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The Charles Evans Whittaker Courthouse in Kansas City, Missouri.

An Overland Park pediatric physician has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison without the possibility of parole for producing child pornography, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Missouri.

The physician, Brian Aalbers, 51, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Brian C. Wimes. who also ordered Aalbers to serve supervised release for life following his incarceration.

Aalbers, a pediatric neurologist at Overland Park Regional Hospital, had pleaded guilty to using concealed video cameras to secretly record 13 child victims for the purpose of producing child pornography over a three-year period. Aalbers also had admitted that he was in possession of child pornography.

During the investigation, it was determined there was no evidence to indicate any current or former patients were victimized by Aalbers. To protect and maintain the privacy of Aalbers’ victims, no additional information regarding the victims will be released, the release said.

According to the plea agreement, Kansas City, Missouri, police officers investigated a report regarding concealed video cameras that had been found on Oct. 28, 2023. A witness later contacted officers to report that Aalbers was sending suicidal text messages. Lenexa police officers located Aalbers and took him to a local hospital to obtain voluntary mental health treatment. The hospital took possession of two laptop computers, two iPad tablets and a cellphone that were inside a backpack Aalbers brought with him when he entered the facility.

Investigators obtained search warrants for those devices, as well as other cameras and electronic devices owned by Aalbers. Investigators found more than 50,000 video files associated with the hidden video cameras used by Aalbers, including more than 1,000 videos that contained pornographic depictions of the 13 child victims.

Investigators also obtained a search warrant for Aalbers’ iCloud account, which contained 1,000 additional images and 163 additional videos of child pornography, which included videos of the identified child victims that had been produced by Aalbers.