The Mississippi Attorney General's Office is seeking information in its investigation of a former University of Mississippi Medical Center children's doctor who was indicted on multiple sex-related charges.

According to a statement issued by Attorney General Lynn Fitch's Office, Dr. Mehul Dixit was indicted Aug. 11 by a Hinds County Grand Jury on 13 counts of gratification of lust of a vulnerable person and 12 counts of sexual battery of a vulnerable person.

Dixit is a former pediatric nephrologist — specialist in children's kidney diseases — at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.

The charges, according to the press release, stemmed from clinical visits that occurred between 2013 and 2023, following allegations that Dixit fondled teenage patients.

According to previous new

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