Friday, June 19, 2015

Max Mehta, who fled US child sex predator charge, barred from practising medicine

Exclusive: radiologist who skipped bail then changed his name has his registration suspended after investigation by Australian watchdog

A radiologist who has been practising in Australia for several years after fleeing the US before he could face trial on child sex predator charges has had his medical registration suspended, following an investigation by Australia’s health regulator.

In October Guardian Australia revealed that Max Mehta had been charged in Dallas, Texas, in May 2004 for allegedly grooming a 15-year-old deaf girl for sex in an online chatroom. The girl was in fact a police officer posing as a child.

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