Dr Raza Laskar built up a sickening online library and even filmed sex acts with a 15-year-old boy in a hotel room
A ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ doctor who advertised for ‘slaves’ on websites is facing jail after he admitted a catalogue of child sex offences.
Dr Raza Laskar, a junior paediatric doctor who worked at hospitals across Greater Manchester, was found to have built-up a sickening online library of around 1.2m indecent images.
He also admitted meeting a 15-year-old boy in a hotel and filming sex acts.
Police said 12 boys aged under-16 discovered to be victims have been offered counselling, but that figure doesn’t include those shown in the many thousands of indecent images found on his computers and phones.
The victims were not hospital patients.
Married Laskar, 32, pleaded guilty to a total of 31 charges, the Manchester Evening News reports.
They included sexual activity with a child, causing or inciting a child to engage in a sexual act, voyeurism and making indecent photographs of a child.
Police said Laskar lived ‘two lives’ and revealed that he posted advertisements online to entice others saying ‘30-year-old male wanting slaves’.
Det Insp Theresa Carter issued a plea to parents over the ‘dark side’ of the internet and said the scale of Laskar’s offending shocked detectives.
She said: “Like Jekyll and Hyde, Laskar is vastly different in moral character depending on the situation, going from caring for and treating children to deliberately targeting, grooming and abusing them.
"It is so important, in this digital age where even young school children have the internet in the palm of their hand that they know about the dark side of the web.”
Laskar was arrested in April after the National Crime Agency alerted GMP to 1,605 files showing indecent images of children that had been made available on a file sharing site.
The IP address was traced to Laskar’s house.
Computers and devices were seized and examined.
In addition to the 1.2m images, hundreds of chat logs were reviewed and videos recovered that led to officers identifying other victims Laskar had groomed and incited to engage in sexual activity online.
Children were traced through their usernames, emails and IP addresses.
Some victims were in the UK but others were elsewhere around the world and Laskar also used Skype to communicate with them.
Two of the 31 charges he pleaded guilty to were also possessing an extreme pornographic image of an animal and publishing an obscene article relating to an animal.
Judge Peter Lakin said he faces a ‘substantial custodial sentence’.
There was no bail application and Laskar of Ormonde Street, Ashton-under-Lyne, Tameside, will be sentenced on January 9 next year.
