Crime & Safety
Children's Hospital Boston Pediatrician Indicted on Child Porn Charges
Dr. Richard Keller, who was arrested this past September on child porn charges, was indicted in federal court on Tuesday.
On Tuesday, a federal grand jury indicted Children's Hospital Boston physician Dr. Richard Keller on charges of receiving and possessing child pornography.
Keller, 56, was arrested back in September and charged with buying more than 50 sexually explicit films involving minors. During a search of his home in Andover, police said they found more than 500 photographs and between 60 and 100 DVDs, according to Fox News.
He is also accused of receiving child porn at the mailbox of his former position as the head pediatrician for Phillips Academy Andover.
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Keller was indicted on two counts of receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography.
He has agreed to be held without bail pending his trial, and has agreed not to practice medicine.
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