Three women say a Michigan doctor secretly filmed them in the swim school locker room

Three young women have filed a lawsuit against a Detroit-area doctor, alleging he used hidden cameras to film them naked in the locker room of a private swimming school where he brought his young sons for lessons.

The three, who are also suing the Goldfish Swim School in Rochester, Michigan for unspecified damages, appear to be Dr.’s first alleged victims. Oumair Aejaz who have filed a civil lawsuit against the doctor, who is currently in prison and accused of filming himself. molesting a 6-year-old child and using hidden cameras to capture women and children.

And it probably won’t be the last.

“As more evidence comes to light in this disturbing case, we expect even more individuals will join the lawsuit against Dr. Oumair Aejaz and Goldfish Swim,” said Megan Bonanni, an attorney representing the three women identified anonymously as Jane Does 1, 2 and 3.

Aejaz, 40, is suspected of secretly recording hundreds of other people without their consent and of filming himself sexually assaulting unconscious hospital patients, Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said at a news conference in August.

“This person is possibly one of the worst I have ever seen,” Bouchard said at the time. “Because there is no specific category. It’s not just children, it’s not just women, it’s not just men. It goes from a 2 year old to an adult woman. The victimization is so broad and the perversion so great that we are only now beginning to wrap our arms around it.”

In August, Aejaz was charged with 10 countsincluding one count of sexual abuse of a child, one count of using a computer to create and/or reproduce child sexual abuse material, and four counts of capturing or recording children under the age of 18 and two women while they were naked.

And earlier this month the doctor arrived hit with 17 new felony charges of videotaping himself molesting a six-year-old child at least six times in 2023 and this year. If convicted on the two most serious charges of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, he faces a prison sentence of 25 years to life.

“We know there are additional victims and we ask anyone with information to contact the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office,” said District Attorney Karen McDonald. said in a statement earlier this month. Aejaz’s lawyer, Marielle Lehmandid not respond to a request for comment on this new lawsuit.

Police said Aejaz, originally from India, had been working in the US on a visa since arriving in 2011. Aejaz, an internal medicine specialist, completed his residency at Detroit Sinai Grace Hospital before moving to Dawson, Alabama. He returned to Oakland County in 2018.

The three Jane Does suing Aejaz and the swim school said they were unaware their privacy had been violated until they were notified by investigators and asked to confirm that the footage allegedly captured by the cameras the doctor were recorded were theirs, the court papers state. One of the women may have been a minor at the time of the alleged incidents.

They said the swim school had failed to protect them from a suspected predator by insisting they change in an open area instead of providing them with a private changing area.

“Goldfish failed in its fundamental duties and obligations to protect them from such harm,” said the lawsuit, which was filed in Oakland County Circuit Court.

“We can’t comment on this at this time,” said a woman who identified herself as the manager of Goldfish Swim School in Rochester when contacted by NBC News on Wednesday.

Aejaz, who lives about two miles south of the swim school in Rochester Hills, Michigan, is being held on $2 million bond.

Acting on a tip from Aejaz’s wifePolice arrethe doctor asked about two weeks after raiding his home on August 8 and seizing six computers, four cellphones and 15 external storage devices.

Investigators alleged that Aejaz allegedly used secret cameras to record children as young as two years old and women of all ages recovering from surgeries at the hospitals where he had worked for at least six years.

Aejaz supposedly posted the cameras in hospital dressing rooms, closets, bathrooms and private rooms. Police also alleged he placed cameras in the swimming club’s locker room.

The doctor had privileges at Henry Ford Macomb Hospital in Clinton Township and Ascension Genesys Hospital in Grand Blanc Township. Both hospitals work together with researchers.

“Due to the length of time he has been involved in this activity and the large amounts of storage space we have in our possession, we believe there is clearly much more to be discovered,” Bouchard said after Aejaz was arrested.