imagine being the parents of one of these boys?

He essentially molested numerous patient's under a parent's watchful eye because of his pedophiliac desires.



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« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2012, 10:52:36 AM »

Even at 20 years, liftetime probation and a fine -- it's just not enough for the harm he has done.
What the parents must be going through . . .
 
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« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2012, 02:26:50 PM »

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2012/09/16/pediatrician-arrested-child-porn-charges-also-worked-summer-camps/n4WLPCpEk7f8QxUrAKz7lO/story.html
Pediatrician arrested on child porn charges also worked at summer camps
September 17, 2012

A Massachusetts pediatrician who was arrested last week on charges of receiving child pornography was involved for nearly three decades with Camp Joslin in Charlton, a beloved camp for boys with diabetes, and served at a summer camp in the Berkshires. Leaders of one camp planned to publish statements online in an effort to alert parents to the investigation.
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« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2012, 02:29:44 PM »

This guy is on probation for arson?!!


http://www.wiscnews.com/bdc/news/local/article_9aa2929e-0152-11e2-9097-0019bb2963f4.html
Man faces 125 years for possession of child porn
September 18, 2012

JUNEAU – A 42-year-old former Neosho man made his initial appearance Monday on charges of possession of child pornography, after a 2008 investigation that included Dodge County Sheriff’s Department, the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency.

Richard L. Keller, West Bend, was charged with five counts of possession of child pornography. If convicted, he faces up to 125 years in prison.

According to the criminal complaint, Dodge County detectives were contacted by ICE because Keller, formerly a resident of Kalamazoo, Mich., was living in Neosho. ICE had information that Keller had been involved in purchasing online memberships from known child pornography websites.

The complaint states that simultaneous search warrants were executed on Keller’s residences in Neosho and in Kalamazoo. Among the seized items were CDs, zip disks, mini-video recorder tapes, computer towers and a laptop.

According to the complaint, in September of 2009, Keller had charges pending in Michigan and the decision was made to wait to file charges until the case in Michigan was decided.
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Keller is on probation for arson in Michigan until November of 2014
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« Reply #6 on: September 18, 2012, 02:33:27 PM »

This guy held these positions but according to the article I posted above, he's is on probation for arson until 2014?!  Really?!  I'd like to know more about the details that!   

http://www.eagletribune.com/local/x1709879834/Andover-pediatrician-to-face-judge-tomorrow
UPDATE: Andover pediatrician to face judge Friday
September 18, 2012

 ANDOVER — A detention hearing for Dr. Richard Keller, the Andover pediatrician facing federal child pornography charges, scheduled for yesterday and re-scheduled for tomorrow has been further postponed - to Friday.

Keller’s public defender Page Kelley filed a motion on Friday to reschedule the court appearance to another date. In the meantime, Keller has hired attorneys Max Stern and Patricia Garin of Boston-based Stern, Shapiro, Weissberg & Garin, LLC, to defend him.

Keller, 56, who was working as a pediatric endocrinologist at Boston Children’s Hospital and a pediatrics instructor at Harvard Medical School, was arrested at his Cyr Circle home last week and charged with receipt of child pornography.

Keller is on administrative leave from Children’s Hospital. Previously, he worked as the medical director at Phillips Academy for 19 years before stepping down in 2011.
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« Reply #7 on: September 18, 2012, 02:39:33 PM »

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1061161247&srvc=rss
Accused doctor hires top city defense attorney
September 18, 2012

A Children’s Hospital Boston pediatrician federally charged with amassing a collection of kiddie porn has been granted yet another postponement of his detention and probable cause hearing while hoping one of the city’s top defense lawyers will be able to cure his legal woes.

Dr. Richard J. Keller, 56, of Andover, held without bail since his arrest Thursday, has retained attorney Max D. Stern to represent him.

Stern’s first success on Keller’s behalf was to persuade U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Jennifer C. Boal to this morning put off the proceeding to argue for pre-trial release from tomorrow until Friday. It was originally planned for yesterday.
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Keller has already pleaded not guilty to possession of child pornography. U.S. Postal inspectors claim they found 50 DVDs and 500 printed images of naked underage boys at his home.
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Children’s Hospital has placed Keller on leave. The state Board of Registration in Medicine could vote whether to revoke his license when it meets tomorrow.

Keller spent nearly two decades as head physician at Phillips Academy in Andover.

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« Reply #8 on: September 19, 2012, 11:12:11 AM »

http://www.boston.com/whitecoatnotes/2012/09/18/hearing-scheduled-friday-detainment-richard-keller/1jqmqvb0em9kUs43p7qz0L/story.html
Hearing scheduled Friday on detainment of Dr. Richard Keller
September 18, 2012

Dr. Richard Keller, the pediatric endocrinologist and former medical director of Phillips Academy in Andover, is scheduled to appear in court Friday at 10 a.m. for a hearing on whether he should be detained until trial.

Keller, 56, was arrested last week on charges of receiving child pornography. Authorities found at least 60 DVDS and more than 500 sexually explicit photographs during a search of his Andover home. Federal investigators found Keller’s name and addresses in the customer database of a foreign company that produced child pornography, along with records of $2,695 in purchases, according to an affidavit filed in federal court.
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Keller had been scheduled to be in court Wednesday. He has retained attorney Max Stern of the firm Stern, Shapiro, Weissberg & Garin in Boston. Stern did not immediately return calls to his office Monday and Tuesday.
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« Reply #9 on: September 23, 2012, 10:48:43 AM »

http://www.andovertownsman.com/local/x2076996656/Feds-to-fight-bail-for-pediatrician-facing-child-porn-charges
Feds to fight bail for pediatrician facing child porn charges
September 20, 2012

An Andover pediatrician charged with receiving child pornography is expected to learn tomorrow, Friday, if he will remain behind bars while he awaits an indictment.

Richard Keller, 56, of 10 Cyr Circle, was arrested last Thursday after federal agents raided his home and removed from a bedroom more than 500 high-gloss photos and at least 60 to 100 DVDs of child pornography, as well as computers, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
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"The government has told the court that we intend to seek detention. He is considered a danger," said Christina DiIorio-Sterling, spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney. "Essentially, the prosecutor told the court this was a behavior he exhibited for decades."

If Keller contests being held in prison while he awaits an indictment that could take up to 30 days, the government will offer evidence in open court it believes proves Keller is a danger to society, said DiIorio-Sterling.

CRIMINAL COMPLAINT

Law enforcement agents became aware of Keller while investigating a movie production company located outside the United States that operates a website selling DVDs and streaming videos, most of which '"feature young minor boys," according to an affidavit in support of the criminal complaint against Keller. After reviewing records in the company's database, officials saw that Keller had made 19 orders between July 2009 and January 2011.
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« Reply #10 on: September 23, 2012, 10:51:52 AM »

See my bold:  The old hide it under the mattress trick.   


http://www.eagletribune.com/latestnews/x964640161/Movie-house-probe-led-to-2-Andover-child-porn-arrests
Movie house probe led to 2 Andover child porn arrests
September 22, 2012

ANDOVER —The arrest of a Colonial Drive man on charges of child pornography Thursday was part of the same investigation into a foreign movie production company that led to last week’s high-profile arrest of Dr. Richard Keller, a pediatrician and former medical director at Phillips Academy.

William S. Thomas, 64, of A4 Colonial Drive Apt. 1, was arrested during a raid of his condominium on charges of receipt of child pornography.

U.S. Postal Inspectors seized over 200 DVDs and CDs from his bedroom containing child pornography, according to an affidavit filed by Scott Kelley, a U.S. Postal Inspector.

During the raid, Thomas admitted to purchasing at least one of the videos from the company, Kelley wrote. According to the affidavit, a DVD titled “Raw Rewind Vol. 2” was found under his mattress.
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Christina DiIorio-Sterling, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston said besides the investigation into the foreign company the Thomas and Keller cases are unrelated.

The investigation leading to both arrests began in October 2010, when the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and foreign law enforcement started looking into an unidentified foreign movie production company that operated a website offering DVDs and streaming videos featuring young minor boys, according to the affidavit.

Authorities received billing information from both Thomas and Keller during a search of the company’s premises in May 2011, in which hundreds of DVDs, computers and business records were seized, according to court documents.

The company was the subject of more than 20 complaints to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s Cyber TipLine regarding the sale of child pornography.
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« Reply #11 on: September 23, 2012, 10:56:22 AM »

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/22/us/former-andover-doctor-in-child-porn-case-to-remain-in-jail.html?_r=0
Former Prep School Doctor in Child Pornography Case to Remain in Jail
September 21, 2012

BOSTON — In a court appearance on Friday, Dr. Richard Keller, the former medical director at a prestigious Massachusetts prep school and a part-time pediatrician at Boston Children’s Hospital, agreed to remain in jail pending a trial on a single federal count of receiving child pornography. He has been in jail since his arrest on Sept. 13.

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 For his brief appearance on Friday in Boston’s federal court, Dr. Keller arrived looking somewhat disheveled, with a faded brown T-shirt peeking out beneath his prison-issue uniform. He waived a probable-cause hearing and a detention hearing on the charge against him, averting the need for prosecutors to immediately reveal further details.

But what is known so far about the allegations against him has raised pointed questions at the prominent institutions on Dr. Keller’s résumé — especially at Phillips, the exclusive boarding school commonly known as Andover, where it is located.
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 Ms. Hildebrand and other alumni recalled that Dr. Keller would invite students to join him for meals or late-night food runs, but she said that was commonplace among faculty, some of whom lived on the campus.

“There’s been a lot of chatter on Facebook, most people being really surprised and some people feeling betrayed because he was a pretty active member of the campus community,” Ms. Hildebrand said. “It was honestly quite shocking.”

The arrest has also raised questions among alumni and parents about the four reprimands Dr. Keller received during his tenure at the school, which were detailed in a statement released last week by the head of Phillips Academy, John Palfrey.

According to Mr. Palfrey’s statement, Dr. Keller used a school computer to access pornography involving adults in 1999; in 2002, he was reprimanded for showing an “inappropriate cartoon” to students. He was placed on administrative probation in 2009 for “poor management and poor judgment,” and in 2011 he “sent an inappropriate voice-mail message to a colleague.”

Comments about the arrest on the Web site of The Phillipian, Andover’s student newspaper, expressed consternation that Dr. Keller had not been dismissed earlier, based on those incidents, and called for further investigation.
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Prosecutors are expected to deliver a formal indictment within the next few weeks. Dr. Keller could face up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.


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« Reply #12 on: September 23, 2012, 10:58:25 AM »

http://www.boston.com/whitecoatnotes/2012/09/19/richard-keller-signs-agreement-stop-practicing-medicine/tl7JEDKLdK67pvSkqTu82O/story.html
Dr. Richard Keller signs agreement to stop practicing medicine
September 19, 2012

Dr. Richard Keller, a pediatric endocrinologist who was charged last week with receiving child pornography, signed an agreement with the state medical board Wednesday to stop practicing medicine.

Keller agreed that he would not treat patients indefinitely, until the board takes further action on his case. Keller, who is being held in jail, is scheduled for a federal court detention hearing on Friday.

Voluntary agreements “are the way the board makes sure the public is protected while giving itself time to complete an investigation,’’ said Russell Aims, spokesman for the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine, which licenses doctors. If Keller had not signed the agreement, the board could have suspended his license.
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Keller has been placed on leave from his position as a part-time Harvard Medical School instructor and as a part-time doctor at the hospital, where he saw patients with diabetes, growth disorders, and other conditions, mostly at satellite locations.

He also was involved for nearly three decades with Camp Joslin in Charlton, a camp for boys with diabetes, and served at a summer camp in the Berkshires.

Keller is required to provide the agreement within 24 hours to any hospital, nursing home, clinic, or other licensed facility in which he has practiced medicine, as well as to various other organizations and federal agencies.
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« Reply #13 on: September 26, 2012, 11:09:21 PM »

http://www.eagletribune.com/local/x240469320/N-H-suspends-Andover-doctors-license-to-practice-medicine
N.H. suspends Andover doctor's license to practice medicine
September 26, 2012

Keller or his attorney was called to appear at a hearing in Concord, N.H., Oct. 3 on whether the doctor’s license will remain suspended throughout the ongoing federal investigation. While Keller was licensed in New Hampshire, state health officials said they did not have any record of him practicing there.

“The Board’s action is in response to Dr. Keller’s September 13, 2012, arrest on federal charges of receiving child pornography,” Sarah T. Blodgett, a New Hampshire Assistant Attorney General, said yesterday in a statement. “On September 20, 2012, the Board issued an Emergency Suspension and Notice of Hearing. The order suspended Dr. Keller’s license effective immediately.”

Penny Taylor, an administrator with the New Hampshire Board of Health, said that while Keller had a license to practice in New Hampshire, the board did not have information suggesting that he ever did. She said getting a license in another state — Keller lives in Andover and practices in Boston — is not uncommon and completely at the discretion of the doctor. Sometimes doctors who live near state borders will acquire licenses in neighboring states.

Board of Medicine member Mark Sullivan has recused himself from the proceeding. Taylor said board members do not have to explain why they recuse themselves, and she did not have information as to why he did.

Keller, 56, voluntarily has surrendered his Massachusetts medical license, while the state’s medical board conducts its own investigation. He worked as a pediatric endocrinologist at Boston Children’s Hospital and a pediatrics instructor at Harvard Medical School, but now is on administrative leave from both institutions.
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Penny Taylor, an administrator with the New Hampshire Board of Health, said that while Keller had a license to practice in New Hampshire, the board did not have information suggesting that he ever did. She said getting a license in another state — Keller lives in Andover and practices in Boston — is not uncommon and completely at the discretion of the doctor. Sometimes doctors who live near state borders will acquire licenses in neighboring states.

Board of Medicine member Mark Sullivan has recused himself from the proceeding. Taylor said board members do not have to explain why they recuse themselves, and she did not have information as to why he did.

Keller, 56, voluntarily has surrendered his Massachusetts medical license, while the state’s medical board conducts its own investigation. He worked as a pediatric endocrinologist at Boston Children’s Hospital and a pediatrics instructor at Harvard Medical School, but now is on administrative leave from both institutions.

He also worked as the medical director at Phillips Academy for 19 years, but the school declined to renew his contract in 2011.
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« Reply #14 on: October 01, 2012, 08:52:00 AM »

http://www.boston.com/whitecoatnotes/2012/09/27/jewish-big-brothers-big-sisters-greater-boston-notifies-families-that-doctor-accused-receiving-child-porn-was-volunteer/UbCZTS5jsSFUcruXZzW4jJ/story.html
Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Boston notified families that doctor accused of receiving child porn was volunteer
September 27, 2012

Dr. Richard Keller, the former medical director at Phillips Academy in Andover who is accused of receiving child pornography, was a volunteer with Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Boston for 17 years, a leader of that program said Thursday.

Chief Executive Harvey Lowell said in a statement that Keller was a big brother from 1986 to 2003. During that time, he was paired with five “little brothers,” a spokeswoman for the group said.


“We have been in touch with the former little brothers and there have been no allegations of any wrongdoing,” Lowell said.
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http://www.necn.com/09/27/12/New-details-emerge-about-Mass-doctor-acc/landing.html?blockID=780403&feedID=11106
New details emerge about Mass. doctor accused in child porn case
September 27, 2012

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« Reply #15 on: October 04, 2012, 10:25:11 AM »

So many more victims!
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