A former doctor at a Massachusetts hospital was convicted of raping a teenage boy.

Prosecutors said Sujan Kayastha, 42, met the boy, who was 14 at the time, online in September 2018 and later exchanged nude photographs and videos with the teen.

In December 2018, he drove the boy, who lived in a group home, to a motel where he paid the teen $200 to engage in a sex act, prosecutors said.

Former doctor at St. Luke’s Hospital convicted of child rape.

He targeted a 14 year old boy in a group home.

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Boston.com reports:

According to the DA’s office, a staff member at the boy’s group home contacted police when they suspected the teenager was being sexually exploited.

“The defendant was convicted of extremely disturbing and demented conduct involving a very vulnerable fourteen-year-old boy,” Bristol District Attorney Thomas Quinn said in a statement. “He preyed on the victim by exchanging pornographic pictures that resulted in the defendant raping the victim in a motel. The sentence imposed by the court was well deserved.”

Kayastha was sentenced immediately after his conviction to serve 12 years in a state prison, followed by five years of supervised probation upon his release.

A jury in Fall River Superior Court found Kayastha guilty of rape of a child aggravated by age difference, electronic enticement of a child for commercial sex, possession of child pornography, posing a child in the nude, and sending obscene matter to a child.

42-year-old former medical doctor at St. Luke’s Hospital in #NewBedford, Sujan Kayastha of #Dartmouth first met the victim, at the time a 14-year-old boy, in 2018 online and later exchanged nude photographs and videos with the child. Story:https://t.co/boiiEOuX7y

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Per WBSM:

Then on December 6, 2018, Kayastha drove to Attleboro, where he picked up the boy from the group home in which he lived. He then drove the boy to the Shangri-La Motel in Seekonk, where he paid the boy $200 to engage in a sex act with him, the D.A.’s Office said.

A staff member at the group home later reported suspected sexual exploitation of the boy to Attleboro Police, who then recovered online records including communications between Kayastha and the victim along with the nude photos and videos that were exchanged.

Kayastha admitted to having sex with the boy. He was later relieved of his duties by St. Luke’s Hospital.