CINCINNATI — A former doctor at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center is now facing a civil lawsuit from the parents of his former patients.

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

According to court documents, a Hamilton County Sheriff's Office detective received a cyber tip in February 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.

Agents found more than 153,000 images and 470 videos of child sexual abuse material on the 73-year-old's electronic devices. Some of the materials found involve victims as young as newborns.

Since the charges went public

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