Seventy-One-year old Dr. Bruce Hensel, a former chief on-air medical correspondent for NBC, was arrested in 2019 after it was revealed that he texted his nine-year-old daughter’s friend asking her for sexual photos. On Monday, Hensel was sentenced to two years probation for asking the young girl to send him nude photos.
The victim’s father confronted Hensel in court Monday, saying, “Dr. Bruce, you crossed the line and violated the vow of your profession, which is to cause no harm,”
Doctor Hensel pleaded no contest to the charges, including soliciting nude photos from a minor. He also apologized, repeating multiple times that the incident was a one-time occurrence, and said he was trying to understand his behavior,
“I’m terribly sorry for what happened. I’ve done everything I can to understand this isolated thing,” he said.

Hensel knew the young girl through a connection with her mother and had talked about financing a movie featuring the child. He wrote the girl in 2019, hoping to draw her trust and encourage her to take risks in exchange for becoming a star. The text has groomer overtones throughout,

“I have always been good special friends and you feel safe with me so I will protect you and get you something, They could maybe make you a star if you are willing to take some risks,” He wrote.

In 2022 NBC referred to Hensel as a previous employee but declined to say whether he had been fired or resigned from his position.

NBC is just the latest leftist news outlet employing pedophiles. CNN has also employed pedophiles.

Former CNN producer, John Griffin, a friend of Chris Cuomo, pleaded guilty in federal court in December after attempting to entice and coerce a 9-year-old girl to engage in sexual activity at his ski home in Vermont. Griffin worked for CNN for eight years before his arrest. He met a woman online during the summer of 2020 and persuaded her to bring herself and her 9-year-old daughter to meet him in person. Griffin paid to fly the woman and her daughter from Nevada to Boston, then drove them to his Ludlow, Vermont, for illegal sexual activity. The young girl said Griffin sexually assaulted her, court records show. Griffin allegedly paid $30,000 for a “mother-daughter weekend” with him and said he was “ashamed” of his behavior during his arrest. A federal indictment shows Griffin sought sexually submissive women and tried to gain access to their daughters, hoping to “train” young girls. The motion states that he told one parent he “had trained girls as young as seven years of age.” He is also accused of trying to entice minors over the internet.