CINCINNATI — A former Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center doctor is facing multiple federal charges related to child pornography, said Dominick S. Gerace II, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio.

Howard M. Saal, a former geneticist and dysmorphologist at Cincinnati Children's, was in federal court Tuesday for charges of transporting and possessing child porn, Gerace said.

According to court documents, a Hamilton County Sheriff's Office detective received a cyber tip regarding searches for child pornography that originated from Saal's IP address. That cyber tip included an image of two young girls engaging in sexual conduct.

Gerace said to date, as part of their ongoing review of the 73-year-old's electronic devices, the FBI has found more than 153,000 images and 470

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