A federal judge today sentenced Dr. Albert Aiad-Toss, 53, of Canfield to 22 years in prison for engaging in sex acts with children ages 12 to 15 in 2019.

He pleaded guilty in February before Judge Pamela Barker in Cleveland to seven counts of sex trafficking and one count of producing child pornography.

He formerly worked for an outside company as an emergency room doctor at St. Elizabeth Boardman Hospital but was taken off the schedule when the allegations surfaced in 2019. His medical license was suspended in December 2019 because of the criminal charges, according to the Ohio Medical Board.

Federal investigators have said that Ashland police contacted the FBI after the mother of a 13-year-old girl told authorities she and other juveniles met Aiad-Toss on the social media app Snapchat and that he paid them for sex acts.