ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. – An Oakland County mother did not hold back in her victim impact statement during the sentencing of a doctor accused of secretly recording and assaulting former patients and others.
Dr. Oumair Aejaz was sentenced Tuesday, Dec. 2, to 35-60 years in prison for multiple sexual assault and child porn charges. He is also required to register as a lifetime sex offender.
In October, Aejaz pleaded no contest to 31 counts of sexual misconduct involving victims ranging from adults to a child as young as two years old.
Aejaz did not speak at his sentencing due to his no-contest plea, but four women spoke before the judge made her decision.
‘You pissed off the wrong mom’
The last woman who spoke was a mother who recounted learning Aejaz had secretly filmed her and her then-toddler son in a swim-school changing room.
The file name was allegedly MLF_CLD_SWM_VID.
“MLF, meaning ‘mother I’d like to f***,’ CLD meaning child, as in my 2-year-old son, SWM as in we were in a changing room at the swim school after my son’s swim class and VID, meaning not just a picture, but a whole video that this waste of space kept categorized on his hard drive to go back and watch as many times as he wanted while he jacked off watching myself and my 2-year-old son change in the changing room,” she told the courtroom before confronting Aejaz directly.
“Stop looking at the ground, you coward. Look up and look me in the eyes. I address you because you had the audacity when you decided to wander in the swim school, turn on a camera, place it upward in a two foot space that was at the bottom of those changing rooms, and then sit there for God knows how long just recording the moms, parents, dads, aunts, uncles, grandmas with their kids as their kids were literally changing out of their wet swimsuits. Look at me when I speak to you,” she said, raising her voice. “Or you can stare at the ground and twiddle your thumbs because you know that you are done.”
The woman, who works with high school athletes, described the trauma of having to identify herself and her son, collapsing at work, feeling violated and alone.
“The day I had to identify myself and my son was the hardest day of my life,” she told the judge. “Although I keep other people’s kids safe, I realized in that moment that I could not keep my own son safe from an evil, sadistic, narcissistic pedophile.”
The mother said she experienced severe lasting harms, including PTSD, severe anxiety, panic attacks, nightmares, insomnia and a fear of the people in her own community.
“I was worried that every time I saw them, they might have a camera recording me, which I know is completely irrational, but my brain could not turn off,” she said of the people she interacted with nearly every day.
The mother also spoke about the impact on her family, especially her young son, who began having panic attacks triggered by her distress.
“He has no idea what’s going on,” she said. “I’ll do everything in my power to protect him until he can understand the severity of what happened.”
She concluded by telling the judge that she chose to speak publicly for the parents and children who did not feel safe coming forward, before urging the judge to give Aejaz the maximum sentence on all 31 counts.
“If he is given anything less, it will be an extreme injustice to those of us who have to live with this nightmare every day.”
Investigation into Aejaz
In August 2024, authorities launched an investigation into Aejaz following a tip-off from his wife.
A search warrant recovered six computers, four cell phones and 15 hard drives. One hard drive reportedly contained over 13,000 videos Aejaz recorded over the last six years.
The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office described one video as being a recording of “a woman is basically unconscious in a hospital bed and he’s violating her.”
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Aejaz, a contracted worker at two hospitals, was charged with various counts related to secretly recording individuals, including minors, at hospitals, a swim school and private homes.
Authorities said his wife contacted police after she discovered videos of women undressing and recordings of their young sons.