Aiad Toss

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal of former Canfield doctor Albert Aiad Toss, who was sentenced to 22 years in prison in June 2021 for sex trafficking minors in Ashland County.

The top court has denied without comment Aiad Toss’ request for a review of his sentencing, which Aiad Toss argued was “procedurally unreasonable” because the judge who sentenced him “failed to adequately explain (her) decision and substantively unreasonable because (she) ignored a (federal) mandate to impose a term no greater than necessary.”

Judge Pamela Barker in Cleveland oversaw his case.

Aiad Toss, 54, who is housed in the Federal Correctional Institution in Ashland, Ky., will also serve lifetime supervision and was ordered to pay a $50,000 fine and $40,800 special assessment.

According to Vindicator files, Aiad Toss engaged engaged in sex acts with children ages 12 to 15 in 2019. He pleaded guilty 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 said that Ashland police contacted the FBI after the mother of a 13-year-old girl told authorities the girl and other juveniles met Aiad Toss on the social media app Snapchat and that he paid them for sex acts.

Court documents state that on June 21, 2019, Aiad-Toss engaged in commercial sex acts with two of the victims in a motel in Fairlawn. On the way there, he stopped at an adult sex toy store and bought sex toys. Surveillance video showed that he entered the store on that date and that the victims were left in the car. They were not old enough to enter the store.

A search of the phone of one of the juveniles showed a payment of $500, another for $500 and another for $300. Investigators also found videos on the girl’s phone showing one of the victims simulating a sex act, a federal affidavit said.

He gave the children money, alcohol, new clothes and other items of value and budgeted $2,000 per month to be spent on obtaining young girls for sexual exploitation, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

erunyan@vindy.com