Crime
Sujan Kayastha, 42, of Dartmouth was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
A former doctor at St. Luke’s Hospital in New Bedford was convicted Tuesday of raping a teenage boy in 2018, officials announced.
A jury in Fall River Superior Court found Sujan Kayastha, 42, of Dartmouth guilty on the charges of rape of a child aggravated by age difference, electronic enticement of a child for commercial sex, possession of child pornography, posing a child in the nude, and sending obscene matter to a child, according to the Bristol County District Attorney’s office.
Prosecutors said Kayastha met the boy, who was 14 at the time, online in September 2018 and later exchanged nude photographs and videos with the teen. In December 2018, the former doctor drove the boy, who lived in a group home in Attleboro, to a motel in Seekonk where he paid the teen $200 to engage in a sex act.
According to the DA’s office, a staff member at the boy’s group home contacted police when they suspected the teenager was being sexually exploited.
“The defendant was convicted of extremely disturbing and demented conduct involving a very vulnerable fourteen-year-old boy,” Bristol District Attorney Thomas Quinn said in a statement. “He preyed on the victim by exchanging pornographic pictures that resulted in the defendant raping the victim in a motel. The sentence imposed by the court was well deserved.”
Kayastha was sentenced immediately after his conviction to serve 12 years in a state prison, followed by five years of supervised probation upon his release.
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