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40-Yr-Old Indian Doctor Arun Aggarwal Sentenced In US For Sex Offences

IANS, 04 Jan, 2018 12:02 PM
    An Indian doctor has been sentenced to 10 months behind bars in the US for groping two teenage female patients and faces deportation to India after the completion of his jail term.
     
     
    Arun Aggarwal, 40, was sentenced on Thursday after pleading guilty to four counts of gross sexual imposition.
     
     
    Aggarwal, formerly a doctor at Dayton Children's Hospital in Ohio, inappropriately touched two teens during medical examination between 2013 and 2015, the government attorney said.
     
     
    Designated as a Tier I sex offender, Aggarwal was arrested when he was allegedly trying to flee the country.
     
     
    In a statement, the Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Leon Daidone alleged that the local hospital did not report the incident to the police.
     
     
    Aggarwal now faces deportation to India.

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