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Who is Ruepert Don Bryan? Alabama ex-doctor, 85, convicted of sex abuse and making child porn as tape resurfaces

Ruepert Don Bryan, a former ear, nose, and throat physician in Alabaster, was convicted Wednesday after a three-day trial on charges of first-degree sex abuse and three counts of producing child pornography
UPDATED MAR 12, 2021
Ruepert Don Bryan, 85, a former ear, nose, and throat physician in Alabaster, Alabama, was convicted Wednesday (Shelby County Jail)
Ruepert Don Bryan, 85, a former ear, nose, and throat physician in Alabaster, Alabama, was convicted Wednesday (Shelby County Jail)

SHELBY COUNTY, ALABAMA: An 85-year-old former physician in Alabama has reportedly been convicted on child sex abuse and child porn charges. Ruepert Don Bryan, a former ear, nose, and throat physician in Alabaster, was convicted Wednesday after a three-day trial on charges of first-degree sex abuse and three counts of producing child pornography, Shelby County District Attorney Jill Lee revealed.

In June 2016, Shelby County Sheriff's officials issued a plea for information as they released photos of a then-unidentified man who was a suspect “in a crime that would shock any member of our community.” “If this person is still alive, he is a threat to our communities,” the sheriff’s office stated in a release that day.

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They later revealed that Bryan, who lived in Calera at the time of his arrest, had become the prime suspect after a member of the community came forward with "an abandoned videotape," according to Birmingham Real-Time News.

The videotape contained images of at least one juvenile engaging in sexual activity, according to court records in the case. It later emerged that the video was produced in 2002 and that Bryan had also allegedly sexually abused at least one juvenile between May and August 2003, per his arrest warrant.

Prosecutors presented evidence during the trial, including several recordings Bryan made of his child sexual abuse. “The jury also heard from multiple witnesses who were victimized by Bryan when they were children before the allegations came to light and he was brought to justice,’' Lee said.

Sheriff’s investigators Robert Rodriguez and Heather Parramore led the investigation, while assistant district attorneys Daniel McBrayer and Ben Fuller prosecuted the case, per Birmingham Real-Time News.

“We’re grateful for the victims who stepped forward to share their stories of abuse. It’s only through them that this day has finally arrived," McBrayer said in a statement. “We also appreciate the members of the public who answered the sheriff’s call to help identify this abuser who was only a face on a video when the investigation first began.”

Circuit Judge Bill Bostick accepted the jury’s decision to convict Bryan and ordered that he be held without bond. Since his 2016 arrest, Bryan has been remanded in custody in the Shelby County Jail on a $500,000 bond.

District Attorney Lee added, “I’m hopeful that this verdict will bring some measure of closure to the multiple children he abused. Further, I’m grateful for the hard work and thorough investigation by the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office. We wouldn’t be here without them.”

Ruepert Don Bryan is scheduled to be sentenced on April 5.

Last month, MEAWW reported how California police arrested a 33-year-old pediatrician on Tuesday, February 9, on suspicion of attempted lewd acts with a minor. He worked at Stanford Health’s Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto. 

Dr. Dylan O’Connor was arrested in the 1800 block of El Camino Real in Redwood City and was charged for sending explicit material to a juvenile, and traveling to meet a minor for lewd purposes, which are both felonies, police said. The state medical board’s website showed no record of complaints or administrative actions against him.

Investigators said in a news release that they had received a tip from San Jose Police Department’s Internet Crimes Against Children unit about a possible sex crime involving a juvenile in their city. While monitoring their suspect, police said that they found he had sent “personal photographs of a pornographic nature".

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