Former St. Louis Area Pediatrician Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Exchanging Prescriptions for Sex Acts
Craig Spiegel received a lengthy prison term for trading pain pills for sex acts and cash from vulnerable patients over nearly a decade.
Robert Patrick
ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge John A. Ross on Tuesday sentenced a former St. Louis County, Missouri, pediatrician to 20 years in prison for prescribing pain pills and other controlled substances in exchange for sex acts, nude photos, or cash.From at least 2014 through May of 2023, Craig A. Spiegel, now 70, exploited his position to obtain cash, sexual acts or sexual photographs from at least 19 patients, many of whom he began treating as children. Spiegel illegally distributed an “...
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