{"id":84052,"date":"2026-01-11T18:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T18:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/84052\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T18:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T18:35:08","slug":"doctor-wanted-for-raping-female-patient-in-philly-hospital-nearly-30-years-ago-fbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/84052\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor wanted for raping female patient in Philly hospital nearly 30 years ago: FBI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/screenshot-2026-01-11-122659.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">PHILADELPHIA &#8211; The FBI is asking for the public&#8217;s help to locate a sexual assault suspect who has remained at large for 29 years.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Zahidul Islam, 70, is wanted by the FBI for the sexual assault of a female patient at a major Philadelphia hospital on October 3, 1996.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The doctor allegedly gave the patient medication to make her &#8220;groggy,&#8221; then raped her in her hospital room, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The patient was recovering from surgery at the time.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">A federal warrant was issued for Islam&#8217;s arrest in Pennsylvania in 1997. State charges were also filed.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Islam&#8217;s whereabouts are still unknown nearly 30 years later.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Officials say he has ties to New York State and Montreal, Canada, and may be traveling with his wife, who is also a physician.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Anyone with information is asked to contact their local FBI office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from this article was provided by the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/us\/pa\/philadelphia\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime &amp; Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article PHILADELPHIA &#8211; The FBI is asking for the public&#8217;s help to locate a sexual assault suspect who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[592,139,539,69,71,70,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-84052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","13":"tag-philadelphia-news","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}