{"id":288139,"date":"2026-05-28T22:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T22:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/288139\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T22:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T22:06:09","slug":"ex-doctor-pleads-no-contest-in-broward-child-sexual-abuse-material-case-records-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/288139\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-doctor pleads no contest in Broward child sexual abuse material case, records show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 28, 2026 at 5:34 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4WAJDX7DVJG6DANTUZ7PKCAGGY.jpg\"  width=\"720\" height=\"405\"\/>David Rerko (BSO) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2024\/09\/13\/broward-anesthesiologist-accused-of-uploading-child-sexual-abuse-images-videos\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2024\/09\/13\/broward-anesthesiologist-accused-of-uploading-child-sexual-abuse-images-videos\/\">former anesthesiologist<\/a> pleaded no contest Wednesday to multiple charges after authorities said he sent himself photos and videos of children being sexually abused, court documents show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Records show Dr. David Rerko, 63, of Fort Lauderdale, is set to be sentenced in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rerko, then 61 and living in Lighthouse Point, was working on behalf of a \u201cthird-party contractor\u201d at Broward Health North at the time of his September 2024 arrest. After his arrest, hospital officials said they revoked his privileges and state records show he later surrendered his medical license.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">BSO detectives said an online tip from Yahoo revealed that Rerko emailed himself 122 files of child sexual abuse material and 117 files described as \u201cchild erotica.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said at the bottom of every email was a signature, \u201cDavid Rerko, MD,\u201d and said the photos and videos depicted girls between the ages of 8 and 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Broward court records show his attorneys asked for a downward departure in his sentencing in March, stating that Rerko suffers from an unspecified \u201cmental disorder\u201d and said the former physician committed the offense in an \u201cunsophisticated manner\u201d and was an \u201cisolated incident\u201d for which he has \u201cshown remorse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Documents show he\u2019s set to be sentenced on July 8.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Chris Gothner\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3be3b5ed-fb4b-43ce-8b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Chris Gothner <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 28, 2026 at 5:34 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandDavid Rerko (BSO) FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 A former anesthesiologist pleaded no&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-288139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}