Richard Keller, Mass. pediatrician, arrested on child pornography charges

By: Crimesider Staff
Topics: Daily Blotter

Dr. Richard Keller

/ CBS Boston

(CBS/AP) BOSTON - Richard Keller, a pediatrician facing federal child pornography charges, has also been associated with two Massachusetts summer camps for children.

Keller, the former medical director of Phillips Academy in Andover and a Boston Children's Hospital endocrinologist, was arrested last week.

Federal prosecutors allege the 56-year-old Keller purchased more than 50 DVDs of child pornography online. During a search of his home, authorities say they found more than 500 photographs and 60 to 100 DVDs of child pornography.

Keller was involved for nearly three decades with Camp Joslin in Charlton, a camp for boys with diabetes, and also served at and Camp Mah-Kee-Nac in Lenox.

Spokespeople for both camps tell The Boston Globe they are not aware of any complaints against Keller. However, CBS Boston reports that according to Phillips Academy head, John Palfrey, Keller was reprimanded by Phillips Academy in 1999 for using a school computer to access adult pornography. Palfrey also told the station that Keller showed "an inappropriate cartoon" to students in 2002 and left "an inappropriate voice-mail message to a colleague at the school" in 2010.

Keller is scheduled to be in court Wednesday.

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by samXXkiley September 17, 2012 4:43 PM EDT: coucou,
yet another sex maniac, if we judge by places where he worked, his victims must be many, future will tell.
"au revoir"; Reply to this comment


by gryphon501 September 17, 2012 4:25 PM EDT: wow, really surprising- a pediatrician is a pedophile. I was molested by a pediatrician as a toddler. Ladies, don't allow your child to be examined without you.; Reply to this comment


by Earlsoutham September 17, 2012 10:40 AM EDT: A high number of doctors at Boston Children's have been busted for either molesting kids or viewing porn. The list includes well known pediatrician Mel Levine; child psychiatrist Donald Lee Rife, Nobel Prize Winner Carleton Gajdusek and Dr. William Ayres, a former President of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,

As the Globe reported in a front page story in 2010, the Boston Police Crimes Against Children Unit are asking that any vicitms of Dr. William Ayres, a child psychiatrist who worked at Boston Children's Hospital from 1959-1963 to contact them.

Ayres was arrested in San Mateo California for molesting many young boys in therapy sessions.

In Boston contact Sgt. Detective Robin DeMarco, who is the head of the Boston Police Department's Crimes Against Children Unit. Anyone with any information about Ayres molesting boys in Boston should contact Demarco.

Email: DemarcoR.bpd@cityofboston.gov.; Reply to this comment