30 Years for Pervert 'Prophet' Pediatrician Convicted of Sex Abusing Young Patients | Crime Alert 6AM 12.19.25
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🗓️ 19 December 2025
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Ernesto Cesar Torres, 74, sentenced for sexually abusing an 11-year-old patient and prosecutors say dozens more victims have come forward. A jury reached a partial verdict in connection with Maya Hernandez, a California mother who left her son inside a hot car while she visited a Bakersfield spa. Sydney Sumner reports.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Crime Alert, hourly update. Breaking Crime News Now. |
| 0:08.1 | A former Maryland pediatrician who claimed demonic entities made his victims lie about sex abuse. |
| 0:16.6 | Now, he's sentenced. |
| 0:18.5 | One recent 11-year-old victim reports to her mom, 74-year-old Ernesto Cesar Torres, molested her |
| 0:25.2 | during a pediatric exam. |
| 0:27.7 | Authorities then find at least 24 victims, all very young female patients from Torres medical |
| 0:35.3 | practice. |
| 0:36.0 | I'm Sidney Sumner. |
| 0:40.4 | Judge William Nicholas sentenced 74-year-old Torres of Friedrich, Maryland to 30 years for sexual abuse of a minor in three counts of third-degree |
| 0:45.8 | sex offense. On May 7, 2019, Friedrich Police received a call from the mother of an 11-year-old |
| 0:52.5 | victim to report that her child had been |
| 0:54.7 | sexually abused by Torres during a pediatric exam in his office. The mother told police she brought |
| 1:00.4 | her child to Torres to treat a mild skin condition, but that her child said Torres made her |
| 1:05.2 | uncomfortable by placing his hand down her pants and touching her down there. In addition, |
| 1:10.2 | the child described Torres rubbing her stomach repeatedly and touching her down there. In addition, the child described Torres |
| 1:11.5 | rubbing her stomach repeatedly and kissing her. FPD contacted Child Protective Services |
| 1:17.0 | and the Child Advocacy Center who conducted a forensic interview with the victim. Torres |
| 1:21.8 | was subsequently arrested at his medical practice. After the initial allegation, a judge |
| 1:26.7 | allowed the pediatrician to continue |
| 1:28.4 | seeing patients, but he later agreed to stop practicing medicine as part of the terms of his |
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